Youngman is one of the premier makers of quality loft ladders and in their range is a line of wooden ladders that are well worth checking out. In this case we are examining wooden loft ladders, a product line that the Youngman company is extremely adept with as can be evidenced by the strong range of ladders that they produce.

If it is a wooden loft ladder that is the preference the Youngman Eco S Line wooden loft ladder is a folding loft ladder designed to fit between the standard space of 600mm joist gaps. The ladder comes with an insulated draught proof hatch and is equipped with a handrail to make climbing and descending safer.

Made from solid spruce, the treads of the ladder are slip resistant and the ladder is designed to handle a load of 150kg. This particular ladder has a maximum floor to ceiling height of 2.81m (9ft 3”) while the ladder can be cut to size to meet any height that is smaller. There is an extension kit available for the ladder that increases the maximum height to 3.51m (11ft 6”).

The wooden loft ladder swings down as a 3-piece folding ladder with the aid of a pull rod that is supplied. In case you are afraid that the floors will be marked by the feet of the ladder once it has been pulled down, they are protected by rubber caps.

This is a ladder that takes up virtually no room inside the roof and swings down with barely any swing arc outside of the diameter of the ceiling hatch. For that matter the hatch size that will be cut into the ceiling is only 1.15m x 0.57m (3’9” x 1’10”).