How to make a stepladder with your own hands

A good stepladder is needed by every owner, it can be used not only in construction, but also when working in the garden or for solving domestic troubles. To be sure of its reliability, it is better to make a stepladder for the house with your own hands.

Materials and workpieces for the

Ladder You will need:

• a good beam without defects;
• metal needles;
• drill
• self-tapping screws, nuts, washers;
• plates made of metal for joining halves of a ladder;
• heel for the legs of the ladder made of rubber;
• metal chain;
• joinery glue;
• Bulgarian
• chisel;
• emery paper;
• hammer;
• screwdriver;
• measuring tape.

The workpieces for the ladder-ladder are made in this way:

1. Cut the beam into pieces of the required length.4 pieces of 150 cm, 2 pieces - 37, 47, 52, 57 cm.
2. The ends of the blanks should be rounded. And if you want, you can attach rubber attachments on one side so that the ladder does not slip on the floor. Screws are fastened with screws.
3. On the stalk leg, pull back from the end of 10 cm and make a groove with a chisel. From it to retreat 24 cm and make another depression, to it will be further attached steps. Since the steps will be five pieces, then the grooves should be five. The same thing to do on the second bar. Further, under the indentations, you need to drill a hole for the spokes.
4. Use the chisel to cut the ends of the steps so that they are inserted into the recesses. Slightly skew the ends, so that when the staircase is narrowed to the top, the steps are still tight.
5. The workpieces are first ground, then processed with an antiseptic.

Assembly of the ladder

When all the workpieces are completed, you can proceed to assemble the ladders:

1. Join the steps of the joinery with joinery and insert them into the supports, hammer in the hammers.
2. Insert the knitting needles under the steps and secure with nuts and bolts.
3. Cut the protruding parts from the plates that connect the ladder. In the center of the wide part of the plate, it is necessary to drill the holes and fix them every two plates with a nut. Then drill the plate where it will be attached to the ladder. To accurately guess the location of the fasteners, you need to attach the plates to the supports and make the markings. The plates are fastened at the top on the legs.
4. To ensure that the ladder does not part ways, its parts are connected with a chain or a cord, the ends are fixed with bolts and nuts.
5. If you collect a stepladder with your own hands, then create it the one that would be convenient for you. At the top, for example, you can attach hooks for the bucket. You can also make a piece of plastic pipe and fix it with screws on the stairs, and you can add the necessary tool.

Constructing a step-transformer

1. Before you begin the construction, you need to sketch a drawing of a ladder. It will be needed in order to accurately calculate how many materials you will need to create a ladder.
2. Step-ladder transformer can be made of steel or duralumin pipe with thick walls and three centimeters in diameter, 2 and 1.5 meters long. This length will be the stepladder itself. For the steps you can use the same pipe, it will need an eye of three meters. The entire structure is assembled with a welding machine and a bolt.
3. For bolt connection, it is necessary to make through holes on the pipe along the entire length of the ladder, the distance between them is the same as from the end of 30 cm. Drill holes with a similar distance on the stepper tube, having deviated from the edge by 1.5 cm.
4. To connect all the parts together, you need to make two clamps. On the steel strips, having retreated 1.5 cm from the end, make holes and bend.
5. Make clutches closed in oval shape. And weld the ends. Attach the yokes, on the fifth step, starting from the floor.
6. Drill through holes 1.5 cm from the end on opposite sides of the pipe. Put on the clutches, insert the clamps into the ends, secure with bolts.
7. Assemble the crossbeams, for this on the legs are fixed rubber tips, you can use plastic covers for this purpose. To ensure that the sides of the ladder are not parted, you need to install hinges for fixing the wire hook.
8. To transform a two-meter ladder into a three-meter ladder, you need to remove the hook, and turn the support part up on the hinges. Couplings give firmness to hardening, they are put on the ends of a 2-meter pipe. If all the work is done correctly, then such a ladder-transformer can withstand a weight of about one hundred kilograms.

This stepladder is not inferior to conventional aluminum, on the contrary, it can be constantly modified, for example, to reduce the number of steps or change the shape of their fasteners.

Testing of the

Ladder Before using the stepladder, created by yourself in the work, it needs to be thoroughly tested with the load. For this it is necessary: ​​

1. Put the ladder on a flat surface, hang the load on the step of the middle part. If there are several knees at the ladder, then each knee passes the test load separately, in turn. If the second knee is only needed for the stop, then it is possible to hang a smaller weight on it. The weight is hung in the back of the knee on each string.
2. The staircase is well inspected for defects or imperfections.
3. The sliding ladders should be well extended and retracted, and reliably standing at the given knee height. They should not spontaneously develop in any way.
4. Inspecting metal ladders, make sure that there are no deformations in the nodes, and in the metal cracks, the ladder should be smooth, without burrs and sharp corners, fastening the steps to the strings should be without disturbances.

One of the common requirements for working with a stepladder is to check the stability of the base and the support at the top of the structure. By the way, if you need to work at an altitude of more than 1.3 meters, then you need to wear a safety belt, and the ladder itself must be insured by another person.
You can not use a stepladder if it is standing on the step of the march and work is being done at a level that is less than a meter from its top point. It is not allowed to work on a stepladder with electric and pneumatic tools, with welding equipment and power networks. Especially if you use a stepladder alone.
With the availability of materials and tools, a stepladder for a house can be made in just a few hours, and use it for many years.