paulthomas
Premium Member
What baby? I just had my second and last kid. 
Actually, I was on the phone with the dealer today. I haven't decided on the overflow placement partially due to a revelation... the floor isn't joisted (that a word?) the way I thought. Instead of the joists running perpindicular to the length of the tank, they're parallel. So I was going to have a structural engineer over to draw up a plan to reinforce the floor from the basement. But I could probably get by with shoring the $h!t out of it with more 2" x 8"s and using several lally columns to brace everything.
Long story, not so short... Last night, my wife and I were in the basement. I ran over the plan with her for the umpteenth time, cuz she just loves it soooooooooooo much. She points out that the plaster board is nailed to the ceiling a way contrary to how I thought the joists were running. She saw this in two seconds. My friends and I, including an engineeer :rolleye1:, failed to see this.
Here's a pic of some of my monkey wrench handy work:
The steel beam is 5" x 10" and the tank will rest about half way on it (perpindicular) and on two 2" x 8" joists, length-wise.
I should start my build thread with this huh? That'd be real impessive. :rolleye1:
Actually, I was on the phone with the dealer today. I haven't decided on the overflow placement partially due to a revelation... the floor isn't joisted (that a word?) the way I thought. Instead of the joists running perpindicular to the length of the tank, they're parallel. So I was going to have a structural engineer over to draw up a plan to reinforce the floor from the basement. But I could probably get by with shoring the $h!t out of it with more 2" x 8"s and using several lally columns to brace everything.
Long story, not so short... Last night, my wife and I were in the basement. I ran over the plan with her for the umpteenth time, cuz she just loves it soooooooooooo much.
She points out that the plaster board is nailed to the ceiling a way contrary to how I thought the joists were running. She saw this in two seconds. My friends and I, including an engineeer :rolleye1:, failed to see this. Here's a pic of some of my monkey wrench handy work:
The steel beam is 5" x 10" and the tank will rest about half way on it (perpindicular) and on two 2" x 8" joists, length-wise.
I should start my build thread with this huh? That'd be real impessive. :rolleye1:
