This unpublished page from my site is directed to Fakro designers or marketers, in Poland.
In my purchaser interface with Mark Krol, Fakro Canada/ USA, I have demonstrated innovation in attic ladder installation. I am beginning to modify ladder packaging in 2-step and 3-step sections, to allow more-flexible coping with tall and short ladder opportunities. In this, I employ my own 2-D drawings. The short-ladder opportunity is thoroughly developed in a just-completed project, document attached "Photos, Ladder Installation." That photo set presents many of the inventive things I do in a ladder installation. I apply oil finish. I install a ladder frame with swing sections detached. I achieve tight fit in the rough opening. I do inventive things to make strong rough frames. I apply my own patch material that includes calcium carbonate and ceramic microballoons, "flexible grout," to avoid molding to dress the ladder opening. I employ leveler legs to protect wood floors. I complete a safe ladder installation, with decking, lighting and safety grabs.
I am capable of creating improved ladder installation instructions. I have worked as a technical writer, and still have association with that professional publisher.
I have shown attic ladders very professionally at a 2008 trade show. I will be at the 2010 show, with a new display concept, ladders deploying touchably, from a 7-ft ceiling (booth loft).
I would like to do more for the customer of the photo below. Might Fakro also be involved with solar attic fans?
Cool with a Solar Attic Fan, and a Window: This project was completed comfortably in peak-Summer heat, with benefit from a solar attic fan, and the light and breeze of an open window. Where there is sufficient roof overhang, a window makes more sense than a gable vent. Now, how do we operate that window remotely? I want to integrate remotely operated windows and skylights with other elements of attic usability. Isn't this window operation related to operator demonstration by Fakro and Wayne Dalton, at Mosbuild 2009?
At September 24, 2009, I renew this conversation, with new pdf attachments. The new attachments detail a range-extension experiment with Calvert ladders, study range options with Fakro LWS-P ladders, and add examples of my installation methods. I ask attention to two new issues:
The non-symmetry of Fakro hinges will demand use designations for supplementary four, three and two-step sections.
I think kit options should be offered in lieu of DIY ladders, LWS-M. Let this be for special needs, served by informed installers. The options with other combinations of section length (number of steps) should be detailed at your web site, with really good graphics.
At October 24, 2009, I include a study of LWS-P XX/47 innovations to clear an obstruction such a a door header, Fakro LWS P XX_47 Three steps at Second and Third sections.