As title, what's the cons of staying penthouse or top floor of a condo / apartment ?

top floor or penthouse?

top floor always facing problems with leaking from roof slab

If an apartments, top floor of it. And above the unit is nothing. What's the cons ?
Sorry for bad English as I'm not good in describing this lol

Yeah. If the roof slab, got nothing but mainly jus roof slab, so usually problems just the leaking ? How long after only can notice the leaking ? 2,3 years upon VP?

Only if the lift got problem..

If really high, all lift have issues or malfunction, prepare for free fall of your property price

penthouse is ok
top floor is hotter & might suffer from leaking rainwater

staying mid floor just reduce certain stairs right? That's not my major concern

My major concern is besides the leaking, what else.
And if leaking, how long after can.notice

Is 25 floor consider very high? Just checking.

Yes it is, try imagine going up and down the stairs for 25 floors for just 1 day assuming lift not working

u have to wait for the elevator.

Leaking.
Depend on design; u may hv water tank sound or lift vibration sound. It can get loud at night...

Nothing on top of the unit.

Water tank is at middle floor.

What else the cons?

Thanks. Point taken for both.

usually 6 months after vp can notice the leaking

one more thing if all door and window not fit properly, you will face a whistling sound from the wind especially during heavy rain

how many units for penthouse per floor?

it will be nice if only your house on that floor

This post has been edited by magnesium: May 8 2017, 11:48 PM

Another point is, top floor usually warmer compared to other floor...

Talking about leaking its not as simple as you think... when leaks happen, its not something that u can just simply pay to fix it, it require the community/management to take action on these which takes time depending on the community's efficiency because the area that leaks may not belong to your ownership

not just that, even with lif is working, u got to wait for other residents each floor to until your turn
unless u have exclusive lif for urself

well noted. Will put that into consideration

am viewing a project which already VP 2 yrs. brand new and the unit seems perfectly fine without water leakage.
is there any way I can check the water leakage if it's not visible on bare eyes ?