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Default Loft ladder - limited height in loft and small hatch

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Murmansk wrote:

I've been asked to fit a loft ladder for someone who has a hatch 65cm
square and limited height in the loft of 65cm to store the ladder.

Looks like we need a concertina one or a telescopic one.

Anyone any experience of telescopic ones? They seem to be about £200. I
reckon concertina ones aren't as good as they tend to bounce up and down
as you use them which can be unnerving!


Mine is a sliding 3-section aluminium, it pivots flat as it raises through
the hatch, don't suppose it exceeds 65cm height (don't think I've ever
been in loft with the ladder "up" though), provided you have the room for
it to lay more or less flat


Is 65 cm the maximum storage height or the maximum headroom? Many ladders
need to extend vertically above the hatch by almost the length of one
section as they are being pushed up, before then pivoting so they are
horizontal.