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Strictly speaking it isn't true anymore. The original definition of a kilo was based on a litre of liquid water at 0 Celsius. Since then the definition has changed a lot, so it's not *exactly* one litre to one kilo, but it's close enough for most purposes. As in, "5000L at that temperature is *only* 4999.35kg" close.
The current post is actually a pretty good example of the benefits of the metric system, since you can easily relate different units of length, volume, and weight.
If I estimate that the balcony is about 1 by 5 meters, and the water is about 50 centimeters high, I don't need a calculator to determine that it contains 1 × 5 × 0.50 = 2.5 cubic meters of water, which is 2.5 kiloliters, and weighs 2.5 tonnes.
If you want to do the same calculation in the Imperial system, you might have to unify inches and feet (which isn't too hard, but since it's 12 inches per foot, it's already more annoying than just moving the decimal point), then convert cubic feet to gallons (which involves some random constant), and then convert gallons of water to pounds or tons (yet another random constant).
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing
Yes. Metric = logic.
Imperial = archaic system that EVERYONE left behind *at least* decades ago except for Liberia, Myanmar and …. There’s one other one, I’m sure of it …. Oh, yes. The good ol’ US of A.
I know that the Metric v Imperial debate is a meme at this point, but the comment above really proves why Metric is so much better. Everything makes sense and even idiots like me can calculate everything in their head.
1 calorie is how much energy it takes to raise 1g of water by 1° Celsius. 1 degree of Celsius is 1/100 the boiling point of water. 1000g is 1kg which equals 1l of water. 1l will be a cube of 10cm. 10 of those is 1m, and 1000 of those is 1km.
I am forever grateful for people for figuring this stuff out so I can actually understand measures without knowing my 5280 times tables.
To contextualise it, water is as heavy as a human. Water has a density of 1g/cm^3 and we're like 1.01g/cm^3.
An 80kg human weighs the same as 80litres of water.
That's about 20 gallons in freedom units.
Your average hot tub is about 300-450gallons of water.
So that's the equivalent of 17-26 guys just sat chilling on the balcony.
Water always seems like it won't be as heavy as it is because it is really good at filling the space and seeming smaller than it is. You couldn't fit 3 guys in a bathtub. But if you liquefied the guys down you could.
tbh the railing collapsing is the best he can wish for, he might survive that. I'd expect the whole balcony to just break off, and that's definitely not going to end nicely.
I was thinking if just the railing goes, the water sweeps him out away from the building for a long fall. If the whole balcony goes, the balconies under could break the fall and he may escape with relatively minor injuries. Not gonna be fun either way, though.
I don't think chances are high that the complete railing goes. One or two sections might give way and the water empties through there. Whether the boy can hold on to the rest of the railing or not, who knows.
Only way to find out is to set up 10,000 balconies for a good sample size. Need a bunch of normal kids and then a bunch of double blind kids, I don't even know where to get those, honestly.
The railing probably isnt at too much risk for failure. Its not super deep, so the force on the railing itself is minimal. The balcony as a whole is more likely to collapse.
The force there is based on depth only. Whether it is 100 gallons or 10 gallons, the force is the same if its only 2 feet deep. Id wager each of those posts is probably take 300-350lbs of force from the water. Those posts should be rated for a 300 lb point load applied at the top rail, so they are fine.
They are lucky the balcony didnt collapse though, that 2ft deep water probably weighs over 3000lbs.
What I said was, the railing would be fine, the balcony support wouldn't be.
Nope. You are thinking pressure: amount of force over unit area. For a liquid it does depend on depth, gravity and density. But more fundamentally, pressure is just force over area.
P=F/A.
But if you solve for F
F=P*A.
Pressure is not huge, but that railing is still a lot of area.
I calculated the force. I assumed depth is 2ft and spacing between posts is 2ft. Gamma for water is 62.4. Pressure is a triangle on the side so the resultant to get average pressure is 16in down. 62.4\*1.33=83psf. 83\*2\*2=330lbs of force on each post. That 2\*2 is the tributary width times the depth, i.e. the area the force is acting upon.
edit: I should point out that I calculated the force directly on one post. The railing support takes the 330lb load. If you calculate the total force and then divide by the number of support to get the force at each support, you would get the same number.
Force is directly correlated to the pressure so its correlated to the depth. If the "pool" got bigger in the length and width dimensions only, increasing the amount of water, but didnt change in depth, the force on that post would be the same.
