[78-L] Record storage & 2nd floor weight limits

[Bob Rice]

   Easy! For ME, In CT we have basements! WAS worried that IF all of them 
were upstairs that they COULD put a stress on a frame house, too.Sorta like 
parking your CAR in the house?Hmmm? 27, 40 lb boxes at 1080 lbs. THAT'S about 
what I put in my car, weight wise, for BATTERIES in my electric car! Of 
course I had to beef up the brakes and springs. Hard to do that in a house, 
other than lolly columns? AND houses don't go very fast? I usta have a big 
piano and was worried that it was heavy? Sure was, IF you wanted to MOVE it! 
Solved that issue by giving it away! THEY moved it!!Truck to the back door! 
Records you CAN spread the weight around, a bit?

    YMMV?

     Bob
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Subject: [78-L] Record storage & 2nd floor weight limits


> Just curious about how & where everybody stores parts of their
> collection. I have some of the collection stored upstairs in the loft
> family room. These are mostly Lps(with many 78 reissues) kept in those
> U-Haul "record & book" boxes, turned on their sides & stacked two high
> so that they function as "record shelves". There are 27 boxes each
> weighing about 40 pounds, equaling some 1,080 pounds total. That's a
> TON of music, literally. They are lined up against a wall under the big
> picture windows, spread from one end of the room to the other. This of
> course doesn't include the weight of a sleeper sofa, wing chair &
> entertainment center with AV stuff in it.
>
> There is a similar amount of 78 albums & Lps stored on actual shelves
> in an adjoining room on the same floor-two tons altogether? I remember
> reading the obit for the late broadcaster Fred Kallend years ago, in
> which it was mentioned that his record collection was so
> massive(50,000+) that his ground level floor had to be reinforced. I
> don't expect to get up to that many records, since I won't have the 900
> years of Methusalah, but we're talking probably 4,500+ at any rate. Oh,
> and there are more stored in the garage-which has a concrete pad
> floor:) Should I be worried about "mannah from heaven"?
>
> Dennis "Henny Penny" Forkel
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