Too Much Wiegth In A Room Floor Falling Trhough

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Too much wiegth in a room floor falling trhough.

I m 19 and still in my parent s house not too much longer. Taking 1 room of 14 x 16 with a total of 224 square feet x 40 8 960 pounds equally distrubited throughout the room. There is no way the table weighs that much hence mrwilly s comment about the waterbed which when filled can easily eclipse a ton. Let s say a room s measurement is 10x10.

The rec room is the only room on the 2nd floor and contains attic access and a full bath. I can just see people pushing their chairs back from the dining room table falling backwards and hitting their heads on the floor. As an example consider a room with a floor area of 10 feet by 11 feet 2 inches built with no. Use a design value table to find the fb value for your floor joists.

And occupy 1 square foot. If the floor is designed properly it s designed with a fudge factor for weight and movement such that reasonable weights and movement are within the structural design criteria. And my room is full of heavy crap. 2755 lbs in the center of the room.

The lower floor hasn t seen my room yet. A design value table shows that the joists have an fb value of 1 495 and an e value of 1 900 000. I have never heard of someone falling through a floor or colapsing a floor. The most common floor issue in trailers are caused by water damage due to most trailers are built with a particle board subfloors and this type of sheeting does not hold up to moisture.

I m sorry i had to laugh at your comment. A 300 pound refrigerator of 33 x 36 36 pounds per square foot. We bought a leather sectional which includes a 3 seat couch with the two outside seats that recline a corner seat a two seat love seat which each seat reclines plus a matching recliner. My fiance and i are moving into our first apartment in two months.

Problem is i have a terrible phobia of falling through the floor due to having too much weight on the floor and the sectional plus all the. 1 grade 2 by 6 douglas fir larch joists spaced 16 inches on center. These days lots of folks weigh in excess of 300 lbs. 40 lbs sqf is what the floor of the room can hold that s industry standard.

I would suggest working room by room so that way you can complete one area before you tear up the other. That area is capable of then holding 4000 lbs 40x100. I guess maybe that qualifies as a dining room in new york. I m assuming that my apt will probably not be a ground floor unit consider a rack weighs 300 pounds 300 pounds of olympic weights 240 pounds of dumbells 60 pounds for a bench 150 pounds for a piece of cardio equipment.

The thing i can t help thinking about is that that will be a fair amount of weight spread over not too much area. It shouldn t be a problem unless the house is really really fricking old and or falling apart.