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Which floor is best to live on?

AngelEyes91
AngelEyes91 Posts: 50 Forumite
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in House buying, renting & selling
Hello all,

I am currently looking at purchasing a Shared Ownership flat and I'm wondering which floor is the best to live on? I guess they all have their pros and cons but just in your opinion if you've lived in a block it would be great to hear.

Thanks in advance :)
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  • phill99
    phill99 Posts: 9,093 Forumite
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    There is no one answer to this. There are pros and cons as you say. But you need to determine what is best for YOU.
    Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.
  • easterbunni
    easterbunni Posts: 146 Forumite
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    Where there is no one stamping around above you!
  • jonnygee2
    jonnygee2 Posts: 2,086 Forumite
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    The top floor, whichever that one is! (unless no lift). No noise from above.
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    Ours is the middle floor of three (four if you count the basement) in a Victorian conversion. It's ideal as there's no worries about rising damp, nor about the roof leaking. I wouldn't want ground floor as it's too easy for potential burglaries. Top floor too many stairs.

    My current upstairs neighbour is great, we are good friends, and I never hear any noise. I do worry about what if she sells up though.
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    You OK tramping up endless flights of stairs with the shopping?
    Or prefer hopping out of the taxi & in through the front door?

    Like a nice view? Or not bothered?
    Security an issue? Scared to leave the bedroom window open on the ground floor....?
    What about those noisy people above you practicing their tap-dancing?
    Upstairs is cosy - all that heat rising up from the flat below!


    The choise is yours!
  • parkrunner
    parkrunner Posts: 2,610 Forumite
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    1st or 2nd, when the lift breaks down you don't want to be on the 10th for two weeks.
    It's nothing , not nothink.
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 25,939 Forumite
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    parkrunner wrote: »
    1st or 2nd, when the lift breaks down you don't want to be on the 10th for two weeks.

    It could take a few seconds off your 5k time if you were on the tenth floor.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • RelievedSheff
    RelievedSheff Posts: 12,562 Forumite
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    If we had to have a flat it would be top floor every time for us.

    No chance of having heavy footsteps or other noise upstairs.

    You should also benefit from the fact that heat rises resulting in lower energy Bill's.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I'm now looking at flats... wasn't before/ever/until now.

    I wondered the same.... but I had very specific criteria for each of them.

    I've now decided only a ground floor flat will do as that's "more like a house" - and I can't bear the thought of perpetually and single-handedly lugging everything up and down stairs, or in lifts.... so a top floor's out of the question. If it were a top floor, I'm only looking at those with large/wrap around roof terraces. HATE feeling "trapped" in four walls.
  • LilElvis
    LilElvis Posts: 5,835 Forumite
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    Irrespective of floor I wouldn't want to live in a flat which was near to the door to the stairs or the lift due to all the additional noise. Ditto for proximity to front door and communal mail box area.
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