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Originally Posted by DangeloInspections
As a person who uses these stairs everyday doing inspections, please make sure you install these stairs going the right way for headroom. I see too many steps installed "backwards" so when you climb up them your head goes towards the sloping roof instead of towards the higher portion of the attic.
This is hard to explain, but once you look through the opening consider which way the stairs will go. One way is usually much more open and easier than the other way. Too many folks only think of where the bottom of the steps are going to land or where the light switch is and not where the top of the steps lead you. I actually burned my arm the a couple of months ago on a bare attic light bulb from steps installed the wrong way in a courtyard villa.....
Frank
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Good point. Mine are installed backwards like you described but prefer it that way so I don't have to move my car every time I use it. It opens on the side I put the cart and the entry door to the house.