What are the stairs to the attic?
You can get to the upper floors of a country house in two ways - inside and out. Conveniently, of course, the internal options of the stairs to the attic, but sometimes you want to have a separate entrance, so that no one bothers or vice versa, so that, rising to himself, do not disturb the household. The most common type is the fly-through type. In other words, to be on the second floor, you need to pass at least two flights of ten steps, separated by a platform. One step from top to bottom is rarely done, since it is difficult for older people to overcome this path without a respite.
However, the spiral staircase to the attic has no grounds, they simply can not be found in a spiral march. In this case, the shape of the spiral can be either the most popular round, or square, if, for example, a special "tower" is connected to the top, combined with the house, but connected with the rooms only with doorways on the floors. In the latter case, even the railing will not be needed, on one side the width of the staircase to the attic will be limited by the wall, on the other - the central column. And, finally, less common, but more interesting are special folding stairs, combined with a hatch.
Dormer ladders, space-saving
In order to connect two floors, it is necessary to allocate a certain area for a flight of stairs, no matter in the hallway or the living room. The exception is only the above described special well, connecting all floors, or a ladder to the attic from the street. In the latter case, the spans are usually located along a straight line, along the outer wall. However, if the staircase does not bother anyone outside the house, it can be quite difficult to allocate space to it. For example, in the middle of the living room the first flight will look inappropriately, and under the area between the marches, walking will be inconvenient, since the height of 10 steps is usually 160 centimeters .
Ideal option - attic ladders, which are folded and retracted over the hatch cover, which is then smoothly closed. Equipped with a spring mechanism, folding spans do not collapse with a crash down after the hatch is opened, but rather slowly unfolded, and the last march needs to be unfolded manually. But there is no risk that the whole construction, decomposing, will cause you an injury. To remove such a ladder, it is enough, again, to add a couple of spans, and then the automatics will work, everything will be pulled up, and the hatch will close. There are models that are laid out in a single march - their steps are connected by a scissor method, with the addition in the form of the same spring mechanism.
Boarded staircase to the attic floor
Material, the processing of which by everyone's power - it's a tree, and when manufacturing in a country house stairs, preference is given to lumber. In addition, not only the internal but also the external staircase to the attic can be mounted from the boards, it is enough just to soak the wood with antiseptics and cover it with lacquer so that the steps from the warm natural material serve for decades. If necessary, wooden elements can easily be replaced by drunk exactly the same .
Very popular are the wooden stairs to the attic, made on strings, when the steps are strengthened on the supplied sloping load-bearing elements from a massive board. Fasteners are usually practiced with the help of a corner, the steps also fit on stuffed bars. A simpler and less reliable option is simply on the nails hammered into the end of the board. The most laborious method is in a hidden groove, when the steps are fastened with nails or screws.
The staircases on the bolts have the greatest safety factor, they withstand a load of up to 1800 kilograms per step.
In the house, the staircase to the attic floor will look very elegant, if you make it on the bolts, when all the steps on the bars are suspended from the tightly mounted railings. Sometimes one side of the stage is attached to the special kind of pains to the wall, and without contact with it, so that steps are not distributed throughout the house.
