Hiosting stuff into loft

[pinnerite]

In a couple of months shall be downsizing from a 4-bedroom house to a small bungalow. I shall be flooring the loft which will be esential for storage.

The existing loft ladder is a flimsy affair. I intend to replace it with a cascading section staircase such as a Ramsey.

At first I will need to get a substantial number of floor-boards (600 x

2400 x 18mm) up there. My original plan was to lay them one at a time on the "staircase" and gradually push them up until they tip into the loft.

What would make it easier woud be if I could install a pair of pulleys with ratchets, so that I could haul up each bpard without fearing to let go.

I have seen what looks like something almost suitable on Amazon.

"(2) Pack 1/8 inch Rope Pulley Ratchet Hangers, Convenient Adjustable Reinforced Metal Internal Gears, 6.5-ft Long & 105lbs Weight Grow Light Hangers"

The problem is that at 6.5ft the cord is too short if the mounting point is some way away.

Am I approaching the problem in too simpolistic a way?

TIA

[nothanks]

Why not fix a pulley to a rafter, make a suitable sling/carrier and attach it to a rope, temporarily install a pal/child/wife in the loft, and just haul things up for the aforementioned pal/etcetera to unload?

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

pinnerite expressed precisely :

I had a similar issue, a workshop in my loft, accessed via a normal loft hatch. I fixed a simple pulley to a rafter, reinforced to the two adjacent to it, able to take an 8mm rope. I raise and lower on it regularly and much more weight than you are proposing. A ratchet is not necessary, but one of those metal brackets fixed to something substantial, where the rope can be wound in a figure of eight might be useful if a pause might be necessary, in raising or lowering and awkward item.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

[e-mail] was thinking very hard :

I find a robust 10 gallon plastic bucket (old chemical container), with a metal handle works well.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

I use an electric one.....much better...go to 2.31 to see it

[Chris Hogg]

I use large garden waste bags such as these

[Muddymike]

When we were house hunting one we viewed had an electric hoist with remote control mounted to the rafters above the loft hatch.

Mike

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

[fred]

Demonstrating the very worst type of amateur video making. Simple rules

1/ Use a bloody tripod 2/ No zoomimg 3/ No panning 4/No hosepiping.

All these 'rules' can of course be broken if you know what you are about. An whats with all these phone clips in portrait mode?

[pinnerite]

That may solve part of the problem. I need to discover what weight they can handle. Thamk you for that.

Alan

[nothanks]

Pick-up a used 1m3 "builder's bag" from a building site, I think they're rated to 1T (for things like sand, soil and ballast) but will certainly be adequate for your needs. They have 4 handles (and a couple of forklift loops) so would be very easy to put a rope through - and free!

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

An what's with all these phone clips in portrait mode?

what?????

[charles]

if you don't want a used one, Screfix sell new ones.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Hmm, It might be rather handy, instead assuming you have headroom for it, to put in a simple ratchet winch attached above the opening to aid future storage and retrieval?

One issue I soon found with storing heavy things in the loft was the sagging ceiling syndrome. Books and records are extremely dense and heavy. Brian

[Chris Green]

Surely quite impossible to get up through the loft hatch though.

[michael adams]

There is no need for anyone in the loft.

You lay the load underneath the hatch, attach the hook, climb the ladder move the ladder to one side and pull it up yourself.

Again as suggested elsewhere there's no need for a ratchet. Just a cleat screwed to a rafter around which secure the rope in the event of any temporary problem in manouvering the load through the hatch etc .

michael adams

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[nothanks]

errr - they're bags so are flexible

[Chris Hogg]

and on the size of the hatch. I've known some hatches barely 18" square, just big enough to squeeze through, and the one here with a pull-down ladder is 26" x 36".

[Jim White]

Toolsatan do a half-tonne bag. 89263 73x73x70

[Andrew]

Is this roof made of modern trusses or cut timber ?. You need to consider the weight of all that chipboard. I only did the section immediately around the loft hatch with 18mm t&g 2400 by 600 flooring. For the section where the roof line makes standing up impossible I used a load of ex-B&Q mdf display panels on homemade upstands and lateral 47x47mm timber to allow 300mm of insulation. The central section was re-insulated with extruded polystyrene.