The super macro guessing game (5)

dasmith232 wrote in post #19053391
Even with the answer, I'm not sure what this thing is...

I'm inferring that British "loft" = U.S. "attic" and that British houses have a particular kind of entry to that space, a hole with a ladder that unfolds or swings down for use and retreats into the ceiling for storage. Something like that, anyway.

OhLook wrote in post #19053522
I'm inferring that British "loft" = U.S. "attic" and that British houses have a particular kind of entry to that space, a hole with a ladder that unfolds or swings down for use and retreats into the ceiling for storage. Something like that, anyway.

yeah ... something like that

Here in the States most houses, at least in the South, have folding stairs leading to the attics. Most of the houses I have been in simply have a pull string to open the door that keeps the folding stairs in the attic. Here is a link with several of them. These are pretty standard here. Folding Attic Ladders

Chris ... we need a picture of the entire thing.

I think that it is something like this

https://www.homedepot.​com …04354248?modalT​ype=drawer

ECC233 wrote in post #19053577
Chris ... we need a picture of the entire thing.

I think that it is something like this

https://www.homedepot.​com …04354248?modalT​ype=drawer

I will but what you've pictured is the same. Mine is as old as the house, possibly.

Loft appears to be Nordic/Germanic in derivation and attic Greek, but they really mean very much the same thing here now. Loft pole & loft hatch are easier to say that attic pole & attic hatch perhaps. A small rooom - garret - is more likely to be called an attic room. We often have the two (or more) sources for words of similar meaning. "Wed" and "marry" is another pair. The north of the country tends to use more of the nordic-sourced words, cuz that's where the Vikings did more of their raping and pillaging.

I'm hoping for inspiration towards something more appropriate than the back end of a pencil sharpener...

I think we did the back end of a pencil sharpener!

ECC233 wrote in post #19053613
I think we did the back end of a pencil sharpener!

Exactly!

Is it fiberglass?

Chris-R wrote in post #19053892
...And it's really easy

Says the man who took the picture!

Does the white thing rotate in reference to the beige bit?

dasmith232 wrote in post #19053982
Is it fiberglass?

Says the man who took the picture!

No.


and he's like that...

hqqns wrote in post #19054004
Does the white thing rotate in reference to the beige bit?

Not normally.

Is it the edge of a toilet? Oops, I mean water closet...

dasmith232 wrote in post #19054027
Is it the edge of a toilet? Oops, I mean water closet...

No!

The white part looks like a polystyrene lid