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   JohnSprung | Mar 27, 2002 04:08am | #1

   We need more info -- span and spacing of the joists, lumber grade, dimensions and location of the water load.

   -- J.S.

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   scotclarke | Mar 27, 2002 04:17am | #2

   16 oc ,foot from the wall, 2x10, center of the room. no2 or better? this is in a house i am planning to buy . house is only 15-18 yrs old.

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   scotclarke | Mar 27, 2002 04:19am | #3

   span of the room is 12 feet sorry about that!

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   desirednam4 | Mar 27, 2002 04:34am | #4

   Waterbeds are normally not too heavy for any residential floor. I have one.... but no invitation is going out to anyone but hot  babes! to come by and check it out!@

    Really... You should be fine... if not... please die during the crash thru the floor so as to reduce the liability angle for me.

   Lakeside...On the mountain, near the stream,aj Builder of Fine Homes & Tennis Courts  And featuring; Great Camps of the Adirondacks

   Edited 3/26/2002 9:45:49 PM ET by aj

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   RichBeckman | Mar 27, 2002 04:42am | #5

   I think AJ is right. I do remember many years ago reading about a couple who's bed was leaking, so to minimize the water damage, they rolled the still full mattress out onto the balcony. The balcony collapsed. Keep it inside.

   Rich Beckman

   Edited 3/26/2002 9:43:19 PM ET by Rich Beckman

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   scotclarke | Mar 27, 2002 04:51am | #6

   I'll talk my wife out of this yet.!keep em comming a regular bed is eaiser to move anyways.

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   jimblodgett | Mar 27, 2002 07:46am | #7

   How many occupants will you average, what size, and how acrobatic will they be?

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   Geoffrey | Mar 27, 2002 07:54am | #8

   Let me get this straight Scott, you're trying to talk your wife OUT OF  the bed!!?  :)

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   NateMeredith | Mar 28, 2002 03:09am | #12

   I think we need the input of both a physicist as well as an oceanographer here.  It's not the weight of the bed or the occupants, but the momentum of the waves that determine the need for a stronger floor.

   Nate

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   Piffin | Mar 28, 2002 03:25am | #13

   And be sure to use the chemical. You don't want any endangered species growing in there or the DEP, the EPA, and the IRS will all be in bed with you and there's no way to engineer for that kind of a load.

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   scotclarke | Mar 28, 2002 10:45pm | #14

   I've talked her out of the waterbed--- now I'll try and see if i can put up a brass pole!. Anyone know where I can get one?

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   MrsReese | Mar 28, 2002 11:24pm | #15

   Brass poles: Get the one they sell as a foot rest at the bottom of a bar.They sell that at Home Depot. You can mount it floor to ceiling easy enough, but find a ceiling joist, for wife's sake! I'm assuming you want it vertical for the old hangin' upside down by the thighs trick? Tell you wife to give me a number between 1 and 10 for how bad that hurts. I've seen it done, but just never thought it looked.... comfortable. Judging from the spike heeled shoes the woman working the pole was wearing, and the number of ones tucked in her garter, men just like anything that makes a woman suffer. My husband goes to work and assigns me chores that require moving a 30 foot ladder around by myself. Which begs the question, what's the point if he's not here to see it?

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   scotclarke | Mar 29, 2002 01:10am | #16

   Sounds like you bought one recently? I'll have to sell her on it yet. As far as the ladder goes Ithink it was a test.Now that he knows that you can do that Watch out he'll have you moving cinder blocks.

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   MrsReese | Mar 29, 2002 02:05am | #17

   Well, I dropped the 30 foot ladder and broke a trunk off a multi-trunk birch tree I was nurturing. The I got the 16 foot ladder and finished tearing off the siding on the chimney. What I saw underneath made me think of tearing the framing down, too. So if hubbie doesn't come home from the bar soon, he's going to find himself left out of the decision to eliminate the fireplace from the living room.

   B

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   scotclarke | Mar 29, 2002 05:19am | #18

   Or re- bricking the chimney! should have bought a pole!

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   jimblodgett | Mar 29, 2002 07:46am | #19

   If you don't mind me sayin', this all sounds very bad. Except the part about the pole and heels, that is.

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   nigelpratt | Mar 27, 2002 08:11am | #9

   Of course another factor that hasn't been considered here is, how much does your wife weigh?

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   frontiercc | Mar 27, 2002 04:03pm | #10

   Correct me if I'm wrong here, but somebody once told me that the per sq foot loading of a waterbed is similar to that of a regular ol refrigerator.   Is this true??   If so, most modern houses should be able to support an h2o bed right??

   Of course, the occupants of your everyday fridge don't do acrobatics . . . . . . .

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   4Lorn1 | Mar 27, 2002 07:20pm | #11

   If your house is built to code and the framing is in reasonably good condition you shouldn't have any problems. While the water is heavy, my queen size is about 1300 pounds, this is distributed over a large area.