This is neat! The closest things I've seen in my area of the US are (1) where the half-floors are still numbered like whole floors and (2) where the floors are numbered like 1, 1R, 2, 2R, where the "front" and "rear" floors are actually half a floor apart.
Probably a split-level building. In such the half floors make sense. I’ve seen other approaches such as using letters for floor numberings in carparks with split-level floors.
In NZ, most of the time we use the odd-even floor numbering for carparks with half floors (e.g. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15). However it would be nice if I came across a carpark with half-floors like this!
I've been to a building where there's half floors, but they said that they were going to replace lift buttons and programming to make the lift numbering work with the proper numbering at some point! Unfortunately the building is only accessible if you have a purpose (other than to look at lifts lol)
You know in the elevators at that Bronx baseball stadium, the floors are numbered "000", "*100", "200", "250" & "300" instead of "B/LL", "*1", "2", "3", "4" or "B/LL", "*1", "2", "2.5", "3", which could be a reference to the numbers of the seats depending on the level of the stadium.
Also so why do lift companys always change their lift chimes? i mean the ecodisc, over many genarations its changed and it really bugs me why they cant stick with the same one cause i loved the old chime in the 2008 models but the new ones have the most high pitched chime that screams at you like "I AM HERE NOW GET IN ME AND PICK YOUR FLOOR YOU..." thats how i feel i mean like the gen2 for example it only has 2 chimes (Well the ones i know) it chimes once on ground then chimes twice on floor 1. i really dont get it...
Things get updated over time. I find the new Kone chimes really nice and are my second favorite lift chime. Mitsubishi is my favorite. Mitsubishi never updated their chime and they sound as good in the late 90s as they do today. Other chimes I really like that are no longer installed are Schindler M series, Stannah glonnggg chime and stannah doorbell. Stannah did actually do some unique stuff in the 90s, sadly not the case anymore.
Five words: *EPIC LIFT AND A HALF!!* Also, what did the voice say before announcing the floor? It sounds like some foreign language or some warning to stand clear of the doors. (i.e. 1:26 _______, sixth floor and a half.)
Dalton Chew I was about to say that when I saw this comment 😀. It would also be nice if there was something like floor 5 3/16 or some odd fraction like that.
Floor -1.5 would be "Floor minus 1, and a half". For -0.5 I am not sure. I doubt it would have a custom message for this, so it would have to stitch together messages. I could say "Floor minus zero, and a half" or "minus half floor". Both of these would sound a bit strange.
Its there because there is more "parking floors" than the "shopping floors" and it keeps same numbers for every floor instead of having floor 2 in mall and floor 4 in parking at the same floor in the same building :D
Ecodisc: Floor 0.5. doors opening Me: Welp looks like i am stuck. Sometimes i wish Lifts would have a message saying 'Error Please call for assistance' you know like those annoying arcade coin pusher things that scream in your face... Yeah just thought i would say this ;-; Uhhh, Ok i will go now... just thought i should bring that up.... Yeah ;-; Bye
Orona has the message "There is a fault, push the alarm button" when it detects a fault. Mitsubishi has the message "Lift has stopped for safety purposes, push the alarm" when it detects a fault it can't recover from.
