Is my floor going to collapse with a 160kg radiator on it?

[MademoiselelCaro]

Hello
I am replacing a wall radiator that I had and that was falling off my wall as it was too heavy for the thin wall (or probably not fixed properly inteh first place).
I thought I could put something that stands on feet instead of being fixed to the wall to solve the problem of the wall being too thin. So I started lookign at nice cast iron radiators. However it seems that the one I would get needs to be 170cm long to et enough BTUs and will weight in the 160kgs!... and I am now worried about it being to heavy
I live on the first floor of a typical victorian house and my floor is just made of old pine floorboards. The radiator will be along a wall, but I can't tell if it there is a beam below teh floor or not.

On the other hand 160 kilos on 2 feet that's 80kgs on each and I don't see why it wouldn't hold but I'd rather be sure, I'm wondering if I'm not being stupid here.... Many thanks for your help!
Carolyn

 

[big-all]

assuming its not an attic conversion you"beams[joists ]will be every 16"
your load is near the wall so only around 10% is loaded on the floor the rest assuming its parallel to the flooring goes to the wall

would you worry about 20 people on the floor during a party ??

 

[simonjay]

Hello
I am replacing a wall radiator that I had and that was falling off my wall as it was too heavy for the thin wall (or probably not fixed properly inteh first place).
I thought I could put something that stands on feet instead of being fixed to the wall to solve the problem of the wall being too thin. So I started lookign at nice cast iron radiators. However it seems that the one I would get needs to be 170cm long to et enough BTUs and will weight in the 160kgs!... and I am now worried about it being to heavy
I live on the first floor of a typical victorian house and my floor is just made of old pine floorboards. The radiator will be along a wall, but I can't tell if it there is a beam below teh floor or not.

On the other hand 160 kilos on 2 feet that's 80kgs on each and I don't see why it wouldn't hold but I'd rather be sure, I'm wondering if I'm not being stupid here.... Many thanks for your help!
Carolyn

2 people ? I'm sure your floor will hold that !
Simon.

 

[SimonH2]

assuming its not an attic conversion you"beams[joists ]will be every 16"
your load is near the wall so only around 10% is loaded on the floor the rest assuming its parallel to the flooring goes to the wall

Eh ? Don't follow what you mean there.

Depending on which wall it's against, it'll either be :
If the joists run parallel to the wall the radiator is against, then the rad will be sat partly on the end joist, partly on the floor bridging between that and the next joint. The weight will be wherever in the span the rad is sat relative to the joist supports - so could be mid span.

If the joints run the other way, then the rad will be sat on the floor boards where they bridge the joists. It will be at the ends of the joists where they are supported to the wall, but the rad feet may be mid-span where the boards span the gap between joists.
But the rad has two feet, so the point load is only 80kg so should be fine as long as you haven't got that horrible shipboard stuff and let it get damp.

But in the grand scale of things, it's not all that much weight. Think how things like bookcases can soon add up, and what a couple in a double bed can weigh if they are well proportioned.