Heavy Safe On Second Floor

I recently purchased a cabelas woodsman liberty revere 23 gun safe and would like to put it on the second floor.

Heavy safe on second floor.

The heaviest residential treadmills out there generally reach about 350 lbs though some like the peloton tread weigh up to 455 lbs. The safe weighs 1520lbs and is 5 8sf. Further you need to place it perpendicular to the floor beam as close as possible to the wall. Typical new home manufactured floor trusses only good for 10 pounds per square foot in a large room and maybe as much as 20 pounds per square foot in a small room assuming all visible walls have a matching support wall directly beneath including in the basement if you have such.

The house is finished in plaster which i think may be relevant to the discussion. Second the likelihood that you will actually hit a solid floor joist that corresponds to the holes that are predrilled into your safe is remote. If i round that comes out to a 6 square foot base and 600 lbs fully loaded which is about 100 sf. According to this mit lecture a.

Hardwood railing rooms user name. My husband who weighs around 220 would like to put a treadmill landice l7 top of the line in our second floor great room. You will want to find the safe support of the beams holding the loft up. The key is weight transfer directly to the foundation.

Hi we live in both levels of a very sturdy duplex built in 1929. That way if the wood floor deflects the joists will deflect together and share more of the load. So if you decide to increase the strength of the floor do it before you place the safe on the floor. It will sit in a solid.

But for the most part in a building that is structurally sound the floors should easily be able to take the weight of both a treadmill and the person on top of it. In addition a long duration of a sustained load on a wood floor can lead to permanent deflections in the wood which can increase over years. Hi i m considering the remote possibility of placing a heavy safe in a second floor closet. How heavy is too heavy for second story furniture.

So where should you put your safe on a raised or second floor. I could put a couple of floor jacks in there to further support the weight. Then there s the risk of damage or injury since you cannot determine where in your neighbor s ceiling electrical lines might run or where their lights or other fixtures are. That loads the floor at 260psf.