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djmk1988 · 4th Jul 2020, 9:08 pm

I understand this might sound funny to many of you here. Also, it might sound like a joke post but this is as serious as it can get.

If I posted the subject under the wrong category may I ask a moderator to move the thread somewhere else.

I live in a wooden house in Central Cardiff, which is probably dated around the early 1900s. The house floors are made completely out of wood. I do have a quite generous reel to reel collection which I keep in one of the rooms on the first floor. The room measures about 3.50m by 3.80 approximately. Given there are about 30 machines in this room (the rest of them are on the ground floor) I would imagine the weight of them alone plus furniture and also other bits like amplifiers and tapes would rise to somewhere around 1000kg including myself - it does sound exaggerated but it is as real as possible.

May I ask what is the possibility of the floor to collapse under this weight and should I seriously consider moving everything somewhere downstairs?

Cheers to you all.

4th Jul 2020, 9:08 pm	#1
djmk1988 Pentode Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Harrow, London Posts: 108	Too much weight- floor collapse? I understand this might sound funny to many of you here. Also, it might sound like a joke post but this is as serious as it can get. If I posted the subject under the wrong category may I ask a moderator to move the thread somewhere else. I live in a wooden house in Central Cardiff, which is probably dated around the early 1900s. The house floors are made completely out of wood. I do have a quite generous reel to reel collection which I keep in one of the rooms on the first floor. The room measures about 3.50m by 3.80 approximately. Given there are about 30 machines in this room (the rest of them are on the ground floor) I would imagine the weight of them alone plus furniture and also other bits like amplifiers and tapes would rise to somewhere around 1000kg including myself - it does sound exaggerated but it is as real as possible. May I ask what is the possibility of the floor to collapse under this weight and should I seriously consider moving everything somewhere downstairs? Cheers to you all.