ERD50
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Our DD bought a nice town-home and we finally got to visit, and of course she had a few jobs for me, and I had a list of things to check out.
There are can lights in the upstairs bedrooms, and they looked like they weren't installed well, had some visible gaps (my infra-red temperature gun showed some hotter spots around them with the A/C on a hot day). I told her that when it is cooler out, we should take a look up there. She doesn't have a step stool, let alone a ladder. She needs to get a good step stool, as she has been painting and just using a chair. But she really has no need for a ladder, so why spend the bucks and then just have it take up space? So how to get into that attic?
I don't really want to pack up a ladder in the car when we visit. I did some searches on-line, and everything is about the pull down stairs - but she doesn't need the storage space, there's no need to go through the $ and effort to install those, we just want to inspect things, and maybe a little touch-up job on those lights if needed. It would be a one or two time thing.
Then I recalled we have one of those chain/step emergency ladders that fit in a suitcase sized box, stored under our bed. I'm pretty sure that with a step stool I could get the hatch up, and hook the ladder over the edge in the same way it goes over the window sill. Maybe a carpet piece to avoid scuffing the ceiling/trim. Seems do-able.
Similar to this, but ours has chains, not straps along the side:
https://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-...ements=p_72:2661618011&rnid=2661617011&sr=8-4
Any other suggestions?
TIA - ERD50
There are can lights in the upstairs bedrooms, and they looked like they weren't installed well, had some visible gaps (my infra-red temperature gun showed some hotter spots around them with the A/C on a hot day). I told her that when it is cooler out, we should take a look up there. She doesn't have a step stool, let alone a ladder. She needs to get a good step stool, as she has been painting and just using a chair. But she really has no need for a ladder, so why spend the bucks and then just have it take up space? So how to get into that attic?
I don't really want to pack up a ladder in the car when we visit. I did some searches on-line, and everything is about the pull down stairs - but she doesn't need the storage space, there's no need to go through the $ and effort to install those, we just want to inspect things, and maybe a little touch-up job on those lights if needed. It would be a one or two time thing.
Then I recalled we have one of those chain/step emergency ladders that fit in a suitcase sized box, stored under our bed. I'm pretty sure that with a step stool I could get the hatch up, and hook the ladder over the edge in the same way it goes over the window sill. Maybe a carpet piece to avoid scuffing the ceiling/trim. Seems do-able.
Similar to this, but ours has chains, not straps along the side:
https://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-...ements=p_72:2661618011&rnid=2661617011&sr=8-4
Any other suggestions?
TIA - ERD50