Jens Kallmeyer
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HI there,
We finally bought an apartment here in Berlin, therefore I had to tear down my old Gorgnonian and NPS dominated130 gal semi-cube (click http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1121362.
The apartment is on the the fourth floor of a house built in 1920. The last time this place had seen any kind of renovation must have been somewhere in the late 40s or early 50s, so we knew from the very beginning that we need to get busy before we can move in. Several walls were ripped out, and roughly half of the apartment the support beams in the floor had to be reinforced or replaced because some previous repair jobs were done very badly. I used that opportunity to have the floor beams in the living room reinforced in order to be able to set up a large tank. The living room had an old oak floor, but it was in bad shape and the cost for carefully removing and removating every single piece would have been prohibitive. So all the old floor was ripped out
Then the construction guys put in new beams (14x10", 23 ft long) between the old ones. The beams had to be split lengthwise to get them up on the 4th floor. The main problem was that they could not use a crane because there is a large and protected tree right in front of our house. So the company brought in 10 more workers, placed them on the scaffolding of the neighboring house and lifted the beams one by one with a little pulley and lots of hands for support. The beams went in through the window, through one room into the corridor, further through bath and kitchen (the walls had been ripped out before), out of the kitchen window, then they could turn them around and get them into the living room. The guys hated me for that....
The last beam was a bit problematic, in order to get it in place they had to rip out another wall. As we have a lot of stucco on the ceiling, I was concerned that it might fall off when they take out the wall, but the construction guys worked very carefully and everything stayed on its place.
Finally the wall was out and the reinforcement was in
As soon as the reinforcement was done and the first layer of flooring (1.5" waterproof fibreboard) installed, I put a wall in to support the stucco.
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We finally bought an apartment here in Berlin, therefore I had to tear down my old Gorgnonian and NPS dominated130 gal semi-cube (click http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1121362.
The apartment is on the the fourth floor of a house built in 1920. The last time this place had seen any kind of renovation must have been somewhere in the late 40s or early 50s, so we knew from the very beginning that we need to get busy before we can move in. Several walls were ripped out, and roughly half of the apartment the support beams in the floor had to be reinforced or replaced because some previous repair jobs were done very badly. I used that opportunity to have the floor beams in the living room reinforced in order to be able to set up a large tank. The living room had an old oak floor, but it was in bad shape and the cost for carefully removing and removating every single piece would have been prohibitive. So all the old floor was ripped out
Then the construction guys put in new beams (14x10", 23 ft long) between the old ones. The beams had to be split lengthwise to get them up on the 4th floor. The main problem was that they could not use a crane because there is a large and protected tree right in front of our house. So the company brought in 10 more workers, placed them on the scaffolding of the neighboring house and lifted the beams one by one with a little pulley and lots of hands for support. The beams went in through the window, through one room into the corridor, further through bath and kitchen (the walls had been ripped out before), out of the kitchen window, then they could turn them around and get them into the living room. The guys hated me for that....
The last beam was a bit problematic, in order to get it in place they had to rip out another wall. As we have a lot of stucco on the ceiling, I was concerned that it might fall off when they take out the wall, but the construction guys worked very carefully and everything stayed on its place.
Finally the wall was out and the reinforcement was in
As soon as the reinforcement was done and the first layer of flooring (1.5" waterproof fibreboard) installed, I put a wall in to support the stucco.
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... i guess its gonna be place for some LPS
