Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: New house frame issues 221Jan 12, 2015 11:51 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: New house frame issues 231Jan 13, 2015 9:33 pm Does this capacity 210L is with 87kg person in tub or without? Re: New house frame issues 232Jan 13, 2015 9:56 pm Now that I've reread my post, I better change it because clearly you can't fill the bath to capacity (of 210L which is 210kg) and then get into it! The entire weight (maximum) would be the 40kg bath plus 210kg (which is person plus water). New house frame issues 233Jan 13, 2015 10:08 pm If bath tub's width spans over two joists then 250kg weight shouldn't be a problem. I know a case where bath tub plumbing wasn't good enough and leakage under tub cavity caused a big damage within a day post handover. Re: New house frame issues 234Jan 14, 2015 6:07 pm tlblhayward Does anyone know if it is a requirement to put additional floor joists (or other support) under a freestanding bath on a second floor? The weight of the bath is 40kg, the capacity is 210L and the average Aussie bloke weighs 87.1kg (according to the ABS). That would be almost 340kg! You can either have a bath full to capacity with water or a person in it, not both. That said the normal domestic floor load is 1.5kPa. From there you should be able to calculate if it's close or not. Re: New house frame issues 235Jan 14, 2015 6:30 pm A bath full of water is a "live" load. It is only a short term temporary load which is unlikely to cause permanent deflections in the floor whereas water bed or large fish tank (or full height bookshelf fully loaded with books) would be a "dead" load and more likely to cause permanent deflections. Re: New house frame issues 236Jan 14, 2015 9:48 pm RedHotMike tlblhayward Does anyone know if it is a requirement to put additional floor joists (or other support) under a freestanding bath on a second floor? The weight of the bath is 40kg, the capacity is 210L and the average Aussie bloke weighs 87.1kg (according to the ABS). That would be almost 340kg! You can either have a bath full to capacity with water or a person in it, not both. That said the normal domestic floor load is 1.5kPa. From there you should be able to calculate if it's close or not. Thanks RedHotMike... I picked up my mistake but I obviously didn't correct it quick enough! Re: New house frame issues 237Jan 14, 2015 9:49 pm Beetaloo A bath full of water is a "live" load. It is only a short term temporary load which is unlikely to cause permanent deflections in the floor whereas water bed or large fish tank (or full height bookshelf fully loaded with books) would be a "dead" load and more likely to cause permanent deflections. Well explained... thank you! Re: New house frame issues 238Jan 14, 2015 9:50 pm Today... at our Supervisor's request... I went and marked out the potentially defective floor joists at my place. Check out my blog if you are interested in finding out the full story. All advice and guidance is greatly appreciated! http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com/2015 ... ation.html Re: New house frame issues 240Jan 15, 2015 8:09 am Crazyk Why would it be your job to do ? Why doesn't he get his QA guy through to do it? Geez laziness like that irritates me I agree... I am thinking that they won't even question them, they will just rectify them. At least if I mark them then I put in the time/effort to climb the ladder 30 times, pull away the sisalation, etc. This is 100% true. You can not hang anything on steel frames. very frustrating 8 5345 Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 8443 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 30235 |