Which is Better: A Top or A Ground Floor?

When we look for an apartment, we usually ask ourselves questions such as: Is it better to live in a top or ground floor?



Each of the options has its advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, experts from the housing complex Ebbets Field Apartments experts will break them and analyze them, so that you can make the best decision and find the apartment of your dreams.

Pros and Cons of Living in a Top Floor


Although it seams strange, living in top floors puts us more in contact with nature and offers more privacy, since it separates us from the urban environment and places the apartment in a kind of urban island. So, among the advantages of living in a top floor in an apartment, Ebbets Field Apartments experts point out:

  • Access to free spaces
  • Less noise and pollution, which translates into peace and tranquility
  • More ventilation
  • Better views
  • Greater privacy
  • Better air
  • Less dust
  • Fewer insects
  • Greater security, less risk of theft
  • Spaces are better used because the columns are narrower.
  • Greater propensity to leak
  • Greater difficulty at the time of an emergency evacuation
  • Higher temperature in summer
  • More floors to go up, if the elevator fails or is under maintenance.
  • If the elevators break down or are under repair, there is no need to worry
  • Easier to evacuate at the time of an emergency
  • Easier to transport large objects
  • Easier access to services and shops
  • Access to free areas (in the case of depas on the first floor).
  • More dust
  • Less security
  • Less privacy
  • More noise and noise and visual pollution
  • Less ventilation and lighting
  • More pesky insects and animals
  • Increased risk of flooding
  • The spaces are used less because the columns are wider

On the other hand, among the disadvantages of an apartment a top floor, experts from Ebbets Field Apartments (read the history of the complex) point out:

  • Greater propensity to leak
  • Greater difficulty at the time of an emergency evacuation
  • Higher temperature in summer
  • More floors to go up, if the elevator fails or is under maintenance.

Pros and Cons of Living in a Ground Floor

Ebbets Field Apartments experts indicate that living an apartment on a ground floor can be comparable to living somewhere in the middle of a house and a condominium, since many areas have an independent entrance and duplex distribution, with the great advantage of being within the residential complex. In addition, other advantages would be:

  • If the elevators break down or are under repair, there is no need to worry
  • Easier to evacuate at the time of an emergency
  • Easier to transport large objects
  • Easier access to services and shops
  • Access to free areas.
Also, Ebbets Field Apartments experts point out the disadvantages of living in ground floor apartments:

  • More dust
  • Less security
  • Less privacy
  • More noise and noise and visual pollution
  • Less ventilation and lighting
  • More pesky insects and animals
  • Increased risk of flooding
  • The spaces are used less because the columns are wider

Before taking the final decision, decision, analyze both options. If you have any doubts, contact Ebbets Fields experts. More info about the complex you can find here.