Posted on February 4, 2013

Location – Wanstead, London

The houses around here have exceptionally high ceilings.  No problem, we had a solution. It was our 3 section timber loft ladder.  But not the one listed on the website.  This one had a much higher floor to ceiling reach.  The hatch size would be a delightful 1300mm long and 600mm wide.  Luckily this house was large and the hall way was big enough.

There was a loft hatch already present but we had to enlarge the hatch to suit.  The customer would have to do only a little bit of painting after.

We got to work…

Firstly we had a look at the current hatch and worked out the best and neatest way to enlarge the hatch.

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We went into the loft and started clearing the area and lining what will be the new extended loft hatch for the new timber loft ladder.

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The loft hatch has now been lined and its time to remove the framing parts from the underside of the ceiling.

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Done!

Now time to cut out the plasterboard to make a nice large opening.  Here goes…

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WOW! that’s a nice big loft hatch there.  Fantastic timber loft ladder almost ready to go in. Lets see how it looks from underneath.

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Looks great.  Now its time to ensure its all structurally sound and time to fit in the new timber loft ladder.  Lets get the ladder out the van…

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Ok great, lets get it upstairs and prepared for installation.

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Good.  Looks ready to go.  Lets double check the opening is ok for the timber loft ladder.

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Looks good.  Lets get the timber loft ladder into place…

…a few minutes of heavy grunting and lifting later and…

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We’re in!

Time to open it up, make sure its all screwed and secured into place and cut down to size accordingly.

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With that done.  We must make sure all the insulation and boarding around the area is nicely put back into place and looks good.

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All done.  Lets go down the ladder and make sure the underside now all looks nice and is ready for the customer to paint after we have left.

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This is how it looks, but are now going to apply nice architrave to finish it off nicely.

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Architrave at the ready.  Lets cut it to size.

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Now apply to hatch accordingly.

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And the finished article…

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Lovely job! If you are interested in having a timber loft ladder installed, please click here and fill out the form to have a survey done.