I know everyone asks this question and I've been researching a lot on this as well but wanted to see everyone's opinions before I installed my tank in my office and found out the hard way that the floor couldn't hold the weight. The building where my office is used to be a duplex before we renovated it, built sometime in the 1950's. I'm getting ready to install a 65(DT)/30(refuge) at my office. When my other tank cracked last week all of the water ran under the wall and I found out that one of my walls is not load bearing at all and appears to be floating as its hovering over the heating duct (left side of image below). I went into the crawl space to see the deal and clean out the water (good thing I did). I mapped out the supports as follows (walls marked in pencil/floor beams marked in blue/support beam marked in red/floor support under beam marked in green):
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I originally wanted to put the tank on the left wall (which is the floating one) - not a good choice. I can't put it in front of the window(ac and heater duct are there), and the outer wall runs parallel to the floor beams.
This leaves the wall at the bottom. My question is that if I put it there will the support beam running horizontal hold the weight? I'm pretty sure the bathroom used to have a tub in it so I would suspect that is why the beam doesn't sit at the wall but under where the old tub would have been. Here's the 4x4 post and 2x4 post holding the support beam:
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This is the x's that were put in about halfway along the floor beams:
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I originally wanted to put the tank on the left wall (which is the floating one) - not a good choice. I can't put it in front of the window(ac and heater duct are there), and the outer wall runs parallel to the floor beams.
This leaves the wall at the bottom. My question is that if I put it there will the support beam running horizontal hold the weight? I'm pretty sure the bathroom used to have a tub in it so I would suspect that is why the beam doesn't sit at the wall but under where the old tub would have been. Here's the 4x4 post and 2x4 post holding the support beam:
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This is the x's that were put in about halfway along the floor beams:
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