I have a century home, and am/was considering getting a 125 gallon aquarium for the dining room, but I'm not sure that the house/intended location of the aquarium can structurally support it.
The location of the the tank would be right next to the dining room wall that separates the dining room from the living room. I'm not sure if it's a loading bearing wall, but when I went down to the basement, I can see studs right below the wall.
The other issue is the tank is rectangular (tank), and the longer dimension of the tank would run parallel to the joists of the floor, and I heard it's better to have length of the tank run perpendicular to the joists to distribute the load across multiple joists as opposed to a single joist.
On top of that, it appears there's some sagging towards this particular wall on the dining room side. On the living room side, it's away from the wall, so I'm not sure what's happening here.
The aquarium itself would be 200 lbs, and 125 gallons of water is a little over 0.5 ton. So I'm probably at somewhere between 1500lbs-2000lbs of load in a concentrated area.
My gut is telling me this is a bad idea but just wanted to get some other opinions? Is there anything I can do to mitigate the issues? There's no where else in the house for a tank of that size, so I'd have to abandon the idea of getting something that large altogether if there's no mitigation.
The location of the the tank would be right next to the dining room wall that separates the dining room from the living room. I'm not sure if it's a loading bearing wall, but when I went down to the basement, I can see studs right below the wall.
The other issue is the tank is rectangular (tank), and the longer dimension of the tank would run parallel to the joists of the floor, and I heard it's better to have length of the tank run perpendicular to the joists to distribute the load across multiple joists as opposed to a single joist.
On top of that, it appears there's some sagging towards this particular wall on the dining room side. On the living room side, it's away from the wall, so I'm not sure what's happening here.
The aquarium itself would be 200 lbs, and 125 gallons of water is a little over 0.5 ton. So I'm probably at somewhere between 1500lbs-2000lbs of load in a concentrated area.
My gut is telling me this is a bad idea but just wanted to get some other opinions? Is there anything I can do to mitigate the issues? There's no where else in the house for a tank of that size, so I'd have to abandon the idea of getting something that large altogether if there's no mitigation.
