Weighing Scales On Carpet Or Hard Floor
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.
Weighing scales on carpet or hard floor. Or was your first weigh in on a hard. 3 fitbit super smart wi fi scales that work on carpet. This weighing scale is very much the future of bathroom weight scales giving deadly accurate feedback on weight works well on carpet or hard floors. If the carpet floor and the hard floor are in different locations then a spring scale also needs a gravity map to calibrate the result to perfection.
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. Have it in the same spot that it weighed you at 233lb and see if the scale reads the weight properly. That said the scales i ve got even on the bathroom hard floor it varies from spot to spot even a cm movement causes 2kg difference which isnt great for tracking weight loss. The possibility exists that a mineralization anomaly starts beneath the carpeted room in your house and that the results could be reversed.
The manufacturers calibrate the scales on a hard surface not a carpet. And this makes sense says mackay as more people have easy access to a solid floor than to a deep shag pile carpet. Were you always weighing in on the carpet. If so maybe it was off by 10lbs when you started.
Think when i put my scales on the carpet and tried for whatever reason it was about 40kg difference. Also if it is moved alot it can mess up the readings.