billydreamer
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2008
- Messages
- 18
I recently purchased a new condo with my fiancée, and I'm getting ready to move my aquarium. I just bought a new 28 gal bowfront with stand.
My problem is this: with this new home, I needed to install new flooring as the carpeting was shot. We chose to install laminate (fake wood) flooring, the click and lock style. Since this flooring is much thinner, and sits directly on the slab below, it requires a foam padding underneath it.
I am worried that if I put a tank directly on top of this flooring, it will depress the boards below the feet of the stand, and squish the foam below. I'm not worried about the flooring itself, it's very hard stuff...enough to make throw sparks when we were cutting it in the miter box. But, I am worried that if the tank sits in the same spot for a couple of years, the foam will give out, and the boards will be permanently deformed because of it.
I was thinking the best way to combat this would be to cut out a piece of heavy duty plywood, just bigger than the tank, and put it below the stand, and put a small rug below at the bottom of it all. Does this sound like a good solution? Has anybody else dealt with this?
My problem is this: with this new home, I needed to install new flooring as the carpeting was shot. We chose to install laminate (fake wood) flooring, the click and lock style. Since this flooring is much thinner, and sits directly on the slab below, it requires a foam padding underneath it.
I am worried that if I put a tank directly on top of this flooring, it will depress the boards below the feet of the stand, and squish the foam below. I'm not worried about the flooring itself, it's very hard stuff...enough to make throw sparks when we were cutting it in the miter box. But, I am worried that if the tank sits in the same spot for a couple of years, the foam will give out, and the boards will be permanently deformed because of it.
I was thinking the best way to combat this would be to cut out a piece of heavy duty plywood, just bigger than the tank, and put it below the stand, and put a small rug below at the bottom of it all. Does this sound like a good solution? Has anybody else dealt with this?