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Originally Posted by Colts Fan
What types of things do you store in the attic? Seems like the heat in Florida would make attic storage pretty limited. I'm trying to decide whether it is worthwhile to put in attc pull-down stairs.
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We have pull-down attic stairs and flooring in the attic, which were there when we bought the house. You are very limited as to what you can store in a Villages attic. Items must be heat resistant, light weight, and small. There is some risk of injury in going up and down the stairs, and it is uncomfortably hot to go up to the attic in the summer.
My advice would be that, before you incur the cost of pull-down stairs and flooring: First throw out all your unnecessary crap that you have meant to dispose of over the years but never have and that you know your kids will have to sort through and throw out some day while they curse you for not having sorted through and thrown it out yourself. Then maximize your first-floor garage storage via shelving and cabinets and make efficient use of the storage space in your indoor closets. Once you do that, see if you still need more storage space. If you do, only then install the stairs and flooring.
Finally, I will observe that the existence of the attic storage space in our house has enabled my wife and me to keep more of the above-described crap that we should have thrown out. This is, at least from our kids' perspective, not a good thing.