Is a 1000 lb grow tent safe on a typical 2nd floor bedroom floor? 5x5

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gubblebum

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Hello! I am just finishing up a 5x5 grow 9* 7 gallon pots, but I'd like to increase to 15 Gallon pots my next grow as I'm growing organic, coots method.

I calculate the weight could get up to almost 1000 lb on a full water, so in your varied opinions would this amount of load be well within the boundaries of safe for a typical floor, if it's in the corner of a 10x10 bedroom?

Thanks :)
 
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gubblebum

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Cynister said:
I've had 4 five-gallon pots in my 5x5 and it was full. How many 15-gallon pots do you think will fit?
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Possibly six, more realistically I'm going to do 6 * 10 g pots but I'm just wondering what the limits are! I'd love to actually have a no till method in there but I think it's probably too heavy.
 
HydroKid239

HydroKid239

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gubblebum said:
Hello! I am just finishing up a 5x5 grow 9* 7 gallon pots, but I'd like to increase to 15 Gallon pots my next grow as I'm growing organic, coots method.

I calculate the weight could get up to almost 1000 lb on a full water, so in your varied opinions would this amount of load be well within the boundaries of safe for a typical floor, if it's in the corner of a 10x10 bedroom?

Thanks :)
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I wouldn’t wanna live in a place that isn’t sturdy enough for 2x 500lbs freaks can’t get it on. Lol I’m just foolin.. but on a serious note.. Is it rented? I’d ask the owner about the structural integrity. Say you’re thinking of putting a big oak hutch in the room & wanna know if it’s safe.
 
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gubblebum

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Cynister said:
I should be more specific, 4 five-gal. pots did not fill my 5x5 tent, but the plants in them did and it was crowded watering and working around them. But that's just my limited experience.
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If you're growing organic with mostly water and all the nutrients already in the pot, you need bigger pots than normal. 7-15 gallon.

10x 6 should be pretty safe as it's the same weight (actually less) than my current 9x 7g pots. Was considering going bigger pots though to make sure they have enough juice to last flowering...
 
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Playk328

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Fek I never thought about the safety of the weight on my upstairs.. Luckily our house has steel beams holding it in place..

Weird that this has never crossed my mind, not even once until reading this post..

At first I laughed when I read this, "if your house cant support 1k lbs you may not want to live there".. But after rethinking this, damn this actually has some merit to it, that is a lot of weight just sitting there non stop.. I swear I never thought about this.. I may rearrange some things upstairs.
 
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gubblebum

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Playk328 said:
Fek I never thought about the safety of the weight on my upstairs.. Luckily our house has steel beams holding it in place..

Weird that this has never crossed my mind, not even once until reading this post..

At first I laughed when I read this, "if your house cant support 1k lbs you may not want to live there".. But after rethinking this, damn this actually has some merit to it, that is a lot of weight just sitting there non stop.. I swear I never thought about this.. I may rearrange some things upstairs.
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Yeah man currently I have 9 7 gallon pots in a 5x5 and that's actually potentially in the realms of 750 lbs when wet!

Then my fat arse in there with them bearish 1000 lbs. I have mine in the corner of a room and so far so good... 1000 lbs over 20 sqf is 50 lbs per sqf which is above the average 30 allowance we have but that's if you were to load every part of your room like that so it should be fine but I don't know what the actual limit is for 1 square foot
 
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Playk328

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gubblebum said:
Yeah man currently I have 9 7 gallon pots in a 5x5 and that's actually potentially in the realms of 750 lbs when wet!

Then my fat arse in there with them bearish 1000 lbs. I have mine in the corner of a room and so far so good... 1000 lbs over 20 sqf is 50 lbs per sqf which is above the average 30 allowance we have but that's if you were to load every part of your room like that so it should be fine but I don't know what the actual limit is for 1 square foot
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Yeah I never even though about this, I know I have a couple of shelves that are stacked together that are a shit ton of weight, I never thought about it just sitting there on the second floor like that.. Our house has steel beams for support but still, I am going to arrange these a bit differently now.
 
keifcake

keifcake

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I'm sure you'll be fine, we used to deliver and install exercise equipment, and it almost always went upstairs. Some of the machine have 3 or 4 weight stacks on them, with probably 200 - 300 lbs per stack, then there may be free weights, and most of the treadmills would be 350 lbs, but could be as heavy 500+.
 
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