Do Scales Weigh Heavier On Carpet

July 9 2015 3 13am pmm3437.

Do scales weigh heavier 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. When we tested this on trust me i m a doctor our volunteers appeared up to 10kg lighter when they placed the scales on carpet. The first one is always 1kg heavier then it evens out and the remaining weights are normally all the same. 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.

When you weight yourself on the carpet the readings can be much more than you actually weigh which can obviously be alarming if you re trying to lose weight. Sure enough they found they weighed in at around 10 per cent more on thick carpet than on the hard floor. To remedy this you ll either. 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.

As someone else said anything on carpet will be inconsistent because the carpet compresses differently in different spots around the scale i wouldn t trust it. To find out why pendergast took several sets of scales apart and measured the movement of.