Hovis-
The 6ft LED strip light at the top certainly makes it feel cleaner.
Quite glad how it turned out eventually though. The quote to have it boarded by the pros was a little under 2.5k, and it looked like I could get all the materials for ~1k.
Loftzone stuff about £500, boards about £200, ladder/hatch £100, strip light £50... plus some odds and sods
And given I'm not exactly doing much with my weekends right now, decided I'd do it myself since 1.5k for labour seemed a bit much.It's not hard but it's tedious and dirty. Especially with the loft already full of fibreglass insulation.
And I didn't measure the ladder properly. Or I didn't think to.
I assumed that because the ladder is smaller than the hatch, and the hatch opens, then the ladder would unfurl...Alas
^ that's actually after 'fixing' it.
before then it only had 2 pieces that unfolded, but each was longer, so it definitely wasn't going to clear the wall
Ended up having to shorten the legs, then buy more hinges to create an extra fold, then bolt the things back together...and the last bit was to put 2 bathroom door bolts onto the lowest hinge
because I found out that the extra hinge folding the other way means that as you're standing on the ladder, the force downwards is actually folding the lowest hinges
so all of a sudden the steps I was on were no longer there and I landed 2ft unexpectedly
so needed those to not be a death trapbut pleased in the end. from
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I had mine done properly recently. Absolute world of difference compared to my old loft where I just balanced some boards between joists.
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Bought the same set. It made this easier