2nd Floor Room, how much weight is safe?...

Hey all, just moved house, back to my parents after a bad experience with a landlord.

I'm being asked to keep all my stuff in my room, and my collection is quite large, i'm worried about how the weight will effect the floor.

I have a few small freestanding shelves, each with around 100 dvd sized cases on them (mostly games) 8 of those. And one large bookshelf, with 2 selves of hardback books, and around 400 games on, as well as some very light display stuff ontop and 2 original xboxes. Theres a small, light couch, and no bedframe just a mattress which I lean against the wall during the day.

Is there a chance this lot could fall through the floor? Or am I worrying needlessly? Anybody have any ideas or experience with this kinda thing?

Cheers

It shouldn't be a problem, unless the house is really, really fricking old and/or falling apart. I'm 19 and still in my parent's house (not too much longer! (:), and my room is full of heavy crap. The lower floor hasn't seen my room yet. (:

That's a relief, I mean the house is really old (built in the 50s afaik) but from what I gather thats not that old for a house.

I've never heard of a second story floor collapsing from weight, but it would be funny. :P I would assume that you are fine, but if you are really worried, then it will take more than a post on the internet to find out. You need to find out all kinds of information about the house to find out the exact weight that the floor can hold.

Just don't put a pool in there, and you should be fine.

I think you should be fine, I have honestly not heard of a roof falling unless there was just a total lack of maintenance or something stupid (like the indoor pool) that caused it to happen.

It must suck moving out of your parent's house. Everybody I've known similar to your problem always ends up in a bad situation. If you're rooming with friends the friendship deteriorates as your different lifestyles clash.

You need to lay off the Twinkies and/or NES games if the floor collapsing is a real fear.

A house gets proportionally shittier the newer it is. The percentage of stucco used to hold up a house also needs to be taken into account. Also, you should be able to park several cars on top of a house.

Nah man, I live on the second floor (It's a loft space and it's all mine, rest of the familly "live" on the first floor) and I have hella stuff here. No floorboards giving way at all.