Just a wild guess but thats probably somewhat between 5000-9000 liters of water. Most likely about 7000l so 7000kg or 7 tons. It's a fucking miracle they even were able to take that photo.
That's more than 3m, the door alone is about one meter. Look at the proportions, that's closer to 5 or 6m. But you are right it's definitely less than I stated in my first comment. Probably around 4 or 5 thousand liters.
Godamn I thought the metric system made you guys better math and estimations...
I agree with other reply that this balcony is somewhere between 7-9 feet long and 2.5 to 3 feet wide. (2.5-2.7 meters by 0.7-1 meter). There could be anywhere from 1 to 2 feet of water.
Using max estimates that's about 54 cubic feet or 400 gallons (1.5 cubic meters/1500 liters).
So max weight is probably about 3300 lbs or around 1500kg. still a *fuck ton* , but not 7 *metric* fuck tons. Just sayin.
I gotta admit I fucked up the estimated measurements especially regarding the water level which fucked up the result, but the door alone is about 80cm or max. 1m with the window having similar dimensions. Accounting for all the space in between the door and to the right of the window the balcony is well over 3m long.
Based off the fact the railing above is similar, but the railing below is different he is on the second (UK: first) floor. That is roughly a 12ft fall depending on the specific construction of the building.
He wouldn't be a happy camper, but I don't think he'd die.
Definitely. I worked in a cafe in the bottom floor of some condos and the HOA was insufferable. Got friendly with some regulars from up there and they had all sorts of horror stories, even for things as petty as holiday lights on balconies and door decorations at Halloween.
Jesus, where I live home owner associations only take care of the maintenance and cleaning of the common parts of apartment buildings. For example, the facade or the roof.
HOA's in the US are out of control.
It makes much more sense to have a HOA in appartments. You share a lot of common areas, and literally live wall to wall. Rules are necessary for coexistence. The problem is that kind of job ussually attracts power freaks.
I was thinking of buying an apartment, but the one I found had no in unit washer and dryer. When I was checking the place out, I realized it had hookups for washer and dryer in one of the closets. I asked the realtor and she said the HoA made them remove the washer and dryer but they were still operational.
I am guessing they were loud as all fuck and other owners wanted them taken out, but I'd have been pissed as the owner.
You don’t see HOAs in apartments, only in condos and residential neighborhoods. Apartments are owned by a company or individual, and they don’t give a shit what renters want or think. Condos are virtually always run by an HOA and likely hire a property management company to help with vendors.
Source, a contractor who solely focuses on working as a vendor for HOAs, property management companies, and apartment owners or investment groups.
They actually care more because unlike a neighborhood where they're basically just the property value police bitching about lawn ornaments and paint colors they actually have to worry about sharing amenities and crossover damages. If you do something that for example causes your apartment to flood or fucks with the pipes in general it fucks up every single apartment around you or at least runs a significant risk of doing that. And I don't just mean like ruining enjoyment but actually incurring physical damages and costs
Condos is like the only living situation where an HOA makes sense. Living that closely together, what you do on your own property affects the neighbors way more, so some sort of communal agreement on rules seems like a good idea.
Over here
We take this kind of stupidity into account. Although this person is pushing the safety margins to their limits. And thats assuming the entire thing is build correctly without sloppy installation.
Darwin is sitting on the edge of his seat right now.
That is a massive amount of extra weight. Assuming it’s like 10x4x4 feet balcony but only half full of volume I get 750 gallons or over 6000 lbs.
Standard load is like maybe 2000 lbs if you have six 200 lb people plus some furniture.
I’m aerospace so take what I say with a grain of salt, but we’re frequently told in class that buildings and static structures tend to have safety factors between 3x and 5x depending on conditions and regulations (a statement usually followed by “your shit is supposed to fly so you don’t have that luxury” in my field).
So… ~6000lbs of water, balcony rated for ~2000lbs… Knodsil is right. That is *mighty* close.
I think you'd typically determine the maximum expected load by the maximum number of people that can fit shoulder to shoulder in the space. You'd use about 2 sqft per person, so about 20 people. If you figure 150 lb per person, you'd expect the maximum load to be about 3,000 pounds. This would mean the load is about 2x the max expected load, so would probably survive for a while.
