Ground Floor apartment - yes or no?

Kynthia

I'm currently living in a ground floor flat in a ten year old block. I used to live in a second floor flat in a conversion.

With the ground floor I have less privacy as people can see in the windows. Also I don't feel I can leave the windows open at night when it's really hot, although it doesn't get as hot as the higher up flat. It's great not having to carry shopping up two flights of stairs and I see parent's with children struggling up. Moving furniture in and out is easier. I really love having a garden when the flats above have balcony's. We have barbeques with friends and it's safe for children.

Sell the benefits when showing people round.

dizziblonde

I lived in a ground floor flat for years. The security thing never really bothered me apart from one aspect - my bedroom window didn't look out into the locked yard, but was accessible from the street if you get what I mean, and the windows were the type that just swung out to open up fully, so I never ever managed to cope with sleeping with the bedroom window open for fear that someone could quite easily reach through the window and throttle me... irrational perhaps but the thought of it did unsettle me quite a lot at times - other than that - no problems since the other windows in the flat all opened out into the locked communal yard - meaning the only issue I had was a less than picturesque view of the neighbour's crusty underpants drying on the washing lines in the shared yard as he'd put his drying out and forget about it for a fortnight.

breadlinebetty

niceguyed wrote: »

I'm comparing ground floor flat with those above not a house. Keep up.

For instance in the complex where I let mine out there is a brick perimeter wall. On a couple of the ground floor flats this obscures the view to the downstairs bathroom windows so it is not visible from the street. In some apartment blocks there is extra security to gain access to the upstairs floors (a key or code is needed for the door or lift).

I don't need to keep up, Sweetie - I'm ahead.

I was making COMPARISONS of all properties for the OP. It's YOU who needs to keep up:)

breadlinebetty

Kynthia wrote: »

I'm currently living in a ground floor flat in a ten year old block. I used to live in a second floor flat in a conversion.

With the ground floor I have less privacy as people can see in the windows. Also I don't feel I can leave the windows open at night when it's really hot, although it doesn't get as hot as the higher up flat. It's great not having to carry shopping up two flights of stairs and I see parent's with children struggling up. Moving furniture in and out is easier. I really love having a garden when the flats above have balcony's. We have barbeques with friends and it's safe for children.

Sell the benefits when showing people round.

The ground floors of a house have the same problem with passers-by being able to see in. The answer to that is venetian blinds or nets.:)

breadlinebetty

dizziblonde wrote: »

I lived in a ground floor flat for years. The security thing never really bothered me apart from one aspect - my bedroom window didn't look out into the locked yard, but was accessible from the street if you get what I mean, and the windows were the type that just swung out to open up fully, so I never ever managed to cope with sleeping with the bedroom window open for fear that someone could quite easily reach through the window and throttle me... irrational perhaps but the thought of it did unsettle me quite a lot at times - other than that - no problems since the other windows in the flat all opened out into the locked communal yard - meaning the only issue I had was a less than picturesque view of the neighbour's crusty underpants drying on the washing lines in the shared yard as he'd put his drying out and forget about it for a fortnight.

What you should of done was had those childproof locks fitted to your front windows - you can still open the windows but not enough for a person to climb through them - even a child,:)

The_Negotiator

breadlinebetty wrote: »

What you should of done was had those childproof locks fitted to your front windows - you can still open the windows but not enough for a person to climb through them - even a child,:)

How many milliseconds would that protect the window? One pull and it would be open.

breadlinebetty

The_Negotiator wrote: »

How many milliseconds would that protect the window? One pull and it would be open.

Have you ever tested those locks? They have to comply to very tough safety standards in order to prevent the loss of a child's life. Those locks are as tough as anything!

If some were to try and break it they'd be heard. If the occupier was STILL concerned even with the locks on, they could also fit window alarms.:money:

The_Negotiator

Multipoint locking systems can be overcome without much bother, I don't think a child restraint lock will take much if any effort.