How much does a gal. of water weigh?

[Bahco]

Does anybody care how much a gallon of water weighs

 

[2scoops0406]

swimming pool builders ?

 

[Bahco]

Fair play

 

[--tom]

1. Storage tanks on top of high rise buidings
2. Storage tanks in domestic lofts
3. Detailed Blg. Regs. ref. supporting water tanks
4. People asleep below collapsing scalding water tanks.
5. The Grand Coulee Dam.

However,tremendous response. Thank you all.

 

[kevplumb]

about the same as 15m of din rail

 

[oilman]

This shows the disgraceful state of the education system nowadays. This was the sort of thing we learnt in primary school ie before you moved to secondary school at 11. It seems --tom is asking questions of a type probably asked in homework exercises for tradesmen's training courses. This is not the best place to get the answers, READ BOOKS!!

 

[PaulAH]

Repeat after me: A gallon of water weighs 10lbs, a gallon of water weighs 10lbs...

These days it also costs ten pounds.

 

[ChrisR]

I'm with oilman on this.
Snag though would be that you'd get US gallons which are smaller than ours. Eddy needs to recalculate his hat for the local gallon.

 

[kevplumb]

 

[oilman]

These days it also costs ten pounds.

Only if you're barmy enough to buy from shops, in bottles, under the pressure from lying advertisments telling you it has wonderful attributes that tap water doesn't. Mine comes out of the tap at the rate of around £1/cu m. I was in a garage in the summer, and the bottles of water were DEARER than the fuel going into the cars.

 

[2scoops0406]

I'm with oilman on this.
Snag though would be that you'd get US gallons which are smaller than ours. Eddy needs to recalculate his hat for the local gallon.

Well, you've got a point I suppose. approx 52.48 cm or 1ft 9 inches then.

 

[PaulAH]

...the bottles of water were DEARER than the fuel going into the cars.

Some brands are dearer than milk. That's even more worrying.

In a blind test, at least half the panellists preferred one sample above all others. It was London tap water, left to rest and de-chlorinate for a couple of hours. More fool the suckers who buy this stuff.

 

[bathjobby]

Why didn't he just weigh the stuff !

 

[pipme]

One cubic foot of water equals 6.25 Imp gallons.
My old old Mini fuel tank held 5.5 gallons, but looked so much more than a cubic foot !!