Floor Or Storey

Buildings are often classified as low rise mid rise and high rise according to how many levels they contain but these categories are not well defined.

Floor or storey. That building is 10 stories high and we live on the 9th floor. Why do americans always want to complicate. A single storey house is often referred to particularly in the united kingdom as a bungalow the tallest skyscraper in the world burj khalifa has 163 floors. So the ground floor is the first storey never story and the first floor the second storey.

Storey is the exterior concept. A level of a building. Middle english anglo latin historia picture decorating a building a part of the building hence floor story. More about story and storey the plural of story is stories the plural of storey is storeys for example.

See story 1 sto ry ˈstɔr i ˈstoʊr i n. The ground flor is at ground level and the first floor is abve that. Of a building having two floors or levels meaning pronunciation translations and examples. Houses commonly have only one or two floors.

The terms floor level or deck are used in a similar way except that it is usual to talk of a 14 storey building but the 14th floor. Here the word storeys is only correct for brits. Floor is the interior concept. The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor in many places.

Location location location multi level homes offer many benefits but they also have a few inherent drawbacks such as heating costs. The first storey is at ground level and second storey is the one above. The words storey and floor exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings. Chiefly british variant of story2.

With 163 storeys the burj khalifa in dubai is the tallest building in the world.