My First 24 Ton Rated Floor System

wallmaxx

I am drawing up plans for a beer and wine place where the wine racks upstairs might reach 48,000 lbs. Here's the in progress design so far.

I won't be building it so I might not get any actual pics from the site.

And, no, they don't pay in beer.

Mike

mightyscoop

very cool.

mdshunk

Any way to figure the potential point load for each foot on the racks? I'm just wondering if a rack leg couldn't poke through whatever the proposed decking will be.

mickeyco

Good point if the wine racks have legs and land between joists, that's a lot of weight, I see the closer joist spacing, I'm curious, legs landing on joists? No legs? "sleepers" under wine racks? Thicker than standard sub-flooring? Cement floor?

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neolitic

Though two layers of ¾ ply springs to mind,
I think he covered it in the floor section.
"Ensure that rack legs are in
load distributing tracks"

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wallmaxx

I am going to suggest C channel steel tracks...so the weight is even over all the joists.

MD - yeah, around 300 lbs per sq. in. Almost as bad as a woman's high heels

mdshunk

Not so bad, then. It wasn't clear from the couple drawings I clicked on how many legs were on each rack and what the foot profile was like.

mickeyco

No it's not two layers, I missed one of his drawings.

Here's what he's doing, load distributing tracks (sleepers):

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wallmaxx

I feel like I'm presenting my thesis before the review board. Kinda cool.

I like having multiple sets of experienced eyes look things over for FREE just in case I missed something.

MD - if my dwgs weren't clear to you...I need to know that. Thanks. I'll make things more clear for the bldr.

It's info like that that helps me understand and learn what I need to include to make it clear for everyone. (Since I've worked on this for 8 hours, it all seems obvious to me...go figure.) Typically I am building what I draw, so my info is 80% on the drawing and 15% in my head.

Thanks everyone.

Mike

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5% is lost in translation or made up as we go.

thom

First class detailing.

Cole

Awesome!

I hope you get it, I want to see it built.

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BuiltByMAC

Funny! Before I made it to the PS, I'm sitting there going, hey, he's missing something!

You're doing good if it's only 5%, man. Having those detailed drawings would certainly help define the actions needed to accomplish the project...you do some nice CAD work, it's good seeing you make cash off that as well as building.

Good on ya, man!

Mac