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Safety & Installation
through plaster/other ceiling material (see table 1). This allows
advice. Figures 2, 3 and 4 show how to frame the ceiling opening.
existing ceiling joints, only single ceiling
joists and single transverse joists are
angles to the joists, you will need to
make double transverse joists of the
WARNING
: If the ceiling joists are made
in a material other than timber, e.g. steel,
saw through a load-bearing joist without
ceiling joists to allow safe passage in the loft during installation.
04
Fitting temporary supports:
supports. If the trapdoor will be clad, the
higher in the opening as the thickness of
the cladding. Cladding material must not
weigh more than 6kg per m
2
. Cladding
material must not be more than 12mm
thick. We recommend that the cladding is
WARNING
NOT be loaded.
05
Attaching the loft ladder:
Lift the ladder up into the loft. Before lowering the loft ladder into the opening from above, attach 2
ladder so that the frame can be attached to the ceiling opening. Make sure that the loft ladder is level and
perpendicular. Attach loft ladder with adequate screws, allow at least half the total screw length to penetrate
remove supports.
WARNING
: DO NOT use the loft ladder
and adjusted to the correct ceiling height.
Vapour barrier
: When the loft ladder is
barrier must be attached in the correct
way. The space between the loft ladder
and the joist construction must be well-
insulated to avoid thermal bridges.
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
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Figure 6
90°
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90°
90°
Figure 5
EAN
Length
(cm)
Width
(cm)
3663602522492
115
57.4
3663602548133
120
60
Table 1
