Where is the first floor?

[Lysander]

You walk into a building, you know you have to go to the first floor.

But do you need to use a lift or stairs to get to the first floor?

 

[GhostWKD]

Welcome to the ground floor, first floor is up a level

 

[Yaayuh!]

But do you need to use a lift or stairs to get to the first floor?

Yes.

 

[something daft already!!]

Stairs as using a lift to go up one level is incredibly lazy.

Those funny transatlantic chaps call the ground floor, the first floor.

 

[platypus]

That would depend on whether there were stairs available.

I think the rather (dull) question you're asking is if the ground floor exists, which, yes it does. Silly Americans.

 

[robgmun]

Yes, the first floor is the one above the ground floor

Ameh'icans think the first floor is the ground floor, *sigh*

 

[AJK]

You can choose to use either the lift or stairs, or an escalator if one is provided - up to you.

[ Ground floor is 0. First floor is the first floor above the ground. In the UK anyway. ]

 

[Vulcan]

Ameh'icans think the first floor is the ground floor, *sigh*

Well that's because it's the first floor you come to.

 

[Judgeneo]

Well that's because it's the first floor you come to.

First surface, not first floor.

 

[Lysander]

First surface, not first floor.

Is the ground floor not a floor?

 

[^JP^]

It depends if it's made of aluminium or aluminum

 

[Judgeneo]

Is the ground floor not a floor?

It is, I'm just being awkward.



Its the ground floor because we count from the floors from 0. Walk into a building, you are on the 0th floor - otherwise called the ground floor.

 

[Yaayuh!]

You walk in on the ground and go up to floor 1. It's the first floor up from the ground.

 

[Gilly]

We're the stupid ones on that score. Ground floor is idiotic, it's the 1st floor of the building.

 

[Judgeneo]

We're the stupid ones on that score. Ground floor is idiotic, it's the 1st floor of the building.

Count from zero, n00b

 

[mrk]

Whatever next.

 

[Lysander]

We're the stupid ones on that score. Ground floor is idiotic, it's the 1st floor of the building.

But it's the first floor up.

 

[Theophany]

Well, this has been educational.

 

[Gilly]

But it's the first floor up.

Why should that matter.

Lower Ground is stupid as well. It's not Lower Ground. Just like Ground isn't Ground. It's the 1st floor.

 

[Efour]

i thought lower ground was the basement ?