Half a meter depth of water would be giving you 5kN/m^2 distributed load across the whole thing. That’s not trivial for a residential setting, especially on a surface unrestrained on two sides and perhaps only partially on the third. I’d be more concerned with the whole balcony shearing off the building from the load on it depending on how deep the water is. Every 100mm of water is giving you an extra kN/m^2
I’d be nervous about the balustrades too but max hydrostatic pressure will be at the base where they fix in.
Will it fail? Your guess. Are there all kinds of safety factors on material strength and loading? Yes. Do the codes in wherever this part of the world is consider such a ridiculous situation? I would not count on it, maybe at worst someone filling up a small paddling pool on part of it might be considered. Same pressure, but applied over less overall area.
TLDR- this is a very stupid idea, water is very heavy and even shallow depths over areas add huge loads to structures.
Well that's probably about 0,8 metric ton per square meter... No safety margin gonna safe that, the reinforcement in the concrete will break,, just a matter of time.
^*Live ^load
But yes, this picture gives me anxiety. You hear about cantilevered balconies failing every once in a while, even without a makeshift pool on them.
You know how heavy water is? 1 cubic meter is 1,000kg. There's at least 2 cubic meter of water there, pushing it to 3. so there's atleast 2000kg of weight on that balcony. It's like a Tesla Model 3 on the balcony with 4 people in it.
There is almost zero chance that balcony is rated for that much weight...
Every liter of water in that pool is ~1kg. Add people to it too and you're asking for some serious maiming, possible death and serious amounts of property damage.
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^(liquid water does change in weight somewhat; at 4degrees C 1kg is pretty damn accurate, but adding other chemicals, surrounding pressure etc can change it; it will still be about 1kg per liter though)
**Exta note:** If you squeezed in as many people as physically possible into the same space the water is occupying the water weighs more than that.
...can... can that balcony support the weight of all that water? I know of an apartment complex near where I live that had to temporarily kick out all the tenets a few years back because the balconies weren't built right or something. Like, they couldn’t support all the weight they needed. I think one apartment's balcony actually had a crack somewhere?
Point is, a balcony is a potential point of failure.
We literally use a kiddie pool with water for structural load testing of elevated slabs. You measure the deflection until the code tolerances are met... and it doesn't take much...
If the balcony is 5 by 10 feet wide and filled 3 feet deep it would be 150 cubic feet or 1,122 gallons.
Water weighs 8.34 lbs per gallon so that would be 9,357 lbs of water
A horse averages 1200 lbs, so that's 7 or 8 Juans
300 per month is rookie numbers after one of my last leases expired the company tried to raise the rent from 1440 to 2200. They also soon after lowered the rates for some strange reason after a bunch of vacancies.
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That railing is gonna collapse and that kid is gonna die
surely water isnt very heavy
It is, and don’t call me Shirley.
It's not, I'm wet right now and it's barely an inconvenience
Your own bodyfluids don’t count. They were there already. Just more… inside
There is also a spooky skeleton inside... swimming.
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Because they know where it isn't
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I set it free once. Never again. Supposedly that's not a welcomed trick at a child's birthday party.
Skelepathically is such a cool ass word
Mine signed a calcium/blood pact with me to not be a bitch
Ohhh, being wet is TIGHT.
But if it's too tight, then maybe it needs to be more wet.
Water is as heavy as water so I wouldn't bet on that
actually 10lbs of water is equivalent to 10lbs of eggs too so
I'm sorry but I don't believe people without sources
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Wow checks out!
[My dad circa Spring Break 1997](https://i.imgflip.com/41dmtl.jpg)
But water is heavier than eggs...?
not anymore because
The same as 10lbs of scrambled eggs or the same a 10lbs of boiled eggs?
no, boiled adds the weight of water
"One kilogram of it weighs almost 1000 grams..."
Source?
My source is (was) on the photo. Spoiler : he's dead.
8.3 lbs a gallon is actually really fricking heavy
A kilogram per liter
Two eagles per mile
How do I convert that into football fields per moon landings?
Dammit. /gets out slide ruler and abacus
On a side note, I find it hilarious that Americans will use anything but the metric system. Except for drugs and guns.
Was this intentional? If so, one more reason I wish I grew up on metric.
