HOW TO FIT A LOFT LADDER

0:02 today i'm going to show you how easy to fit a loft hatch with a ladder so basically what we're doing you're creating a frame all around this ridge where the loft hat is going to go then what you do you can fold it again like that [Music] hi guys my name is ollie and you're watching build with any today i'm gonna show you how easy to fit a loft hatch with a ladder come with me and i'll show you so this is the loft where we're going to fit the loft ladder and this is the space where we're going to need to be cutting the ceiling joists like you can see here we've got pearling here so our loft ladder definitely needs to come from here and the measurement is 1100 long ways i'm gonna square from that berlin dead 1100 make a trimmer here so you can

0:48 hold these two loft ceiling joists there and then obviously when you come up we get the highest point on the ridge because it's very important you know when you come so you don't smack your head like obviously if you come up here you will smack your head so if right here in the middle is the highest point so that's what we've been trying to do so because obviously we're starting from the bridge there it's going to be 1100 11.50 so we're going to be cutting somewhere here we'll see where the bridge is somewhere there so very important you support all them there so when we cut this then then we'll be supporting the ceiling on break and that's what we're doing now we're just fixing that

1:36 all these chilling turrets there will be no movement [Music] so now we'll be able to cut them rather here and we'll be supported because we're going to leave this one and this one these four bits will support them too obviously here because we come from the pearling we're not going to need to we're just going to put a trimmer across and start our water from there all the way across what i'm going to do now i'm going to just center the staircase here where my lock flap is going to go so obviously when you come up the stairs the loft hatch is right in the center aesthetically it'll look much better

2:31 so making that line obviously will be parallel with that wall because that's what we wanted [Music] so what i'm doing here as well because obviously we've already got existing wall here i'm taking a measure so we know this is our center with the staircase obviously we we do half of the loft that way and then we measure that that's two three three and obviously down here we do exactly the same so when you put the loft eye but you can see it's parallel with this existing wall it doesn't just look you know awkward so now we got our first line and this is gonna be our guide this line this is where we're gonna take all the the best with this square it's very important all these lines will be spot on square because obviously the loft hatch it's square so when you drop it in you won't be on the skew so it's very important to use one of this so you know it's

3:17 absolutely spot on [Music] this love hatch it's 530 mil so i'm gonna do my cutting at 540 mil leaves five mil each side so any movements you can always like you know adjust and you'll be spot on square same as long ways so this is one meter 90 and i'm doing 1100 again five mil each side just give us a little tolerance

4:08 there we go look spot on into the line there there we go not what's coming out i took my first line from the wall so it's parallel to this wall here then i use my square to do all the way around you know 90 degrees and then obviously when you do all your lines just double check so what you do for your tape there 540. that is 1100 do the same in four corners so you know it's spot on i'm going to use one of these recipe gonna follow all my lines and get this bit of the ceiling out [Music]

4:55 we have our cutting for the loft hatch now obviously you got the ceiling joists here both of them this is the timber so we're gonna go across there to hold them two together so i'm gonna do the thickness of that i'm gonna cut it back using one of these make a square put it like that cut them back put a trimmer like that so then we can screw it from there and you'll be supporting them too do the same all the way around so basically what we're doing you're creating a frame all around this ridge where the loft hat is going to go [Music] so we kept the two ceiling joists there you got your pearling here so because we

5:41 need to be flush with the purling instead of me putting a trimmer all the way and then obviously this one can screw from that way did i fill them up with noggins in the middle so obviously it's flush with our pearling so he keep keeps the loft hatch more this way that's what we want to keep our head height on the ridge of bed [Music] [Applause] [Music] absolutely spot on [Music]

6:33 so so i'm doing now i cut two bits of timber but to be one i'm gonna screw them lava in both edges of the loft hut so one that and one there so what this does is when you drop the loft hatch from the loft down you will be supported by this so it won't fall then you can level there you can put some packers underneath it to level out defensive ceiling you know get the level on and just make sure it is absolutely spot on [Music] so i dropped my loft hatch in our opening in the loft it's not fixed at the moment so it's just only by our laugh that we put it earlier so now what we're going to do we're going to get our levels check the ceiling level all out and then obviously start fixing it after

7:19 we're fixing the loft hatch to the sides i'll normally put about eight fixings two in each side then we can remove them and can use our ladder so what we're doing now with the bits of luffy putty we're gonna put some wedges underneath we're gonna lift it this will be flush with the ceiling we're gonna use our level flush with the ceiling and then fix it all out and then we can put our architrave all the way around and it's job done [Music] we left 10 mil gap all the way around so obviously this is our parallel line to the wall that our gap is there so i'm doing i'm just putting two wedges one top one bottom leather i'll just put a screw through the middle so obviously when i screw in doesn't bow the loft touch so it'll be like a nice perfect straight line there so i do two there two in the middle and two there and then

8:06 we can just get our fixes done the last piece of our puzzle the lid of the loft hatch it comes with four clips so it's pretty easy to fit i'll show you if you're coming with me so first thing we do we get this lettuce back up like that and then it comes with this little clips there there's one there one here and this is where our clip's gonna go so just clip start in there and then we just clip them back in [Music]

8:56 voila comes with one of these so here we are this is your loft hatch it comes with obviously with a stick like this you just go to there turn it and it drops it down like that it's really easy to use probably that like the best thing on the market for loft hatches it drops down a lot you can just climb up any time you wanna then what you do you can fold it again like that push it back up and then just twist it and this is how you fit a lot hatch my name is ollie you've been watching build with dna if you like the video don't forget to like and subscribe and any comments until next time