I gave up with that scale and now weigh myself at the gym.
Weighing more on 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.
That artificially inflated the face weight of the misleading carpet it turns out the durable carpet is the denser more durable 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.
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.
If a scale is on carpet uneven tile or.
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.
Don t give up and keep trying.
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.
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.
So let s get to the ultimate question what face weight carpet should i buy.
This is mainly due to the imbalance that carpets cause.
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.
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.
Weighing more on tile than carpet digital scale.
The scales that you adjust with weights are more accurate and match what the doctor tells me.
It is a common understanding that a higher face weight means a more durable carpet.
I noticed my scale at home shows me weighing 3 pounds more in one spot then less in another.