Fear of falling through floor! Real or Not?

[Chin_Lee]

Originally Posted by deep6er

I have a 80 year old house and a 108 gal full of water in my computer room. I have an open ceiling down stairs so i am able to look at the joists. I went to go check to see if the floor has bent at all and it looks like its strait.
So for the guy with the 180 I think you have nothing to worry about.

Good luck

deep6er
i've seen some older 80 year old houses built better that some 20-30 year old houses. There was a period in the early 80s (when the interests were very high) where it seemed like the building codes were thrown out of the window.