Stacking tiles, how high is safe?

[anders07]

I have just over 120 sqm of tiles 30x60cm 12mm thick lined up in the garage, but now they are on edge and two packages on top of each other.
If I were to stack them in a normal pile instead, how many packages would it be safe to stack on top of each other?

A package with 6 tiles weighs 40 kg... Insanely heavy...

 

[nino]

No idea, but you rarely have more than a ton on a pallet, there are 25 pkts on the surface

 

[Johan Gunverth]

I have just over 120 sqm of tiles 30x60cm 12mm thick lined up in the garage but now they are on edge and two packages stacked on top of each other.
If I were to stack them normally instead, how many packages can I safely put on top of each other?

A package with 6 tiles weighs 40 kg... Insanely heavy...

There are usually symbols on the package indicating how they can be stacked. It's doubtful if you can even lay a single package on another if you mean stacked on top of each other. Stand them on edge and strap them together with a tie-down strap per layer.
1200kg on a regular full pallet (EUR)

 

[Micro]

Isn't it 1000kg point load and 1500kg evenly distributed load that the pallet takes? That's how we do it at work anyway..

 

[Johan Gunverth]

Isn't it 1000kg point load and 1500kg evenly distributed load that the pallet takes??
That's how we do it at work anyway..

Completely correct. I relied on older information and that pallets in use have 48 6x8 layers of 25kg bags

 

[anders07]

That thing with the tension straps was pretty smart... I had been thinking about some form of rack...
When they were delivered, there were "wooden boxes" with two packages stacked vertically on top of each other. I can't remember how many packages there were per pallet, but there were three pallets in total...
Now they've been lined up along the walls in the garage for three years, and I'm starting to get tired of them... Now there's some hope that I'll manage to lay them this year but, but...