Holy moly. Check the nuts and bolts on your pull down attic
Access ladder. I routinely check mine. But did not check the bolt that holds the arm that holds the spring. Was coming down after changing the upstairs air handler filter when the whole thing collapsed.
One bolt and nut.
Whew.
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2mo
...because a fall from some broken mechanical apparatus could be catastrophic. >8-}
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2mo
that's been going on for a while
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2mo
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2mo
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2mo
loaded arm and that thing unloaded on the back of the head of a guy going up the stairs.
As I recall, it was a prospective buyer of the house who was looking in the attic.
Pretty severe injury too.
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2mo
house before last after a prospective buyer, who was pregnant, claimed it was too dangerous for her to climb up there. Ignoring whether or not that was good for her anyway, we did all that, got the pull-down stairs all nice and tight, and then they passed on the deal.
In our new home, the attic pull down in the garage was installed backwards before the project manager noticed it. When they removed it and put it back in, the last section of steps that pulls down is unreachable if you're not at least 6'3'. Which I'm not. I have to get on my step ladder to open the attic hatch.
** Edited by PhotoHokieNC at 5/20/2026, 6:36:20 AM
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2mo
Great advice...the older I get, the more attuned I am to stuff like that.
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2mo
And now you'll never pronounce the word hoMEOWner the same way you used to. You're welcome. =^)
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