Making a trapdoor in plasterboard ceiling.

[Happy Grumpy]

There's an upstairs bathroom that I could do with getting above.

It's a converted attic style upstairs and the bathroom has been brick walled off above the ceiling. So the only way in is up through the it's plasterboard ceiling.

It has a small trapdoor already, but barely large enough to stick one's head through, nevermind the rest of one's body.

I Presume it's an easy enough job to have done.

I guess that they mark it off, cut through with a jigsaw cutter, put in a metal border around both it and the door, and that's it.

anyone had one done here?

anything to watch out for?

How much did you pay?

Any name or number of a guy in Chiang Mai that could do it?

cheers.

[eyecatcher]

Its not quite as simple as that unfotunately.

If it only has a head trap then its not been trimmed out....in other words the access hatch needs to be framed out to carry your weight as you climb tbrough.

Normally this would be done with some small pieces of steel or timber.

At global chiang mai in the back steel and plasterboard area they have pre made loft access traps i think 500x500 and 600x600 at about that price 600bt.

Go and check them out. I would imagine that they are simply screwed into the trimmers you need to fit.

The access is the 10 minute job the trimming could take you all day.

[GavinK]

Check where the steel joists in the roof are and where the brick walls end. If you can cut a hole near to where these are and use the wall and existing joists to pull yourself up/lower you down then can be done as you described in your post. Same if you can lean a ladder through the hole to rest against a wall/joist.

More sturdy solution required if you need the hole in a specific place which doesn't have joists near-by.

[Happy Grumpy]

^ and ^^

great, thanks.