Flats - Best Floor for Cyclist to Live?
morxy
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If you had a choice of floors to live on, which would you choose? My thoughts...
1. Ground floor flat
Pros:
Can use turbo trainer without disturbing anyone. (Trainers commit vibrations to the floor, disturbing people below? People above aren't disturbed?) Easy access to outdoors - wheel the bike out for a quick wash and ride.
Cons:
More susceptible to burglary? Noise from upstairs neighbours talking, walking on noisy floorboards? Water leaks from upstairs. Colder in Winter? (Heat rises.) Easier for pests (insects, mice) to enter.
2. Top floor flat
Pros:
No water leakage or noise from anyone above (e.g. walking on floorboards). Warmer (heat rises). Safer from burglary?
Cons:
Have to carry bikes up and downstairs all the time (not a huge problem). No immediate access to outdoors for quick bike clean. Turbo trainer would affect person below.
3. Interior floor
Worst of both worlds? You have someone immediately above and below you: more noise. No direct access to outdoors (ground). Turbo trainer would annoy person below... Only plus I can see is vulnerability to burglary being lower than ground floor?
1. Ground floor flat
Pros:
Can use turbo trainer without disturbing anyone. (Trainers commit vibrations to the floor, disturbing people below? People above aren't disturbed?) Easy access to outdoors - wheel the bike out for a quick wash and ride.
Cons:
More susceptible to burglary? Noise from upstairs neighbours talking, walking on noisy floorboards? Water leaks from upstairs. Colder in Winter? (Heat rises.) Easier for pests (insects, mice) to enter.
2. Top floor flat
Pros:
No water leakage or noise from anyone above (e.g. walking on floorboards). Warmer (heat rises). Safer from burglary?
Cons:
Have to carry bikes up and downstairs all the time (not a huge problem). No immediate access to outdoors for quick bike clean. Turbo trainer would affect person below.
3. Interior floor
Worst of both worlds? You have someone immediately above and below you: more noise. No direct access to outdoors (ground). Turbo trainer would annoy person below... Only plus I can see is vulnerability to burglary being lower than ground floor?
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I like living on a top floor flat myself - it's only a 2 storey block (with shops on ground level so there's a wee area to muck about on 1 floor up) & no reason for anyone to be lurking outside in the close area either. Although the roof is the original one & will most probably blow off sometime within the next few months if the weather stays the same, which would obviously affect me first!
On the insurance matter - Marks & Spencer home insurance is pretty good, don't need to specify if bikes are to be covered unless any are worth over 4k, covers use outside the home too.
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spen666 wrote:Real cyclists own a house
Harrumph, I'm therefore not a real cyclist. Yet, strangely it feels real to me.
Anyhow, I'm a council tenant on the 4th floor - 67 steps, no lift. Dead quiet, nice view - I can see the Greenwich Observatory and Flamsteed House, I can see when the tide's in.
Once I'm up here, I'm dead happy.
But on the way home from a ride I almost always pick up some shopping because of the 67 steps. And then I curse the 67 steps because of the weight of the shopping, the bike and the unbearable heaviness of being after a ride. But then I reward myself with the best cup of tea on earth in my cheap, quiet flat with a view and life is good again.
That said, I'd pay for secure sheds downstairs - I could pick up more shopping and still get back up the stairs.0 -
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Ah lucky you, greenwich way is the friendliest place I've stayed on my visits to that London and quite scenic too. Deptford is one of the seminal places in fingerprint history, the first murder convictions based on Fingerprint evidence stemmed from a botched robbery there. (Yeah hands up I'm sad)deptfordmarmoset wrote:spen666 wrote:Real cyclists own a house
Harrumph, I'm therefore not a real cyclist. Yet, strangely it feels real to me.
Anyhow, I'm a council tenant on the 4th floor - 67 steps, no lift. Dead quiet, nice view - I can see the Greenwich Observatory and Flamsteed House, I can see when the tide's in.
Once I'm up here, I'm dead happy.
But on the way home from a ride I almost always pick up some shopping because of the 67 steps. And then I curse the 67 steps because of the weight of the shopping, the bike and the unbearable heaviness of being after a ride. But then I reward myself with the best cup of tea on earth in my cheap, quiet flat with a view and life is good again.
That said, I'd pay for secure sheds downstairs - I could pick up more shopping and still get back up the stairs.0 -
heat does not rise. warm air/gas does.0
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That said, I'd pay for secure sheds downstairs - I could pick up more shopping and still get back up the stairs.[/quote]
I live on the sixth floor and my building does have a secure room for bikes in the basement but I still carry it up the stairs.
It's not so much that I'm worried about it getting stolen, more that I don't like the thought of other people knocking it about with their bikes.0 -
Top floor every time, purely for the extra security.
