We've just bought a new hosue and my partner has always wanted a huge bath - one that looks like a swimming pool....
So she buys this double width whirpool bath before we move in because it's on sale....
We live in a 1891 terraced hosue and the bathroom is upstairs.
What I'm interested to know is - is this thing going to be too heavy for the floor?
I've had two bits of advice - firstly that it will need a steel, or extra joists or god knows what and structural engineers. Then someone said just reinforce the floor with a layer of hardboard.
The other person I've spoken to thinks as its double the weight but over double the area there's nothing to worry about and it can just go straight in......
The walls its going up against are one external and one internal. If anyone has any ideas that would help that would be great - I don't really want to be spending out on a whole new ground floor if I can help it and would rather sell the bath and just get something 'normal'!!!!
So she buys this double width whirpool bath before we move in because it's on sale....
We live in a 1891 terraced hosue and the bathroom is upstairs.
What I'm interested to know is - is this thing going to be too heavy for the floor?
I've had two bits of advice - firstly that it will need a steel, or extra joists or god knows what and structural engineers. Then someone said just reinforce the floor with a layer of hardboard.
The other person I've spoken to thinks as its double the weight but over double the area there's nothing to worry about and it can just go straight in......
The walls its going up against are one external and one internal. If anyone has any ideas that would help that would be great - I don't really want to be spending out on a whole new ground floor if I can help it and would rather sell the bath and just get something 'normal'!!!!
