Is the bottom floor the 'first floor', or is that the 'ground floor' and the next floor up is the 'first floor'?
3 Storey Building. Which Floor Is The First Floor?
Peck on 10/12/2022 - 22:33
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Yes, I spent a lot of time in USA, and South Aust. Not sure which I can blame for my mental confusion!
This post is right up there with next right and next Tuesday.
Is next up this guy, or the guy after this guy?
That was what got me thinking, which is the 'next' floor! And who's on first?
3 Storey Building. Which floor is the first floor?
They one they build first.
So b3?
How many lifts have you been in where there is no "Ground" floor button? Exactly.
There might be some very obscure exceptions out there, otherwise it pretty much always goes: G, 1, 2, 3, 4……
Sorry, my lift doesn't go all of the way to the top!
What.. your lift starts on Ground and only goes to Ground? Then that's not a "lift" man. That's your closet!
The lift goes horizontally…
some buildings have garage floors and the first actual floor might be the 3rd or 5th floor so I wouldn't say theres a hard and fast rule in Australia atleast, first floor could be floor "1" also
What does the lift button say
“I don’t care. Go ask someone who does.”
So ive lived in a unit once upon a time..
And on street level i can walk into the building.. and my apartment was towards the back..
But as the land slopes my unit block can be access via a laneway and my actual apartment was 2 floors up from there..
There are units in the block accessible from the back lane way.
But the address of the building is from the from street.
So technically im on ground level from the street but level 2 from the back.
No hard and fast rule what floor it is just call it whatever you want.
Or what the builder/ developer has nominated.Common usage says you're all wrong.
If someone says they live on the "second floor" on a multi-story building they usually mean the one you press "1" in the lift to get to.
So they call the ground floor the first floor in the USA, huh. I like it - that's rational. But then they don't have 13th floors cos of voodoo or something - it's hard to keep Americans rational for long.
I personally like the European numbering with ground being 0, then basements being -1,-2,-3 and the above-ground floors being 1,2,3.
Thing is with Australia, builders/designers can either use each one and it annoys me.
To me it's ground floor then level one as this makes logical sense.
If someone lives on the 4th floor, it's level 4 and button 4 on the elevator for me. Just makes so much sense.
I lived in a unit and ground floor was level 3 and the other side level 2. It was annoying for guests to exit to say, "to get out it's level 2 or 3".
The NEXT floor is the FIRST floor.
Ground is ground and the one above is first floor. Unless you're in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey