Board 8 > How are apartments numbered in America?

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Like, in a building with loads of apartments, do they have a specific numbering system so you know which apartment is on which floor?

Like 1A would be apartment one on the first floor for example?


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FAHtastic posted...
Like, in a building with loads of apartments, do they have a specific numbering system so you know which apartment is on which floor?

Nope

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Some buildings do, some don't. There really isn't a set standard for how they should be numbered.

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it is different depending on the apartment building/complex

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Ok, well what about on one floor? Do they at least follow a certain order there or is just, like:

1-8 = first floor
9-16 = second floor
17-24 = third floor, etc?

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for apartment buildings with several levels, it is usually 101, 201, 301, 401, etc depending on the floor. sometimes there will be a letter on the end.

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Most of the apartments around here will be numbered something 101 for the first apartment on the first floor, 201 for the first on the second etc. and if they have multiple buildings they are labeled by letter. I kinda thought it was like that everywhere.

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KingButz posted...
for apartment buildings with several levels, it is usually 101, 201, 301, 401, etc depending on the floor. sometimes there will be a letter on the end.

Thank you! This is what I was thinking of.

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From: KingButz | #006
for apartment buildings with several levels, it is usually 101, 201, 301, 401, etc depending on the floor. sometimes there will be a letter on the end.

And for apartment complexes, the buildings usually have their own letter. So there will be an A 101 and a B 101.

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First number usually denotes floor. You might run into it denoting a building entrance though and a b c d denoting the apartment(these only have like 2 floors though)

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Depends what you think it means.

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It's entirely dependent on the apartment building/complex.

In my old apartment, I lived in S-50. S was the building in the complex; all the apartments in my building were S-something, the R building was across the way from us, and the other buildings all had letters too. The 5 meant it was on the 5th floor, and the 0 was for which apartment on the floor I was. So next to mine was S-51, while the apartment directly above mine was S-60 and the one directly below was S-40.

In my current apartment, I live in apartment 91 on the first floor. Next door is apartment 92, and on the second floor there's 93 and 94, and on the third floor there's 95 and 96. The building next to ours has 97 and 98 on the first floor, 99 and 100 on the second, and 101 and 102 on the third. It's all just numbered from 1 to whatever across all the buildings in the complex.

Some friends of mine live in apartment 3C. In their building this means they're on the 3rd floor in the C apartment, there also being an A apartment and a B apartment on the same floor. So the other people on their floor live in 3A and 3B, while the people above them live in 4C and the people below in 2C.

Literally no standards. The floor number is PRETTY common, but by no means universal.

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Dauntless Hunter posted...
In my current apartment, I live in apartment 91 on the first floor. Next door is apartment 92, and on the second floor there's 93 and 94, and on the third floor there's 95 and 96. The building next to ours has 97 and 98 on the first floor, 99 and 100 on the second, and 101 and 102 on the third. It's all just numbered from 1 to whatever across all the buildings in the complex.

That's like how where I live now is. I live in no. 11, downstairs is 9 and 13, ground floor is 7.

I literally have no idea where 8, 10 or 12 are.

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I've lived in apartments with straight numbers, floored numbers (IE: 101, 201, etc.), and with plain letters (IE: A, B, C, etc.), so yeah, there's no certainty in any of it.

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MysteriousStan posted...
That the reason Harrison's angry all the time is because he's being forced to live in America.

Oh yeah, Bordate City is in Colorado.

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Most buildings in general I've been in (including apartments, hotels, school buildings, etc.) use 3 numbers with the first digit being the floor number. If the building has more than 9 floors excluding a basement, it will have 4 digits with the first two digits being the floor number (1401 for 14th floor, but 901 for 9th floor). Underground levels would have either 1 or 2 digits, and/or have B in front of the number.

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Midgar Zachnorn posted...
Most buildings in general I've been in (including apartments, hotels, school buildings, etc.) use 3 numbers with the first digit being the floor number. If the building has more than 9 floors excluding a basement, it will have 4 digits with the first two digits being the floor number (1401 for 14th floor, but 901 for 9th floor). Underground levels would have either 1 or 2 digits, and/or have B in front of the number.

Yeah, this seems to be how rooms were numbered in Resident Evil and Silent Hill, etc.

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I think the only thing I can say with certainty is that letters don't denote floors. Although will sometimes have letter/floor correlations

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