Home gym safe on 2nd floor?

robocode

Moved into a new place (renting) and want to get a power rack and olympic weight set. Looking at the heavy rack on Irish Lifting that weighs 100kg and the 140kg weight set. It's an old house and I just want to get an idea how safe this will be? I don't want any damaged joists or the like! I know the weight is probably puny compared to what the floor could take but I thought I'd get your opinions on it.

dor843088

robocode wrote: »

Moved into a new place (renting) and want to get a power rack and olympic weight set. Looking at the heavy rack on Irish Lifting s 100kg and the 140kg weight set. It's an old house and I just want to get an idea how safe this will be? I don't want any damaged joists or the like! I know the weight is probably puny compared to what the floor could take but I thought I'd get your opinions on it.

If your interested in a power rack I know where theres a powertec rack with high and low pulley lat attachment, powertec bench with leg extension and leg curl attachment, 145kg olympic weight set, 2 olympic dumbell handles, tricep vbar , close grip straight bar and a weight tree for a grand.

nice_guy80

depends on the quality of the timbers used in the ceiling joists

what grade of timber are they?

Mellor

nice_guy80 wrote: »

depends on the quality of the timbers used in the ceiling joists

what grade of timber are they?

The quality alone won't tell you anything. You need to know joist width, depth, and span.

Regardless, even with super strength joists he could still go through the floor if a floor board fails. I wouldn't trust 18mm of pine to hold very much. With a heavy squat, 200-250kg could be supported on a couple of boards.

arse..biscuits

Very risky. I know from my previous life in construction that joists are often weaker than they look due to electricians/plumbers drilling holes through them to run cables/pipes, especially if the house was ever rewired.
Like Mellor said, if you are doing a deadlift, that's a hell of a lot of weight concentrated on a very small space. You would also have to put the weight back down very gently. Even if the joists held the weight, there would be some movement and you are likely to get the ceiling below cracking and plaster falling off.

robocode

Thanks for the feedback. Can't believe I didn't think of it sooner, at least I thought of it before buying the gear! I assume kettlebell work will be fine once I'm not dropping things?

arse..biscuits

robocode wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback. Can't believe I didn't think of it sooner, at least I thought of it before buying the gear! I assume kettlebell work will be fine once I'm not dropping things?

No problem there. KBs wouldn't cause a problem

robocode

I think that's safer so! Especially seeing as I'm only renting and it's an old house! I don't want to end up crashing through the floor with a barbell across my shoulders.