Get a decent rubber mat for the turbo or actually ride rather than torturing yourself!0 -
shouldbeinbed wrote:(
Ah lucky you, greenwich way is the friendliest place I've stayed on my visits to that London and quite scenic too. Deptford is one of the seminal places in fingerprint history, the first murder convictions based on Fingerprint evidence stemmed from a botched robbery there. (Yeah hands up I'm sad)deptfordmarmoset wrote:spen666 wrote:Real cyclists own a house
Harrumph, I'm therefore not a real cyclist. Yet, strangely it feels real to me.
Anyhow, I'm a council tenant on the 4th floor - 67 steps, no lift. Dead quiet, nice view - I can see the Greenwich Observatory and Flamsteed House, I can see when the tide's in.
Once I'm up here, I'm dead happy.
But on the way home from a ride I almost always pick up some shopping because of the 67 steps. And then I curse the 67 steps because of the weight of the shopping, the bike and the unbearable heaviness of being after a ride. But then I reward myself with the best cup of tea on earth in my cheap, quiet flat with a view and life is good again.
That said, I'd pay for secure sheds downstairs - I could pick up more shopping and still get back up the stairs.
Yup, Deptford High Street. But I can't remember the number off the top of my head, though for some reason the (completely unresearched) number 43 springs to mind. This probably means it was number 149.
EDIT: damn my numerical dyslexia, it wasn't 43, it was 34! http://carolineld.blogspot.com/2008/09/ ... rints.html0 -
I live in a split level apartment on the top floor of a 2 story block.
Small flat in a beautiful area but even so, I carry my bike up with me every time.
No turbo trainer, flat is genuinely too small for that. But I know if I did I'd certainly disturb the neighbour below me, so it doesn't make a difference anyway.
My flat IS warmer than his. I know because I've made the comparison. And being on the top floor, I get a massive attic for all my impulse buys. so it also means I could have a loft conversion if I had the dosh.
TOP FLOOR gets my vote every time...0 -
I live in a split level apartment on the top floor of a 2 story block.
Small flat in a beautiful area but even so, I carry my bike up with me every time.
No turbo trainer, flat is genuinely too small for that. But I know if I did I'd certainly disturb the neighbour below me, so it doesn't make a difference anyway.
My flat IS warmer than his. I know because I've made the comparison. And being on the top floor, I get a massive attic for all my impulse buys. so it also means I could have a loft conversion if I had the dosh.
TOP FLOOR gets my vote every time...0 -
Ground for me, I can blast my music and walk out without touching stairs, win win.0
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itchieritchie wrote:No turbo trainer, flat is genuinely too small for that
Not true at all. My old place would have been too small for a turbo but I was able to......although it did involve moving the desk and bed everytime I wanted to. Fact remains, if its big enough to live in, its big enough to turbo in!0 -
I live on ground floor and have a front door that opens out onto the street, which is very convenient for taking the bike out. Unfortunately no one else seems to agree. Has been on the market 3 months now and not even a hint of interest.
Also, gravity can be a pain. My upstairs neighbour is a moron and throws me presents out his bathroom window. Worst item so far has been a used condom that the filthy lying cretin denied all knowledge of. Weird that it was placed in the exact same spot that your toothbrush, boxer shorts and whatever else you put on the windowsill ends up every few days. I spend way too much time plotting his torture and eventual murder.0 -
I'd rather love in a cardboard box in the North than in a luxury top floor, ground floor or any other floor apartment in London.
But then that's just me
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I'm on the top floor of student accommodation
never had a problem with stair, i don't have rollers or turbo but if i did then they'd probably be in the kitchen.
i haven't ever had a problem with stairs, well, not since i was about one and a half :PGo for the break
Create a chaingang
Make sure you don't break your chain0 -
I live in a first floor flat (so the top in my case) and I dont mind the stairs, as for the turbo its all about compromise. I spoke to the woman downstairs and found out when she's out and do my turbo sessions then.Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.0
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how do you flat dwellers manage after a wet ride with carrying a cacked up bike through the communal areas - do you get any grief from the other residents?0
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Grahamcp wrote:how do you flat dwellers manage after a wet ride with carrying a cacked up bike through the communal areas - do you get any grief from the other residents?
When I lived in Edinburgh, I was top floor; 62 steps to the front door. The stairwell, being an early Victorian property had very wide stairs and getting the bike up and down was not an issue.0 -
As mentioned above, house would be (and is) my choice.
Failing that, top floor flat for security and (hopefully) access to loft and/or roof (arsing about on the roof of any building appeals to the child in me).
Only problem is that neighbours beneath probably won't like subwoofer when PS3 is on...0
