I'm planning the layout for a new utility room. There's a couple of items I'd like to fix to the wall inside the utility room but due to layout constraints, I can only put them on a stud partition wall.
The wall is about 230cm wide and about 240cm high. In the centre of the wall (but standing on the floor) is a washing machine. A small gap above this, I'd like to mount a shelf on the stud wall to then put a tumble dryer on it. I'm not sure of the weight but I would guess around 40 to 50kg. After another small gap above the tumble dryer, I'd like to mount a small 9U server rack. This would be mounted directly on the wall. I'm guessing the server rack empty is around 20 to 25kg. The rack is rated up to a maximum of 90kg but I'm likely to have far less than that as I'll have some networking kit in there, a couple of routers/modems, some other small network devices. My best guess is around 30 to 35kg with all the stuff I want in it. I guess depth of the items are also important as the deeper they are the more of a pivot they'll be against where they are mounted. Tumble dryer is about 65cm deep and the server rack is about 60cm deep. There is also going to be a gas system boiler along with all it's piping on the partition wall, but I'm not sure how much this weighs. I would guess around 35kg.
To summarise:
So my questions are:
The wall is about 230cm wide and about 240cm high. In the centre of the wall (but standing on the floor) is a washing machine. A small gap above this, I'd like to mount a shelf on the stud wall to then put a tumble dryer on it. I'm not sure of the weight but I would guess around 40 to 50kg. After another small gap above the tumble dryer, I'd like to mount a small 9U server rack. This would be mounted directly on the wall. I'm guessing the server rack empty is around 20 to 25kg. The rack is rated up to a maximum of 90kg but I'm likely to have far less than that as I'll have some networking kit in there, a couple of routers/modems, some other small network devices. My best guess is around 30 to 35kg with all the stuff I want in it. I guess depth of the items are also important as the deeper they are the more of a pivot they'll be against where they are mounted. Tumble dryer is about 65cm deep and the server rack is about 60cm deep. There is also going to be a gas system boiler along with all it's piping on the partition wall, but I'm not sure how much this weighs. I would guess around 35kg.
To summarise:
- Tumble dryer on shelf - 40 to 50kg
- Server rack mounted to wall - up to 35kg
- Gas system boiler - approx 35kg
So my questions are:
- Can a typical stud wall take this kind of load?
- If not, can stud wall be built in a way to be re-enforced so it can take that load? (partition wall has not been fully built, still has exposed timber frame)?
- Is there anything else I should consider or be aware of from now?