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  1. 2nd December 2003, 05:46 PM #1
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    Question ladders

    I have constructed a wood working shop with 11 foot ceiling. The attic was constructed in such a way to allow us to store/season wood in. the shop is 20 foot x 30 foot, the attic storeage is 12 foot x30 foot. The problem is access to the attic storage I would like to make a ladder that folds and recesses into the attic it would also need to be on an angle so that I can carry small items so a vertical ladder would not work. Anyone have any advice and or plans on how to contruct a set of folding stairs.


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    there are some commercialy made atic lader systems that may be worth a look . or there are some aluminium lader models that may be usefull.
    most of the ladder makers have short extension laders & rigid straight ladders.
    some may have just what you want straight off the shelf.
    Just bear in mind the load the ladder will take. eg person plus goodies. most commercial laders are rated at 120Kg industrial at 150KG.
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    I bought one of these for a house I once lived in. There pretty good. You maybe able to pinch some ideas from the pictures.

    http://www.atticladders.com.au/
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    Thanks Grunt and Sound Man
    after putting up the post my partner and I desided to use a commercialy made attic folding stairs. We had discuss it before but could not find one the would fit , the tallest being 10'3" , so we came up with an idea to make a small platform that attached to the floor of the attic the by getting it low enough to allow us to use the commercialy made shairs.




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  6. 12th March 2007, 09:54 PM #5
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    Smile attic ladders

    www.buybuildingsupplies.com.au have a good range of ladders for ceilings up to 3250mm and the best prices we found when we did a hunt - ordering process was painless and had it del in 2 days.
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  7. 12th March 2007, 09:56 PM #6
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    Default where to buy attic access ladders

    www.buybuildingsupplies.com.au had the best prices we could find - they have a good range too - up to 3.25m ceiling height - order process was painless and had it delivered in 2 days - good stuff
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