Loft Hatch, Which type of Wood ?

Gray0103

Just installed some loft ladders, and as a result I need a new loft hatch.
I have looked on line and I an get a ready made one from Screwfix but my hatch is too small.

Can anyone reccomend the best type of wood to use for this, as I would like to give the underside a gloss paint finnish, but still have some insulation on the loft side.

Thanks

Debt_Free_Chick

I would just use architrave, the kind of stuff that you put around a door frame. Cheap as chips from somewhere like Build Center or any other builders' merchants. You'll need to mitre the corners for a neat finish.

HTH

weekendwarrior

You could of made the hole the correct size for the hatch, like this-
Making a loft hole

For the new hatch you can use either Pine or MDF, how to do it is here-

Making a loft hatch

gromituk

Plywood or blockboard will do just as well.

Debt_Free_Chick

Sorry - I misunderstood. I thought you just meant the area around the hatch-hole .... and not the hatch-door itself. I took it that you had the door with the ladders attached.

Gray0103

No its the actual door, now all I have to do is saw in a straight line.

Tight_Git_3

I replaced mine a couple of years ago, using MDF. It's dead easy to
work with, fairly cheap and I found the extra weight over ply board helped to form a good seal with the draught excluder strips around the edge. It's not supposed to warp either - which happened to the old ply board one.

I also stapled a thick plastic bag filled with loft insulation to the back. Not sure how that would work with a loft ladder set up though as the bag can foul the ladder mecanism.
Mine is also painted with ordinary gloss paint on the side you see, and it went on without a problem.

Gray0103

Tight_Git wrote:

I replaced mine a couple of years ago, using MDF. It's dead easy to
work with, fairly cheap and I found the extra weight over ply board helped to form a good seal with the draught excluder strips around the edge. It's not supposed to warp either - which happened to the old ply board one.

I also stapled a thick plastic bag filled with loft insulation to the back. Not sure how that would work with a loft ladder set up though as the bag can foul the ladder mecanism.
Mine is also painted with ordinary gloss paint on the side you see, and it went on without a problem.

For the insulation, I have some thick 20 mm, insulation/underlay left over from the laminate I laid a few years ago, so that is going on the loft side, installed MDF last night and due for painting tonight.