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Suspended timber floor - could it support a snooker table?

  • 06-06-2007 09:57AM
    #1
    Yorky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone know if a suspended timber floor (bedroom) with 225mm x 50mm joists at 400mm centres floored with chipboard and pine floor boards on top
    would support an 8' x 4' snooker table weighing approx. 500KG? I appreciate that this is about the weight of six men but there could be six men and the table in the room! Any advice would be appreciated.


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  • #2
    cast_iron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭cast_iron


    It should. I assume the room was designed can take at least 12 men (aprox 1000kg).
    My point is that general load baring design requires that the support can take at least twice the max expected weight. Scale the above sum as required.


  • #3
    shakeydude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭shakeydude


    Care should be taken as this could be a games room/party room. I know a friend who has a pool table upstairs and we have had a few parties when the room has been packed and I thought the place would collapse,but he informed me that they doubled the joists for such eventualities!!!!


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