Yes indeed the standard drop down folding stairs are a pain in the a##!!! I
am doing my barn over to house an LBC shop and had to take out the existing
stairs to get the space back. I found a company, Bessler (www.bessler.com),
that manuafactures what look to be really heavy duty disappearing stairs.
They don't fold, but rise up and roll onto the second floor. The cheapies
are recommended for something like 250 lbs. and these sucker are for up to
800 lbs. Not cheap tho, something like $800-900. Ouch. But don't bother
with the cheapies, you will hate them. Better to build one that raises if
you don't want to spring for Bessler.
-----Original Message-----
From: RBHouston@aol.com <RBHouston@aol.com>
To: richard.arnold@juno.com <richard.arnold@juno.com>; mgs@autox.team.net
<mgs@autox.team.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: Just Another Day
>Rich,
>
>Just one point about the pull down stairs. They look good but the one I
>installed in 85 was always a pain in the as*.
>
>I recently took it out and boult a set of stairs on the back wall of my
>garage. Now I can actually carry stuff into the attic and I have a closet
>below to store things.
>
>The pull down "stairs" are actually a pull down "ladder".
>
>YMMV. Just my 2 cents.
>
>Robert Houston
>
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