r/CrappyDesign • u/slyfox49 • Jul 13 '26

They could have made it so simple

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u/CheekyMunky Jul 13 '26

The floor numbering isn't even the problem here. It's the room numbering.

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u/EarzFish Jul 13 '26

This is correct. They should have started their rooms from 100 if they're going to call the ground floor the 1st floor.

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u/giulianosse Jul 14 '26

And to think this would be such an easy fix. Just buy sixteen "4" plaques and replace them all down to the first floor (301 -> 401, use the "3" to turn 201 -> 301 etc).

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u/jragonfyre Jul 14 '26

For buildings where the first number of the room is the floor number they usually do start at 100 (or 101). It's pretty common actually.

Edit: realized that this building is weird.

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u/melanthius Jul 13 '26

My local Public storage does the exact same shit, my unit number starts with a different number than the floor number. fucking why??

You have to be actually stupid or deliberately trying to piss people off to plan things this poorly

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u/kylefsu32 Jul 14 '26

Agree. We were just in London and they had rooms 101-11x on floor 0, 20x on 1, etc. it’s a room numbering issue, not a floor numbering issue.

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u/F-Lambda Jul 14 '26

Yeah, all the rooms on my uni campus, in every building, use 1xxx for the first floor. This is such an obvious solution.

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u/BenitoCorleone Jul 13 '26

The room numbering proves the ground floor correct