Floor Joist Safe

Standard safe sizes are.

Floor joist safe.

This safe is perfect for small high dollar items that you don t want anyone to know about. Joist span table use these tables to determine floor joist spans based on grade of lumber size of joist floor joist spacing and a live load of 30 lbs ft 2 or 40 lbs ft 2 these tables can also be used to determine deck joist span. Maximum floor joist span for no. Unlike some safes in this category heracles research corporation floor and wall safes are virtually impossible to carry off as they are designed to be professionally mounted directly to your buildings core structure either floor joists or wall studs.

2 grade of douglas fir are indicated below. Also all of the floor and wall safes have a 1 hour fire wall. Floor joist span tables for various sizes and species of wood. If there was water damage make sure that whatever leaky pipe or condensation issue caused the rot is fixed.

These problems must be addressed firsthand prior to implementing any restoration steps. 1 psf lb f ft 2 47 88 n m 2. Dead load weight of structure and fixed loads 10 lbs ft 2. While you may be ok with the joist span at 24 inches the floor will be maxed out to the limits.

Live load is weight of furniture wind snow and more. Most often floor joists need to be sistered because of two problems either water damage which leads to rot or termite damage that crumbled the joist.