They may be weakened severely and potentially lead to property damage or worse still serious personal injury.
Equipment pully attic.
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When screwing the pulley lift system into place avoid laminated rafters at all costs.
This featured diy project is a simple build that works for those with pull down attic ladders that have straight side rails.
Heres a video of an attic pulley system that i set up today.
Now since every attic is of course different your measurements would be different from the ones mentioned by the source diy er.
In order to provide mechanical advantage this pulley needs to remain unattached to anything but the rope that is connected to the fixed pulley.
When you are ready to use the hoist bring the free pulley downstairs.
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Some common sense and following the stipulated restrictions of the materials needs to be taken into account.
Rope was 11 and the two pulleys.
All the components were purchased at home depot for about 20.