External ladder Installation

Hobbsy

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Can anyone advise on how to install and the best place to buy an external ladder say 1.5m long to access the roof rack on the rear of my talbot merlin motor home? i have found a fiamme deluxe 5 ladder for £75 delivered but i am guessing this will have to be bolted throught the body and insulation and bolted to the frame? is this true? if so, how do you know (a) where the frame is and (b) how do fiamma know where to put there mounts or are most ladders specific to vehicles and the one i have found is perhaps a standard that may or may not fit???
thanks on advance!
 
Hobbsy said:
Can anyone advise on how to install and the best place to buy an external ladder say 1.5m long to access the roof rack on the rear of my talbot merlin motor home? i have found a fiamme deluxe 5 ladder for £75 delivered but i am guessing this will have to be bolted throught the body and insulation and bolted to the frame? is this true? if so, how do you know (a) where the frame is and (b) how do fiamma know where to put there mounts or are most ladders specific to vehicles and the one i have found is perhaps a standard that may or may not fit???
thanks on advance!
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You will need to bolt through the walls and specially to the frame if you can find them.

Fiamma ladders fit most vans but obviously they do need specialist skills

Peter
 
If and when you do get an external ladder fitted make sure you can get a leg over the top to the roof, sometimes age makes it difficult if you dont have railings slightly above the roof (saftey in mind)
 
You could always get your wife to give you a hand:wacko:

Sorry I'll sign off now.
 
My Merc Westfalia 309 has a ladder on the rear half door which has reinforcements on the inside of the door - about a 50 or 60 mm wide by about 4mm thick piece of mild steel the width of the door, two holes for the ladder bolts on each one. Seems to work fine and as yet I've not noticed the door flexing too much. The doors are just mild steel probably about 1mm thick, but they have the advantage of a lot of folds and ribs to make them nice and rigid.
 
I purchased a new Fiamma ladder last year and was surprised to find the fixing kit supplied with it consisted of a few 'pop-rivets', when you think about it though the reasoning seems to be better for a few rivets to fail than to rip the back of the van off.
Needless to say I bolted it through to bracing points.
 
David & Ann said:
If and when you do get an external ladder fitted make sure you can get a leg over the top to the roof, sometimes age makes it difficult if you dont have railings slightly above the roof (saftey in mind)
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That's a good point, cheers
 
Try and fit it where there's a cupboard so you can fit a large spreader plate which is then only on view when you open the cupboard door - like when fitting a Fiamma awning!
 
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