Can my floor take the weight

[xanthometopon]

Hi there

I am in the process of thinking of an upgrade and wanted peoples opinion on whether my floor can take the weight.

I recently put a new floor down, but before I put this down I reinforced the floor. I have a floating floor.

The tank weight will be on two beams 4x2 which support the floorboards. The span of the new tank (2.4m x 0.6m x 0.7m) would go accross 2 dwarf walls underneath the beams. During the reinforcment I put concrete blocks also under these beams so in effect it has 4 dwarf walls at 2foot intervals.

My question is will this support the new tank size???

I will also have a sump that will be a 6ft x 18inches by 18inches.

Many thanks for your help

 

[Lightsluvr]

Pls splain

Pls splain

Your floor (near the tank location) is supported by two 2x4's? And you put concrete blocks under the 2- 2x4's? My initial response is that 2x4's are good for tank stands, but can fail if used over a long span.
You didn't mention the gallon or litre capacity of your tanks, but I think the concrete blocks are notorious to split, and if it's not resting on something solid, it might just push it's way into subsoil?
I'm not familiar with the dwarf wall, so I guess I'm not much help to you.
Give more info or photos, and I'll bet some of the experts on here can answer your concerns...

LL

 

[atty]

It wpuld be worth getting a buider in, better safe that sorry., my 240g worped my floor which caused all sorts of trouble and i also had reonforcing. if you dont want a builder to check it out, just add supports where the legs of the stand will be.

 

[xanthometopon]

I will try and get some drawings to explain

cheers