Foundation support for a 90g? Need a bit of help...

[NeveSSL]

Hi all,

I have some friends of mine who recently bought a house. They also bought a 90g almost a year ago from Anu and are anxious to set it up!

They have a crawlspace and I told them we would need to check out reinforcing the floor before setting up their tank, just to be safe.

Do any of you guys have experience with that? I know avalanchwolf did it, but he's been gone for a while.

Does anyone know if they would even need it? I'm thinking it may not be a bad idea to reinforce something under there, I'm just not 100% up to snuff with it.

Any help is appreciated!

Brandon

 

[waynesworld]

Brandon call me some time I could help by explaining it to them but I can not do the work but I know some one that may for $

 

[NeveSSL]

Good to know, Wayne. I will give you a call.

Thanks!

Brandon

 

[Mikeyjer]

90 is fine to set up without issues.... I had my 90 in the condo and my house now without any issues.

 

[NeveSSL]

Good to know, Michael. Thanks for replying. Did you have them against load bearing walls or do you know?

I'm going to try to give you a call this evening, Wayne.

Brandon

 

[Mikeyjer]

At the condo I had it infront of staircase so not a load bearing wall...at my house now is located on a load bearing wall... I have my 55 in a bedroom upstairs and 75 freshwater in dining room, neither is on load bearing walls...

 

[NeveSSL]

Ok, cool.

I think we're going to double check the floor joists and make sure we're running across two or 3 of them and then go from there. I think it will probably be ok, though, after talking to Wayne.

Thanks!

Brandon

 

[TomStill]

I had a 90 in my apartment, which was on the 3rd floor without any issues. I now have it in my house which is a crawl space and I dont have any issues. I talked to my friend about it who is a stuctural engineer and he said that it was ok both times. just my opinion. hope it helps.

 

[mixer911]

FWIW Brandon, our 220 Stingray tank has no reinforcement under the joists. It is near a load bearing wall with 2x12 joists. On the 150 I just took some 4x4's ad cut them the height of the ground to subfloor and jammed them in between the joists and ground.

Is Kevin finally gonna setup that tank! I bet he's been jonesing...

 

[NeveSSL]

Thanks, TomStill!

:lol: Yeah, Rick, they're finally getting it up. They're both really excited to be getting it going. I'm thinking we may start filling it with water this weekend. Probably going to get them an RO/DI from BRS on this order, too.

Brandon

 

[NeveSSL]

Finally got under their house today. There's a floor support directly next to where they're putting the tank. Plus the floor joists look brand new and are all 2x10s... I think its gonna be fine.

Wednesday we start putting water in it! Can't wait!

Brandon