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Been talking to la-lucha about pool rooms upstairs on a different thread and it didn't really occur to me that it might be a snag. Not in the building trade so just thought a floor was a floor. Although the builders knew what was going up there it never occurred to me to question the specific load bearing of the floor, just kind of trusted them.
Having spoken to the company who made the table they said although it's a slate bed table it is only a 2cm deep slate and the table weighs in at 230kgs. They said that this is important as one of their traditional slate bed snooker tables is over 1200kgs.
My upstairs was built as a room from the off and the truss company actually modified the architect's design for the trusses, I have no idea if it was because I said I was putting a pool table up there or just belt and braces on their part but the bottom section of the truss was widened I think and extra bracing between the trusses was added. This is a pic of the trusses prior to going in:
I mentioned on the other thread that they put in extra trusses and thought this was to support the pool table, had no idea it was standard practice next to velux windows
I thought it was because of the pool table as my to scale plans I gave them of how I wanted the room laid out had the table on them and the legs of the pool table are over the double trusses:
Cant see it from the way the cupboard is attached but the double truss is right in line here too:
So anyway, no didn't occur to me to check and I'm guessing that I just got lucky that the table sits on the double trusses. Don't know how to describe it but the trusses are actually attached together with extra bracing below the floor as well (blocks of wood between 2 trusses, then offset between the next 2, then back in line with the first block between the next 2 trusses and so on). Perhaps this is standard as well?
Anyway, question for la_lucha if that's ok - 230 kgs table sitting on those double trusses braced to the trusses either side of them. Any chance of a snag or am I OK?
Having spoken to the company who made the table they said although it's a slate bed table it is only a 2cm deep slate and the table weighs in at 230kgs. They said that this is important as one of their traditional slate bed snooker tables is over 1200kgs.
My upstairs was built as a room from the off and the truss company actually modified the architect's design for the trusses, I have no idea if it was because I said I was putting a pool table up there or just belt and braces on their part but the bottom section of the truss was widened I think and extra bracing between the trusses was added. This is a pic of the trusses prior to going in:
I mentioned on the other thread that they put in extra trusses and thought this was to support the pool table, had no idea it was standard practice next to velux windows
I thought it was because of the pool table as my to scale plans I gave them of how I wanted the room laid out had the table on them and the legs of the pool table are over the double trusses:Cant see it from the way the cupboard is attached but the double truss is right in line here too:
So anyway, no didn't occur to me to check and I'm guessing that I just got lucky that the table sits on the double trusses. Don't know how to describe it but the trusses are actually attached together with extra bracing below the floor as well (blocks of wood between 2 trusses, then offset between the next 2, then back in line with the first block between the next 2 trusses and so on). Perhaps this is standard as well?
Anyway, question for la_lucha if that's ok - 230 kgs table sitting on those double trusses braced to the trusses either side of them. Any chance of a snag or am I OK?
