Attic Door String Broke

There are 3 hooks so the spring can be pulled to the best one.

Attic door string broke. With the pull system kit in pewter from attic ease you can replace existing ugly dangling attic cords with this complete system. Get rid of the old dirty attic cord and replace it with a cheap and easy hook and pull system. 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. 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.

Problem is it s tightest from the inside i e. 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. It s similar to the one shown. One of mine broke after 37 years.

And it snapped as i was lowering the stairs. Tie a heavy rock or something unbreakable to the end of a rope throw it around the ladder and pull the ladder down. If the springs are worn rusted loose or broken the integrity of the entire device is seriously compromised and an immediate repair is necessary. Drill a new hole and put.

The side nearest the attic floor as opposed to the 2nd floor ceiling. Figure out how your cord is attached and cut it off. Before yesterday i never really realized how flimsy that pull down cord was. 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.

If the stringers of the middle. 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. Be careful not to let your attic stairs close or it will be very difficult to open them at this point. 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.

When were you inspired to create the attic ease. First step remove the cord. Really it s not much thicker than a piece of string or a window blind cord. Repairing an attic ladder spring is simple.

My wife kay and i have always enjoyed our beautiful homes. Tried the oil route. Login to reply the answers. I figure i should replace both of them and.