Attic Door String Broke

Over the years many of our homes contained what we affectionately called ugly dangling attic cords hanging from the recessed attic doors that were located in our hallways closets rooms and garages.

Attic door string broke.

When were you inspired to create the attic ease. 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 side nearest the attic floor as opposed to the 2nd floor ceiling. The door usually is counterbalanced to the ceiling with folding steel arms and two heavy duty springs.

It s similar to the one shown. I figure i should replace both of them and. Drill a new hole and put. Problem is it s tightest from the inside i e.

Really it s not much thicker than a piece of string or a window blind cord. Login to reply the answers. With the pull system kit in pewter from attic ease you can replace existing ugly dangling attic cords with this complete system. My wife kay and i have always enjoyed our beautiful homes.

If the stringers of the middle. 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. Be careful not to let your attic stairs close or it will be very difficult to open them at this point. Get rid of the old dirty attic cord and replace it with a cheap and easy hook and pull system.

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. Figure out how your cord is attached and cut it off. Repairing an attic ladder spring is simple. There are 3 hooks so the spring can be pulled to the best one.

Tie a heavy rock or something unbreakable to the end of a rope throw it around the ladder and pull the ladder down. First step remove the cord. Tried the oil route. Before yesterday i never really realized how flimsy that pull down cord was.

And it snapped as i was lowering the stairs. 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. 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. 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.