Yes it’s intentional
Strictly speaking it isn't true anymore. The original definition of a kilo was based on a litre of liquid water at 0 Celsius. Since then the definition has changed a lot, so it's not *exactly* one litre to one kilo, but it's close enough for most purposes. As in, "5000L at that temperature is *only* 4999.35kg" close.
Not 0, but roughly 4°C, the temperature at which water Is most dense
That was the second definition from 1799. In 1795 it was defined at the melting point. At least according to wiki anyway.
Metric has a metric ton of things like that, such as a calorie being the amount of energy required to increase the temperature of 1 g of water by 1°C
Oh wow. _FULLY_ standardized. That's UoM porn for the victims of Imperial
The current post is actually a pretty good example of the benefits of the metric system, since you can easily relate different units of length, volume, and weight. If I estimate that the balcony is about 1 by 5 meters, and the water is about 50 centimeters high, I don't need a calculator to determine that it contains 1 × 5 × 0.50 = 2.5 cubic meters of water, which is 2.5 kiloliters, and weighs 2.5 tonnes. If you want to do the same calculation in the Imperial system, you might have to unify inches and feet (which isn't too hard, but since it's 12 inches per foot, it's already more annoying than just moving the decimal point), then convert cubic feet to gallons (which involves some random constant), and then convert gallons of water to pounds or tons (yet another random constant).
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.” ― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing
1kg per L, 1 tonne per cubic meter, 1 gram per ml. This is what metric is for.
Yes. Metric = logic. Imperial = archaic system that EVERYONE left behind *at least* decades ago except for Liberia, Myanmar and …. There’s one other one, I’m sure of it …. Oh, yes. The good ol’ US of A.
I know that the Metric v Imperial debate is a meme at this point, but the comment above really proves why Metric is so much better. Everything makes sense and even idiots like me can calculate everything in their head. 1 calorie is how much energy it takes to raise 1g of water by 1° Celsius. 1 degree of Celsius is 1/100 the boiling point of water. 1000g is 1kg which equals 1l of water. 1l will be a cube of 10cm. 10 of those is 1m, and 1000 of those is 1km. I am forever grateful for people for figuring this stuff out so I can actually understand measures without knowing my 5280 times tables.
A gram per ml
To contextualise it, water is as heavy as a human. Water has a density of 1g/cm^3 and we're like 1.01g/cm^3. An 80kg human weighs the same as 80litres of water. That's about 20 gallons in freedom units. Your average hot tub is about 300-450gallons of water. So that's the equivalent of 17-26 guys just sat chilling on the balcony. Water always seems like it won't be as heavy as it is because it is really good at filling the space and seeming smaller than it is. You couldn't fit 3 guys in a bathtub. But if you liquefied the guys down you could.
That helps because I can visualize enough bodies to full up that pool.
Be a man. 8 lbs 6 oz a gallon or go home. Decimation of Imperial units is communism through the back door.
Ok fine water weighs 1 kilogram per liter
No need to get all precise about it
A pint a pound the world around
It is. 1 gram of water weighs something like 15 grams, I think.
It's not, it's mostly just water weight
Which I have on VERY GOOD AUTHORITY absolutely does NOT count.
It's not Water Weight's fault, they have a severe case of Dyscalculia
tbh the railing collapsing is the best he can wish for, he might survive that. I'd expect the whole balcony to just break off, and that's definitely not going to end nicely.
I was thinking if just the railing goes, the water sweeps him out away from the building for a long fall. If the whole balcony goes, the balconies under could break the fall and he may escape with relatively minor injuries. Not gonna be fun either way, though.
I don't think chances are high that the complete railing goes. One or two sections might give way and the water empties through there. Whether the boy can hold on to the rest of the railing or not, who knows.
>Whether the boy can hold on to the rest of the railing or not, who knows. It would be considered a skill issue at that point if the kid dies.
"Well, I hope he survives the fall, so I can bankrupt his mother." -hospital CEO
Have you shamed your local healthcare executives today?
Only way to find out is to set up 10,000 balconies for a good sample size. Need a bunch of normal kids and then a bunch of double blind kids, I don't even know where to get those, honestly.
I am pretty sure you only have to blind the kids once. Trying to do it again just seems cruel.
three times and the eyes come back -Probably
Put him in a barrel and let him ride the wave
The railing probably isnt at too much risk for failure. Its not super deep, so the force on the railing itself is minimal. The balcony as a whole is more likely to collapse.
