Is weight limits on dining chairs a thing?

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I'm looking for new dining chairs (struggling somewhat) and stumbled across the odd chair with a max weight limit listed (most don't have one listed).

The max limit is almost always 100-110kg - about 16-17 stone.

I'm under the weight (although only by a stone or two) which makes me think of all our 6ft5 rugby massive boys in my circle....my relative who is significantly bigger than me....you get the drift.

Not sure why it never really occurred to me.

Now I'm in a tizz. Like any chairs I buy will have people collapsing under them if they are bigger than me....

Has this always been a thing?

I suspect like pushchairs that that's the maximum it has to be tested to in the country it's tested / produced in.

Exactly the same pushchairs are labelled that they hold vastly different masses depending on the country they are sold in.

The chair regulations are EN 12520 and EN 1022 which requires testing up to 110kg (over 17 Stone).

Yes all furniture has weight limits, they are generally around the 15 or 16 stone mark, some a bit more

Garden furniture, camping furniture/beds, armchairs, per seat on a sofa, dining chairs wont be any different but if you have solid wooden chairs they're ok. My step daughter broke an ikea dining chair once, she might have just been over the limit but I suspect they're just too flimsy, it was the plastic seated ones with the wooden legs

When I was bigger, furniture gave me the heebie jeebies! Trying to find camping stuff I wouldnt be at risk of breaking wasnt easy

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/groensta-chair-in-outdoor-white-70519763/

These say up to 110kg too, but Ive had these in a number of airbnb we have stayed in, both here and abroad and they're unbelievably flimsy.

Hmmm what would everyone else do? Buy something they liked and hoped for the best? Or start asking everyone what their weights are just to be sure? (Some people in the house are big - not massive but I don't know their weight!)

You dont know the weights of people in your own house?

We have solid wooden chairs but thats not to everyones taste, our house is quite traditional looking. They're as solid as a rock

Just to add, you can get stuff that has higher limits, so garden furniture, we got LaFuma chairs, they come in XL with a massive weight limit.

Similarly with sofas, you can find them with bigger limits.

I don't know what my husband or my adult sons weigh no!!!

All I know is they are nearly a foot taller than me and broad, rugby types. I'm sure they'll weigh more than me and I'm only a stone or two from the limit listed.

Fair enough. Are your sons adults? I suppose perhaps you wouldnt know, surprised you dont know your husbands weight though

If they are very tall and rugby players they're probably more than 17 stone I would guess.

cant you ask them?

I could. We also have a lot of extended family over a lot and I reckon some of them are over too.

I'm just quite shocked the weight limit is so low given the general population to be honest - if I had to hazard a guess - it would have been much higher!

Well I was over 120kg at one point, it was a nightmare to be honest. And yes that is very fat, particularly for a woman but the whole population is massive these days so I couldnt work out why its so low

Yes difficult if relatives come, cant exactly ask them!

My wife is very very large (size 30 ish)- we have old pine chairs (approx 40 years old), and they are absolutely fine.

We also have average high street/ikea which are holding up fine.