Method

How we research and choose

The short version: we publish figures we can source, we band every verdict because the inputs are bands, and we would rather show a gap than a guess.

Where the numbers come from

Flat constraints come from India's National Building Code 2016 (ceiling heights, door widths, accessibility clearances), IS 875 Part 2 (floor live loads), the IS 14665 family and CPWD guidance (lift car sizes), and published ceiling-fan mounting practice. Each row on the reference page carries its source and our confidence in it.

Equipment figures are read from the amazon.in listing specification table.

Every figure is plausibility-checked

Listing data is unreliable. We have seen a treadmill listed with an 18 kg maximum user weight, a 10 cm wide running machine, and a home gym rated to 450 kg. So each figure is checked against the physical envelope of its equipment class, and anything that fails is published as not published with the reason, never quietly corrected.

Why verdicts are bands

Manufacturers almost never publish a running-deck height, and ceiling fan drop varies with the downrod. Precision we do not have would be false confidence on something that can hurt you, so we compute across the plausible range and report the worst case.

What we refuse to do

• No paid placement, and no brand has ever influenced a verdict.
• No prices on this site — they go stale, and Amazon's terms rightly forbid it.
• No invented specifications. A missing figure stays missing.
• No claim that something is safe. We report clearance; you measure your room.

A caution worth repeating

Fit verdicts are guidance computed from published figures. Delivery cartons are larger than assembled machines. Older buildings vary. Running loads a slab dynamically in a way a static calculation does not capture. Measure, and ask your building manager if you are unsure.