The balcony is an excellent place for most families to raise turtles. It is a space with sufficient light and a relatively independent space. It has always been the first choice for raising turtles at home. In order to maximize the use of space, we mostly use shelves to stack three to four turtle tanks on top of each other to raise turtles. The load problem has actually been bothering many turtle friends. If there are more turtles and more water, the load will be larger.

In fact, many balconies do not have turtles. , there are a lot of suppressed news. Not to mention making a turtle tank, which often weighs hundreds of kilograms to one ton.

The country's load-bearing limit for balconies is There are clear regulations:

1. Static load: The weight of the balcony itself, including the weight of the balcony bottom plate, upper and lower plastering, railings, etc., the standard is 200kg/㎡.

2. Live load: the changing load-bearing capacity of the balcony. The national balcony load-bearing design standard is 250kg/㎡.

Commercial buildings are all installed with this standard design of reinforcement density, steel bar thickness, and floor slab thickness. When designing a house, it is generally designed based on 1.1 times the static load and 1.4 times the live load. However, in actual construction, some corners will be cut, so the load-bearing capacity is still around 250kg-300kg/㎡.

It can be seen that it is okay to raise turtles on the balcony. For example, if your balcony area is 8 square meters, there is no problem if you use a row tank to raise turtles. But if your balcony area is only 2 square meters and you want to raise turtles in high-density tanks, it would be very dangerous.

In addition, if the balcony is overweight, it will not collapse immediately. Overweight will accelerate the fatigue of the building, which will gradually cause the walls and floors to crack and deform, and the steel bars inside will not fall down. But over time, the steel bars inside will rust and break, and the entire balcony will fall.

In most cases, There is no problem in raising turtles on the balcony. Of course, the premise is that the quality of the project is good. If you encounter a shoddy project, you can only cry without tears. However, the load-bearing capacity of the home balcony itself is also limited, so it is best to keep turtles in moderation, also for safety. Don't be too greedy, otherwise there will be great danger.