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Plywood strength
Anonymous user 16/03/2024 - 2.31 PM
Heya, Bit of a random one... I'm moving into a music studio with a plywood flooring. Typically I use breeze blocks as music stands for my speakers, and build up a tower of 10 each side. Ends up being about 220kg of breezeblock for each speaker... so totalling around 450kg spaced about 1.5m apart.. Would the plywood floor hold that weight? If not, could anyone recommend somewhere that sells lightweight blocks that could function in the same way.
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4 Answers
Brighton The Joiner
Rating: 5 out of 5
That is a lot of weight to be placed on a plywood floor, maybe 25mm thick plywood would be able to take that sort of weight but I would imagine your ply's probably not that thick, personally I wouldn't suggest it
Answered27 June 2020
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bucks flooring ltd
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unless its 25mm then your taking a chance, and tbf its going to depend on what the ply is on if its joists are they sound? if its ply over floorboards are the floor boards sitting on the joists ok. Sounds like a lot of weight in a low m2 to me. The chances are the ply 12mm and above will be fine as long as what's blow it is.
Could you not build 18mm mdf stands for your speakers, mdf is heavy but nowhere near the breeze block weights.
Answered5 July 2020
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Surrey Refurbishments ltd
Rating: 5 out of 5
Of course it will, I take it there are joists underneath that are weight bearing.
Answered27 June 2020
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Anonymous user
Well depending on your subfloor you could probably use and 18mm ply and reinforced the floor underneath to allow more wait To be put on it thanks Jordon
Answered11 July 2020
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