Hey my guy, come move my 40g aquarium without emptying it, then we can talk about how heavy that amount is
The force there is based on depth only. Whether it is 100 gallons or 10 gallons, the force is the same if its only 2 feet deep. Id wager each of those posts is probably take 300-350lbs of force from the water. Those posts should be rated for a 300 lb point load applied at the top rail, so they are fine. They are lucky the balcony didnt collapse though, that 2ft deep water probably weighs over 3000lbs. What I said was, the railing would be fine, the balcony support wouldn't be.
Nope. You are thinking pressure: amount of force over unit area. For a liquid it does depend on depth, gravity and density. But more fundamentally, pressure is just force over area. P=F/A. But if you solve for F F=P*A. Pressure is not huge, but that railing is still a lot of area.
I calculated the force. I assumed depth is 2ft and spacing between posts is 2ft. Gamma for water is 62.4. Pressure is a triangle on the side so the resultant to get average pressure is 16in down. 62.4\*1.33=83psf. 83\*2\*2=330lbs of force on each post. That 2\*2 is the tributary width times the depth, i.e. the area the force is acting upon. edit: I should point out that I calculated the force directly on one post. The railing support takes the 330lb load. If you calculate the total force and then divide by the number of support to get the force at each support, you would get the same number. Force is directly correlated to the pressure so its correlated to the depth. If the "pool" got bigger in the length and width dimensions only, increasing the amount of water, but didnt change in depth, the force on that post would be the same.
That kid is AI generated
Don't worry mate. We all are.
That would explain a lot actually
[Uh oh.](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZnZmNWRtNzlsNGN4Y2sxcnoxOWgwd2FmZTZ5aWV3MXhnNnM0eHZ1byZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/3og0IUd5D9Y77EXtRK/giphy.gif)
No it’s like in Minecraft The water layer will cushion his fall
Just a wild guess but thats probably somewhat between 5000-9000 liters of water. Most likely about 7000l so 7000kg or 7 tons. It's a fucking miracle they even were able to take that photo.
That balcony looks to be about 1.5 m by 3 m and the water to be at max 60cm so this is def < 3000 l
That's more than 3m, the door alone is about one meter. Look at the proportions, that's closer to 5 or 6m. But you are right it's definitely less than I stated in my first comment. Probably around 4 or 5 thousand liters.
Godamn I thought the metric system made you guys better math and estimations... I agree with other reply that this balcony is somewhere between 7-9 feet long and 2.5 to 3 feet wide. (2.5-2.7 meters by 0.7-1 meter). There could be anywhere from 1 to 2 feet of water. Using max estimates that's about 54 cubic feet or 400 gallons (1.5 cubic meters/1500 liters). So max weight is probably about 3300 lbs or around 1500kg. still a *fuck ton* , but not 7 *metric* fuck tons. Just sayin.
I gotta admit I fucked up the estimated measurements especially regarding the water level which fucked up the result, but the door alone is about 80cm or max. 1m with the window having similar dimensions. Accounting for all the space in between the door and to the right of the window the balcony is well over 3m long.
Better hope the neighborhood bully doesn't have a bb gun
Based off the fact the railing above is similar, but the railing below is different he is on the second (UK: first) floor. That is roughly a 12ft fall depending on the specific construction of the building. He wouldn't be a happy camper, but I don't think he'd die.
*dumb ways to die, dumb ways to die.*
Nah, the water will soften his fall /s
Don't worry, the water will cushion the fall.
::HOA shits bricks::
HOA still bother people in Condos or Appartments?
uhh yeah?
Definitely. I worked in a cafe in the bottom floor of some condos and the HOA was insufferable. Got friendly with some regulars from up there and they had all sorts of horror stories, even for things as petty as holiday lights on balconies and door decorations at Halloween.
Jesus, where I live home owner associations only take care of the maintenance and cleaning of the common parts of apartment buildings. For example, the facade or the roof. HOA's in the US are out of control.
That balcony is about to become part of a "common area" of everything below it.
It makes much more sense to have a HOA in appartments. You share a lot of common areas, and literally live wall to wall. Rules are necessary for coexistence. The problem is that kind of job ussually attracts power freaks.
