Home Gym question

[busyLivin]

I'm thinking about making my extra room into a home gym. I have a bunch of equipment I had at my last place: dumbbells 5-70lbs, rack, benches, plates, elliptical, etc.

My question is about the weight of all the equipment. I now live in a 3rd floor condo. Is there anything to worry about? I talked to a cousin in construction who laughed it off & said even really old houses are built to withdstand thousands of pounds in a single area, but I don't know how reliable that information is.

The dumbbells alone are over 1,000 lbs. My gym is close & relatively cheap, so it's not the end of the world if I can't do it safely in my condo... my membership renewal is coming up & I got to thinking about the thousands of dollars i spent to not have to pay gym memberships anymore....

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Doublebase]

I'm thinking about making my extra room into a home gym. I have a bunch of equipment I had at my last place: dumbbells 5-70lbs, rack, benches, plates, elliptical, etc.

My question is about the weight of all the equipment. I now live in a 3rd floor condo. Is there anything to worry about? I talked to a cousin in construction who laughed it off & said even really old houses are built to withdstand thousands of pounds in a single area, but I don't know how reliable that information is.

The dumbbells alone are over 1,000 lbs. My gym is close & relatively cheap, so it's not the end of the world if I can't do it safely in my condo... my membership renewal is coming up & I got to thinking about the thousands of dollars i spent to not have to pay gym memberships anymore....

Thanks for any advice.

I don't know much about construction. If your cousin says it fine then it probably is. I would just make sure you disperse the weight evenly. Put your dumbbells on one side and your plate trees on the other. Also, you may want to get some heavy duty rubber mats to put down in case your drop an 80lb db or w/e. Good luck.

 

[busyLivin]

I don't know much about construction. If your cousin says it fine then it probably is. I would just make sure you disperse the weight evenly. Put your dumbbells on one side and your plate trees on the other. Also, you may want to get some heavy duty rubber mats to put down in case your drop an 80lb db or w/e. Good luck.

Thanks. I have pergo floors.. I'll be getting some kind of rubber flooring if I go ahead with it. My dumbbells are actually on two different racks.. one with 360 pounds, the other with about 690.. i can have them on opposite walls.

 

[Arnold]

I would contact the builder of the condo unit.

 

[IronAddict]

I'm thinking about making my extra room into a home gym. I have a bunch of equipment I had at my last place: dumbbells 5-70lbs, rack, benches, plates, elliptical, etc.

My question is about the weight of all the equipment. I now live in a 3rd floor condo. Is there anything to worry about? I talked to a cousin in construction who laughed it off & said even really old houses are built to withdstand thousands of pounds in a single area, but I don't know how reliable that information is.

The dumbbells alone are over 1,000 lbs. My gym is close & relatively cheap, so it's not the end of the world if I can't do it safely in my condo... my membership renewal is coming up & I got to thinking about the thousands of dollars i spent to not have to pay gym memberships anymore....

Thanks for any advice.

You'll be fine, but if you have people living right below you, that may cause some unwanted aggrevations. Especially, if they're an older couple, you may want to be a considerate neighbor and bring this up to them.

For this reason, condos are not for me.

 

[maniclion]

What kind of construction material is your building made of? If your floor and ceiling are cement then you should be perfectly fine, is their a balcony? The floor of the balcony should be just an extension of whats beneath the whole unit. How old is the building? What's the spread of the 1000 lbs per foot? Probably somewhere around 250 or less, that a person, even if it were more think about a fully stocked side by side fridge or a king sized water bed, those things are very heavy.....

You should be fine unless you're in some ancient building......

Your dumbell rack will likely be against a wall which should be the strongest point if you had anything to worry about at all.

 

[busyLivin]

What kind of construction material is your building made of? If your floor and ceiling are cement then you should be perfectly fine, is their a balcony? The floor of the balcony should be just an extension of whats beneath the whole unit. How old is the building? What's the spread of the 1000 lbs per foot? Probably somewhere around 250 or less, that a person, even if it were more think about a fully stocked side by side fridge or a king sized water bed, those things are very heavy.....

You should be fine unless you're in some ancient building......

Your dumbell rack will likely be against a wall which should be the strongest point if you had anything to worry about at all.

flexicore.. yeah, the balcony is all cement. The building was built in 78.

 

[busyLivin]

You'll be fine, but if you have people living right below you, that may cause some unwanted aggrevations. Especially, if they're an older couple, you may want to be a considerate neighbor and bring this up to them.

For this reason, condos are not for me.

The sound issue I'm not too concerned with. The people below me are near my age & I have a great relationship with them... and I'd never work out really early or really late. If they had a problem, they'd come talk to me about it. I will mention it to them that I'm considering it though..

 

[maniclion]

Thanks. I have pergo floors.. I'll be getting some kind of rubber flooring if I go ahead with it. My dumbbells are actually on two different racks.. one with 360 pounds, the other with about 690.. i can have them on opposite walls.

That's even better having 2 separate racks the weight is distributed even better.... Think about when people have parties, ten people in the living room would be over 1000 pounds.

 

[maniclion]

The sound issue I'm not too concerned with. The people below me are near my age & I have a great relationship with them... and I'd never work out really early or really late. If they had a problem, they'd come talk to me about it. I will mention it to them that I'm considering it though..

When I lived in a condo it was like living in a cement bunker, the only time I heard noise was from one of my neighbors open balcony door and they had to really be cranking their stereo for me to hear it. In fact the unit 2 floors directly below us caught on fire and the only thing that we got was some smoke stains under our balcony and the smell of smoke in our furniture, carpet and curtains. That building was built in the mid-70's.....

 

[busyLivin]

When I lived in a condo it was like living in a cement bunker, the only time I heard noise was from one of my neighbors open balcony door and they had to really be cranking their stereo for me to hear it. In fact the unit 2 floors directly below us caught on fire and the only thing that we got was some smoke stains under our balcony and the smell of smoke in our furniture, carpet and curtains. That building was built in the mid-70's.....

yeah, I care rarely hear anything in there unless someone is in the hall