Four Drawer Filing Cabinet Standard Weight
If you wonder how much a standard four-drawer filing cabinet weighs when full, the most precise answer may be a vague: "a lot." A regular, plain steel four-drawer filing cabinet, when empty, can weigh up to 150 pounds. Once it's full, it weighs significantly more. According to Conversion Technologies International, once it's filled with paper, a four-drawer filing cabinet may weigh approximately 440 pounds. However, some filing drawer slides can support up to 150 pounds per drawer, so it's conceivable for the same filing cabinet to weigh up to 750 pounds -- 150 pounds empty weight plus four drawers weighing 150 pounds. To further boggle the mind, if the filing cabinet is fireproof -- up to 800 pounds empty -- it could weigh about 1,400 pounds full. So, a full filing cabinet weighs a lot, no matter how many drawers it has.