How To Install An Attic Door In Garage

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How to install an attic door in garage.

11 pests that could be hiding in your attic. Lowe s will coordinate your attic ladder installation service to remove your old attic ladder handle your new attic stair installation and haul away the old unit. Place the folding attic ladder on the floor with the door opening on your right hand side. Do not extend the legs to the floor yet.

Build the lift platform and door then set the platform assembly on the door. Once you re in the attic locate the screw. Check that the assembly is level and shim between the stair frame and joists. Glue the plywood to the back of the drywall piece.

Nail a new header between the joists on the opposite end of the rough opening to complete the framing. Make sure you have someone helping from the garage level so you don t get stuck in the attic. The screw should be between two joists. Using the roofing nails and straps provided attach one strap using two nails on the outside of the attic ladder frame at the extreme right hand corner near the door stop block.

Screw the spring brackets to the door braces. Then set the unit inside the corner marks on the floor. The rope will now start at the eye hook it is tied to run down to the free pulley on the floor below back up to the pulley on the attic beam and then back down to the floor below. Then run it through the pulley attached to the attic beam.

Cut a piece of 1 4 inch plywood to the same dimensions as the rectangular piece of drywall that you cut from the ceiling. Cut out the ceiling joist and any wood blocking that s in the opening. Run the rope through the pulley that was not attached to the eye hook. Place attic assembly on supports.

One will be used as your stationary the other you ll cut header it off and put your attic stair in. When you find it remove the insulation from the area and determine which of the joists you re going to cut.