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Originally Posted by woob
I have no idea how much they cost. I haven't seen them at all. I just thought it would be a sweet idea since my room is on the tiny side of small, and I'm not the biggest fan of loft beds.
Where could I go to have something like this fabricated and how would I be sure it would handle its own weight + my own?
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There's lot of metal fabricators around the city.
Last time I got something small done was at Blair Machine.
Not the most professional looking joint, but he seems to do decent work.
The shop can make sure it'll support your weight, matress etc, they've already got a rough idea how much stuff can take, and they can always over engineer it.
The real question you have to figure out is where the joists in your ceiling are and if they can handle the non-distributed load. Let me put it this way, normally, your flooring is plywood, then hardwood, laminate or tiles. This would distribute out the weight of even a heavy fridge. Each of those 4 legs of a the fridge would usually be distributed out over a wider area to at least 2 joists. What a ceiling mounted frame like that would be doing is putting the weight on a single point on 1 joist.
Before you start any design work, you need to figure out your existing conditions. Be prepared to cut into your ceiling to get measurements of joist spacing and size. Hopefully they are deep enough to support to added weight.