First step remove the cord.
Attic door string broke.
The door usually is counterbalanced to the ceiling with folding steel arms and two heavy duty springs.
Drill a new hole and put.
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Be careful not to let your attic stairs close or it will be very difficult to open them at this point.
My wife kay and i have always enjoyed our beautiful homes.
When were you inspired to create the attic ease.
The spring is 9 1 2 not counting the loops which are 3 4 each the diameter is 3 4 and there are 72 coils.
The side nearest the attic floor as opposed to the 2nd floor ceiling.
Really it s not much thicker than a piece of string or a window blind cord.
Pull down the attic staircase and use a screwdriver and an adjustable wrench to remove the bolts that hold the swivel brackets for the lower section of the staircase.
I figure i should replace both of them and.
There are 3 hooks so the spring can be pulled to the best one.
Our house is just over 3 years old and we don t access the attic very much so there wasn t that much wear and tear on this before it failed.
Tried the oil route.
Figure out how your cord is attached and cut it off.
An attic stair which is actually more of a ladder is a fairly simple apparatus consisting of a folding series of steps attached to a door.
Tie a heavy rock or something unbreakable to the end of a rope throw it around the ladder and pull the ladder down.
Problem is it s tightest from the inside i e.
It s similar to the one shown.
No accessible attic window that won t force the creation of another please help thread most likely describing me unimpressively hanging upside down from a rather impressive spruce with no way down.
Using the new eye bolt push it through the same hole the cord was in and tighten the bolt firmly on the inside of the stairs.
Before yesterday i never really realized how flimsy that pull down cord was.
And it snapped as i was lowering the stairs.
Repairing an attic ladder spring is simple.
The kit contains a pewter fashion pull ring to replace the attic cord a custom solid oak reach hook to pull down the ladder and a pewter fashion storage hook to store the reach hook instantly improving the look of.
Get rid of the old dirty attic cord and replace it with a cheap and easy hook and pull system.
One of mine broke after 37 years.
With the pull system kit in pewter from attic ease you can replace existing ugly dangling attic cords with this complete system.
