Unfortunately many people are still unaware of the numerous benefits that installing a fire resistant attic ladder can bring to their home.
How to make attic stairs fire rated.
It pays for every homeowner to be aware of the benefits of fire rated ladders for attics.
2 you can construct a firewall in the attic separating the garage attic from the house attic.
A modern system of folding the ladder enables the ladder to be folded to smaller lengths and therefore allows smaller sizes of loft hatch to be achieved.
Pull down stairs or other hatches providing access to shared attic space should conform to modern firewall requirements and these stairs do not.
Also there are attic ladders that have had a rated fire retardant applied to the plywood face like in the photo below of a label on one.
You need to buy a 26 guage metal plate cut to.
Recommend replacing the existing stairs with fire rated stairs or consulting your local fire marshal for more options i also include a definition of shared attic space below the comment narrative.
This unit named the super simplex disappearing stairway was tested by intertek and granted a warnock hersey label.
The fakro lsf metal attic ladder is a fire rated and insulated ladder that can serve as a fire block.
In most cases the framing for this wall is already partially or completely in place.
Deciding on whether to install a fire rated attic ladder is a critical choice.
1 there are fire rated attic ladders on the market starting at about 800 installation.
The insurance adjuster can come and claim that the access ladder was not as per code as it let the fire spread into the attic and decline your claim.
Precision ladders llc in morristown tn precision ladders llc manufactures a 2 hour fire rated attic access folding stairway.
The fakro lsf fire resistant attic ladder provides easy and safe access to the attic and at the same time serves as a fire block during a fire inside the building.
Not cheap and they far exceed the equivalency requirement.