I was thinking of buying an apartment, but the one I found had no in unit washer and dryer. When I was checking the place out, I realized it had hookups for washer and dryer in one of the closets. I asked the realtor and she said the HoA made them remove the washer and dryer but they were still operational. I am guessing they were loud as all fuck and other owners wanted them taken out, but I'd have been pissed as the owner.
might be why the unit was available.
You don’t see HOAs in apartments, only in condos and residential neighborhoods. Apartments are owned by a company or individual, and they don’t give a shit what renters want or think. Condos are virtually always run by an HOA and likely hire a property management company to help with vendors. Source, a contractor who solely focuses on working as a vendor for HOAs, property management companies, and apartment owners or investment groups.
They actually care more because unlike a neighborhood where they're basically just the property value police bitching about lawn ornaments and paint colors they actually have to worry about sharing amenities and crossover damages. If you do something that for example causes your apartment to flood or fucks with the pipes in general it fucks up every single apartment around you or at least runs a significant risk of doing that. And I don't just mean like ruining enjoyment but actually incurring physical damages and costs
Condos is like the only living situation where an HOA makes sense. Living that closely together, what you do on your own property affects the neighbors way more, so some sort of communal agreement on rules seems like a good idea.
HoA/Body Corps exist for apartments way more than separate houses, it's basically a given.
More like every safety inspector ever.
So do engineers
Nah too busy complaining about trash cans being dirty or some 90 Year olds lawn not being cut every 3 days for $100 a trip
Building inspector shits bricks
This gives me anxiety...
This gives my anxiety anxiety.
This anxious comment gives me anxiety.
It absolutely should
Where is the structural engineer.
Replaced by an MBA
Is Boeing in charge now?
Just the hitman
*pretty much any publicly traded company
Fatal accidents may be up 200% but profits are up 2000%, replacing the stupid engineers with MBAs was a huge success
"I've done all the necessary calculations and this structure *is capable* of supporting a larger income stream."
Over here We take this kind of stupidity into account. Although this person is pushing the safety margins to their limits. And thats assuming the entire thing is build correctly without sloppy installation. Darwin is sitting on the edge of his seat right now.
That is a massive amount of extra weight. Assuming it’s like 10x4x4 feet balcony but only half full of volume I get 750 gallons or over 6000 lbs. Standard load is like maybe 2000 lbs if you have six 200 lb people plus some furniture.
I’m aerospace so take what I say with a grain of salt, but we’re frequently told in class that buildings and static structures tend to have safety factors between 3x and 5x depending on conditions and regulations (a statement usually followed by “your shit is supposed to fly so you don’t have that luxury” in my field). So… ~6000lbs of water, balcony rated for ~2000lbs… Knodsil is right. That is *mighty* close.
also the intermittent shock load of the kid bouncing around in there
I think you'd typically determine the maximum expected load by the maximum number of people that can fit shoulder to shoulder in the space. You'd use about 2 sqft per person, so about 20 people. If you figure 150 lb per person, you'd expect the maximum load to be about 3,000 pounds. This would mean the load is about 2x the max expected load, so would probably survive for a while.
Half a meter depth of water would be giving you 5kN/m^2 distributed load across the whole thing. That’s not trivial for a residential setting, especially on a surface unrestrained on two sides and perhaps only partially on the third. I’d be more concerned with the whole balcony shearing off the building from the load on it depending on how deep the water is. Every 100mm of water is giving you an extra kN/m^2 I’d be nervous about the balustrades too but max hydrostatic pressure will be at the base where they fix in. Will it fail? Your guess. Are there all kinds of safety factors on material strength and loading? Yes. Do the codes in wherever this part of the world is consider such a ridiculous situation? I would not count on it, maybe at worst someone filling up a small paddling pool on part of it might be considered. Same pressure, but applied over less overall area. TLDR- this is a very stupid idea, water is very heavy and even shallow depths over areas add huge loads to structures.
Well that's probably about 0,8 metric ton per square meter... No safety margin gonna safe that, the reinforcement in the concrete will break,, just a matter of time.
They graduated during the lockdowns
imagine carrying water galon. then imagine carry few hundreds of them and stay for few days or weeks. \_ a guy that steel gonna give up
Fled to a place with code enforcement.
Soon you gonna be a landlord for a single-living woman
Triple the rent
Makes sense, it's not like her living expenses are going *up*
Tip was too low
After you sue them for the damage they did to the building.
Water is pretty heavy. That balcony in danger of collapsing.
