Loft Ladder

Kemik

Kemik

Kemik

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Hi guys,

Looking to install a loft ladder. The builders have put a ton of insulation in the loft so I boarded it with LoftLeg's XL model. Unfortunately there is also insulation on the loft door so I can only put ladders on the thin part of the hatch at the moment (it's a rectangle rather than a square).

Can anyone think of a better way to layout the door and which way to install the loft ladder? It would mean I can board more of the loft all the way to the hatch, not have to store my ladders down stairs, and would make accessing the loft easier.

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Can you put the loft legs and supports round the corner then board it?

Then you could suspend a ladder on the loft legs flooring and have two seperate "pull" mechanisms? Even if they go seperate ways?

Also bravo! I bet that was a pretty awful job!
 
The boards should have been staggered. Hopefully there are enough legs and screws to make it all strong enough.

When I added the additional insulation to my loft (with legs and boards on top) I didn't put the fibreglass into the area the ladder needed to fold up into. For that area I used foam insulating boards (Knauf?), basically the same level of insulation but a lot thinner. It allowed me to still have the ladder attached at joist level.
 
Balls to not staggering them. Never had an issue when I installed them this way in the last house so hopefully should be okay. The issue with staggering is that I would have needed to get the saw out.

I put six legs per board, each leg has four screws and each board will (once finished) have six screws. The whole thing doesn't move so fingers crossed.

Do you think I should remove the current door, rotate it 360 and somehow allow it to be attached to the roof when open? That insulation board on the door blocks things when it just hangs open.
 
I cant see why you can't board right up to the loft hatch ?
and once you have done that and the ladder is rested on the "new" high floor, you'll probably find it clears the insulation on the hatch anyway.
If not it will just push the hatch slightly more open, which isn't a problem.
 
MassiveJim said:
I cant see why you can't board right up to the loft hatch ?
and once you have done that and the ladder is rested on the "new" high floor, you'll probably find it clears the insulation on the hatch anyway.
If not it will just push the hatch slightly more open, which isn't a problem.
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If I use a standard ladder where it is at the minute, the width of the opening to climb up is only 60cm. If I add the loft legs they will take up room and dig into my back/be right in my face as I climb up. If I rotate the door, that way is much wider so I could board all the way up to the opening, but the foam is in the way on the hatch door.

I should note that the boards are all tongue and groove so should have added stability. They can be difficult to pull apart without any screws in them at all. Depending on what I decide to do with the door, I might try to stagger some. Just a real pain in the backside having spent forever pulling back insulation, installing the loft legs, finding some weren't quite lined up, re-installing them, etc.
 
yes generally when you raise the height of the loft floor it obviously increases the depth of the "portal" you have to go through to get in to the loft.
it isn't a problem though.

and as I said I would just put the ladder the other way around and let it push the door out of the way slightly.

I wouldn't worry too much about it damaging the polystyrene on the loft hatch, polystyrene isn't the best insulator and I doubt it is flush with the hatch opening, so would be letting cold air down the sides anyway. :)
 
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