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You’d need to put in supports to spread the load else you risk your ceiling sagging and/or cracking. Running some long planks underneath will help but you should really ask a pro as you haven’t included enough information here for us to give you a definitive answer. We really need photos to be certain.
My tank is dead center over an internal supporting wall, and we were advised that it was unsafe to have it any other way. Though our tank is bigger than yours.
I’m guessing you’re in oz talking kg and meters. If the centre of your tank sits 1/2m from the wall and the joist run the same way as that wall, you’d be sitting over the top of a joist more or less, just buy a 2.4m x 1.2m sheet of form ply 18/20mm cut it in 1/2 so it’s 2 1200mm square, put one on the other. If you slide the ply against the wall it will sit on 3 joist which will take that load easy.
If the joist run perpendicular to that wall just place that same ply over at least 2 joist and it will take the load.
P.S. I don’t believe you’d need to strengthen the floor because 300KGS isn’t really that much, but for the cost on a sheet of ply, I guess it’s better being safe than sorry
Thats 640 lbs us weight, it will be too much, put it on the ground floor
If you have the room you could go with 2 40 gallon tanks looping them together to spread the weight over a larger area.
First of all (if) you decide to install this tank on the second floor I would always put a drip pan under it. This is a galvanzied or stainless steel holding pan with a small drain outlet. It is designed to handle any leakage or overflow from this tank should it occur. Run a clear flexible hose from the drain down to the basement or crawl space or outside.
Now, this water is going to weigh in at 640 lbs. + the weight of the water tank itself. This is going to take more than a couple of added floor joist and a sheet of plywood.
You can imagine what would happen should you have a fire on the first floor and the fire weakens the upper floor joist. Your firefighters might not appreciate 800 lbs. coming down on them.
A number of things could weaken these joist such as termites, earth tremors,etc. They are a long shot but it’s not worth the worry over what could happen.
If you are determined to set this water tank upstairs, try to place it directly over a lower closet or other small framed area where there are walls directly under it.
Even on the first floor, you would need to make sure it has adequate support (more than just floor joist) under it.
Add the weight of the person(s) who may have to work on this water tank at some time and you are up to possibly 1/2 a US ton of dead weight in this area, that’s 1,000 lbs.
80 gallons of water at 8.35 ponds per gallon is 668 pounds plus the weight of the tank and associated piping. It will make a difference if you install a vertical tank with all the weight concentrated in a small area or a horizontal tank with the weight spread out over a larger area. You need to know what your safe floor load is (pounds per square foot) and that is determined by the existing floor and construction method used. Contact your local building inspector, architect or PE (civil engineering) for local building code requirements.
You are not giving enough information. You haveto find out what the present structure inside your floor is made of and what the distance is between them. The joist can be 2x 6 or 2 x 8 are they 16″ or 24″ center. Without knowing what you have now, the question can not really be answered. Can you put coloms or braces 4 x 6 underneat??