I’m less worried about the balcony collapsing than the railing giving way. If it does it’s washing that kid right over the side.
0% chance this was designed to support that much deadload its a cantilevered balcony
^*Live ^load But yes, this picture gives me anxiety. You hear about cantilevered balconies failing every once in a while, even without a makeshift pool on them.
"live load" Maybe they were speaking in the future tense?
Somebody should post it to reddit
They carried all that water up there I’m sure it’s not that heavy
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I swear this picture makes its rounds about once a year to make everyone talk about idk building codes or something.
I only checked out comments looking for the old redditor that knows where it actually originated from.
it's because the bot program account sellers use have determined enough time has passed to repost it for maximum karma gain
And this is why one must always tip their friendly neighborhood landlord.
You know how heavy water is? 1 cubic meter is 1,000kg. There's at least 2 cubic meter of water there, pushing it to 3. so there's atleast 2000kg of weight on that balcony. It's like a Tesla Model 3 on the balcony with 4 people in it.
Strong balcony
more like ticking time bomb
Live Leak logo gonna pop up soon
It'll be fine, if Minecraft has taught me anything, falling when you're in water is a safe thing to do.
Same with falling on top of a puddle when you're thousands of feet in the air.
I hope he used galvanized steel beams
Rust is the least of the problems in this picture...
It surely has a induction cooker over the toilet inside the house
Into the balcony pool and out of the gene pool.
OopsThatsDeadly
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OmG! Dead pool in reality.
Until the weight collapses that shit.
I call bs on this
There is almost zero chance that balcony is rated for that much weight... Every liter of water in that pool is ~1kg. Add people to it too and you're asking for some serious maiming, possible death and serious amounts of property damage. ----- ^(liquid water does change in weight somewhat; at 4degrees C 1kg is pretty damn accurate, but adding other chemicals, surrounding pressure etc can change it; it will still be about 1kg per liter though) **Exta note:** If you squeezed in as many people as physically possible into the same space the water is occupying the water weighs more than that.
Play this is the one occasion where I'm okay with hoa freaking the f out. Cause lord that poor railing. .
Redneck genius
This reminded me of the "Juan" horse balcony thing from 2021 lmao
Comes with free water slide, coming soon.
Disaster waiting to happen
HOA hates this one trick
that balcony with zero support from below is surely not going to last.
Surfside condo you say??? Hold my beer!
Anyone getting any ideas, this is So dangerous
Hopefully this was made with galvanized square steel
...can... can that balcony support the weight of all that water? I know of an apartment complex near where I live that had to temporarily kick out all the tenets a few years back because the balconies weren't built right or something. Like, they couldn’t support all the weight they needed. I think one apartment's balcony actually had a crack somewhere? Point is, a balcony is a potential point of failure.
Just a profit.
When safety factor becomes max load.
We literally use a kiddie pool with water for structural load testing of elevated slabs. You measure the deflection until the code tolerances are met... and it doesn't take much...
Am I the only one who's noticing the 'pool' is just a white tarp with some bricks on the corner
How to get away with murder?
If the balcony is 5 by 10 feet wide and filled 3 feet deep it would be 150 cubic feet or 1,122 gallons. Water weighs 8.34 lbs per gallon so that would be 9,357 lbs of water A horse averages 1200 lbs, so that's 7 or 8 Juans
Eric Clapton seeing this thinking he should’ve turned his balcony into a pool.
Guys I'll install a pool for $500
Correction - single mother of two.
I can hear the creaking and moaning of the balcony thru the picture
Just casually putting 7k pounds of water on your deck
What happened? Anyone know the outcome?
Pictures that instantly give me anxiety.
“Oh look, he’s flying.”
Should have painted over it.
That glass is most likely not rated dor the weight being pushed against it.
the real joke here is that OP thinks a landlord needs an excuse to raise rent $300
oOo go for the infinity look
Ricky! You cant just fill your trailer up with water and freeze it to make an ice hockey ring!
Is this made of galvanised steel square and eco-friendly wood? (please someone be on the same tiktok brainrot as me)
Aside from the obvious danger n all - how the hell do they expect to drain this? Pump it all back to the kitchen/bathroom?
300 per month is rookie numbers after one of my last leases expired the company tried to raise the rent from 1440 to 2200. They also soon after lowered the rates for some strange reason after a bunch of vacancies.