Recent content by Bob.

They're braver than me! :-) Unfortunately lack of foresight on my part but the floor was laid a couple of years ago and to get that section of floor up would involve taking up all the boards in the room - at least without cutting into the boards. I'm comfortable with the weight distributed...

Thanks both. And thanks Oldbutnotdead. That was my thinking, I wasn't sure how much load would the transferred to the wall but it seemed a sensible way forward to my untrained thinking. As you say, bolting to both walls seems the best approach and spread the load between 2 walls and the floor...

Hello, I'm a longtime reader of these forums, about to begin a project, and would like to ask for some advice. I'm going to build a steel framed custom fish tank but have the usual questions about load on the floor. The house is 1920's solid brick construction with timber suspended floor. The...