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Pull down Access Ladders, are manufactured by AM-BOSS in Australia since
1979.
Available in all States through many Distributors.
Smooth access panel, no screws or hinges visible, neat metal architrave,
draft seal, perfect counter balancing, adjustable ladder with bottom step
always the same distance of the floor as spacing from other steps. No
assembly needed, no cutting, no mistakes made.
This system is ideal to create safe access to the ceiling space for a
storage facility, or access to plant room and rooftop access. Installation
in joist or truss type ceilings is quite easy.
Suspended ceilings?
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We pioneered installations of access ladders into suspended ceilings,
and have done so for nearly twenty years. We developed a design using
galvanised steel profiles, specially made to suit this type of application.
Galvanised hangers and bracing will keep the galvanised steel support
frame rigid 40mm above the suspended ceiling. The AM-BOSS pull down access
ladder is then installed into the support frame; the zinc sealed steel
architrave of the access ladder is strong enough and will support the
ceiling around it.
A fixed secondary ladder will continue from the pull down access ladder
into the ceiling space to the plant room floor or the access hatch in
the roof to give access to air conditioning or what ever. In grid ceilings
we always install the access ladder into one grid.
At the moment we do a lot of work for telecommunications companies as
a lot of transmission towers are fitted to roofs on commercial buildings
and access is required through the ceiling on to the top floor which is
usually a suspended ceiling and onto the roof. Our Access ladders are
rated at 150 kg load rating, tested at Metlabs in Melbourne.
In commercial situations where the system is used many times a day, we
offer heavy-duty models.
We also manufacture swing down ladders suited for in door and out door
use. Beautifully engineered heavy-duty "Electric" models that
can be linked to smoke alarm systems for automatic opening or closing
of the stair system with battery and manual override. Top opener models
that can be operated manually from the floor above or below, very suitable
for escape situations or if traffic on the floor is heavy the service
person can retract the stair from above to minimise the inconvenience.
Those systems are imported from Germany.
Australian Standard? Any of the above systems are not listed by the ASA
at this point in time. However we comply with as many items of the standard
as possible, and our units are installed in all types of buildings, old
and new, government and private, because at the end of the day a fixed
pull down access ladder is much safer than a free standing stepladder.
Werner Hecht
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