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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Looking for light waterbed equivalen
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Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 12:20:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 12:20:35 1984
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Actually, I am tired of people who insist that the weight of a water bed
is going to cause problems.  Even the building I am in (one of these new
concrete and HoJo cinderblock arrangements) has a no waterbed clause in
the rules.  Odd, since they consider it an adult apartment complex.  The
problem here is east coast mind set.  No apartment manager Denver or west
would make such a rule.

An average water bed (king size) weighs in at about 800 pounds and covers
about 30 square feet.  Your living room sofa covers probably about 18 square
feet and only puts it weight in the corners rather than distributing it over
the entire 18 square feet.  Now have five of your friends sit on it.  Unless
they've all been on good diets you've now stressed the floor more than twice
what a water bed does.  Worried?  Of course not.

Actually, I've lived in older (circa 1915) appartment buildings and row
houses.  Those, I'd worry less about than the 1960 ticky-tacky box private
home.  

-Ron