A month or so back I finally found an structurial engineer to come look at my house. He was charging $80 and hour and said if the main support couldn't hold the weight we'd discuss other option to reinforce it such as using floor jacks or even replacing main support beams. After several weeks of leaving messages and him not calling back I finally got a hold of him and he gave me the bad news.
He said it's just not worth the liability issues of giving me a letter of approval to set up the tank on my second floor. I don't even think he put the info in his computer program like he said so we didn't even discuss optional methods strengthing supports in the house.
I guess I really could set it up in my basement but there's never really a reson for me or anybody else to be down there and I'm afraid I'll only ever see it when I'm doing water changes or feeding. I finally have all the money to do this project, I have the tank, built the stand, ordered a ER8-3 w/ new beta pump this week, I have the additional lighting etc.... I really don't want to scrap the project becasue I'm really not happy w/ my 110 and how it's setup and the overall shape of it.
What should I do?
He said it's just not worth the liability issues of giving me a letter of approval to set up the tank on my second floor. I don't even think he put the info in his computer program like he said so we didn't even discuss optional methods strengthing supports in the house.
I guess I really could set it up in my basement but there's never really a reson for me or anybody else to be down there and I'm afraid I'll only ever see it when I'm doing water changes or feeding. I finally have all the money to do this project, I have the tank, built the stand, ordered a ER8-3 w/ new beta pump this week, I have the additional lighting etc.... I really don't want to scrap the project becasue I'm really not happy w/ my 110 and how it's setup and the overall shape of it.
What should I do?