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Definitely always aim to rent the apartment on the ground floor, in the middle of the building.
by db48x 5y ago
Definitely always aim to rent the apartment on the ground floor, in the middle of the building.
- darkwater 5y agoWhy ground floor? Heat flows to the top, it's better to have someone behind who's heating their own apartment.
- 7steps2much 5y agoOn the ground your floor is either a basement or well, the ground. Whereas on higher floors your floor is another apartment and your roof (might) be the actual buildings roof. Heat leaves far more easily if there is air on the other side of the wall and(!) you have the benefit of ground isolating you on the bottom floor
- darkwater 5y agoI was clearly implying that there has to be another apartment on top of yours (so, a 3 floors building). If you compare ground floor vs top floor, then ground floor wins hands on, I agree.
- vgeek 5y agoThe unit above acts as an insulator, so you have a heated/cooled unit above you versus outside temperature. The ground itself is a fairly good insulator, too.
- db48x 5y agoAll of those reasons _plus_ there are no stairs!
- sokoloff 5y agoHot air rises; heat doesn't. Heat moves from warm to cold. You would way rather have a heated space above your ceiling than a non-heated space. In many buildings, the mechanical systems are in the basement and whatever is carrying the heat runs up through the lower units. My old apartment in Cambridge was first floor and the 2nd and 3rd floor ducts were inside my living space and closets. On mild days, I could leave my heat entirely off and just the radiation and small leakage from their ducts was enough to keep my place comfortable. (The furnaces were all atmospheric gas burners with plenty of residual heat leaking into the basement as a result, making it an inadvertently heated space beneath as well.)
- emerged 5y agoSounds great if you love to hear neighbors through the ceiling and walls.
- db48x 5y agoI do occasionally hear my neighbors. Sometimes a loud movie from next door, or a party, but rarely bothersome. Plumbing noises are much more common. Oddly, I don’t recall ever hearing a vacuum cleaner…
- Ekaros 5y agoDepends where you live. Here the apartments outside bathroom floor heating are usually collectively heated and paid... So actually not using the heat is subsidising others... So heavily depends on where you live, what type of heating is used and if heating is billed per use.
- ectopod 5y agoMy ground floor apartment has thin laminate flooring over low quality planks over the freezing void below. This floor is very cold in the winter. Noise from above isn't great either. Not recommended.
- db48x 5y agoHeh, ok. I guess if your apartment is built over a freezing void, then the “ground floor” might be a drawback.
- cortesoft 5y agoI loved my 8th floor apartment I used to have. It had an amazing balcony with a view of the ocean. I would have had a view of a wall if I was on the first floor.