Before owners of two-story apartments and country cottages quite often there is question: "What to choose ladder for the house?". This subject of interior has to combine reliability, safety, practicality and, of course, appeal.
Instruction
1. First of all, solve, you would like to see design what ladder at yourself in the house. The most convenient and safe the rectilinear mid-flight ladder with site or without it is considered. Screw – it is beautiful and rather economical in respect of space, but is not really convenient at rises and descents. You should not choose it if in your house there are small children and old men. And here the ladder on bolets both is convenient, and is esthetic.
2. Pay attention to ladder steps. First, they have to be nonslipping. Secondly, they have to be located precisely parallel to floor, without the slightest inclination. Correctly pick up handrail. It has to be equally convenient to hold them as the lowest, and the highest family member. Trace that handrail stood densely and reliably, and length of ladder coincided with floor height.
3. Trace that the angle of lead of ladder was no more than 45 degrees. The most optimal variant is 35-40 degrees. Pay attention and to width of steps. It should not be less than 80 cm.
4. The ladders made of stainless steel are considered as the strongest and durable. The term of their service is, as a rule, 40-50 years. The ladder from brass can quickly darken, and from the anodized aluminum – to be deformed. The chromeplated steel serves on average 5 years, and painted – 3 years.
5. Wooden ladders enjoy wide popularity at owners of cottages. If you have stopped the choice on such element of interior, know that the strongest wood resistant to influence of moisture and mechanical damages, at tic, makhagoniya, nut, ash-tree, wenge, muteniye. Treat strong breeds also: oak, maple and beech. But the maple can turn yellow and crack, the beech – to be deformed, and the oak is very susceptible to oil from traces from which oak ladder cannot almost be wiped.
6. For production of glass ladders it is used, as a rule, strong and easy acrylic seklo. However, over time it can turn yellow. The laminated and tempered glass are inclined to appearance of scratches.
7. If you have decided to place in the house ladder from stone, give preference to durable and strong quartzite or granite. Natural marble – rather soft breed. Steps of the ladder made of it already in a couple of years will begin to be abraded.