Weighing More On Carpet

Weighing more on tile than carpet digital scale.

Weighing more on carpet.

So i know its been shown that scales often show you weigh more when you put them on a carpet compared to a hard surface but regardless of that when i recently moved house my scales went into my carpetted room as my housemate hates scales. The scales that you adjust with weights are more accurate and match what the doctor tells me. If a scale is on carpet uneven tile or. Don t give up and keep trying.

This is unfortunate and somewhat misleading since it leads consumers to believe that face weight is the most important criteria for determining the quality of a carpet. You want at least a 35 ounce face weight carpet. It is a common understanding that a higher face weight means a more durable carpet. So let s get to the ultimate question what face weight carpet should i buy.

It just had a lower face weight because its strands are shorter. Why we weigh more when the scales are on a carpet so mackay and his student jon pendergast brought in some standard analogue bathroom scales and tried them out on different surfaces. That artificially inflated the face weight of the misleading carpet it turns out the durable carpet is the denser more durable carpet. Unfortunately when your scale is on a carpeted floor the carpet presses up against your weight making the reading come across as higher than your actual weight.

To remedy this you ll either need to take your scale somewhere with a flat surface or you ll need to create a hard surface to set your scale on. I gave up with that scale and now weigh myself at the gym. I didn t weigh my self for a while then what with the stress of moving and when i did i saw i d put on 5kg. This is mainly due to the imbalance that carpets cause because the scale needs a non compressible surface underneath.

I noticed my scale at home shows me weighing 3 pounds more in one spot then less in another. However research shows that people who weigh themselves often are more likely to lose weight than those who weigh themselves rarely or not at all.