You re going to have to shore it up with lumber after you determine what failed.
Can an attic door opening by itself.
If you don t want this to happen in the future would suggest that you install some sort of latching device no matter how simple to prevent the hatch from coming open.
Temperature changes wind pressure and weak or faulty parts can all cause your attic door to fall open.
Now would it.
Yes a blast of air hitting the house coming through open windows can cause the attic door to lift up assuming it is not heavy.
Granny will rarely go to the attic by herself and will usually only come up if you make a noise.
The panel is approx.
Just double check every place in your home to make double sure no one.
Now its very windy where we live and so windy in fact that the wind blew our huge door open and a wind gust came into our house for a few moments.
While it may seem unnatural there are plenty of things that will cause an attic door to open.
My family went to church today and hten went out to eat with the rest of my relatives and then went to my relatives house.
Can be blown by a breeze or even.
Now that you know some reasons why your attic door could be.
It houses a one way shortcut to the bathroom using the attic tunnel.
A loose shutter a tree branch a wire or cable etc.
My attic opening is in my bedroom s walk in closet.
The attic is a floor of granny s house.
Overall an attic door can open by itself.
This floor was added in update 1 2 and can be accessed by going through the door next to bedroom 2.
Perhaps the framed opening is failing itself.
I would do 2 things first buy a step ladder so you can get into the attic work on this job and then get negative air pressure in there by putting in a fan in the gable vent.
Yes this is quite possible to happen.
16 x 24 made of 1 2 plywood secured to 2x4 frame so it weighs at least a couple of pounds.
Like we said your house isn t haunted.
Check the outside of the house.
This morning i noticed that the access panel was lifted and sitting above the frame.
Op probably just needs a better lock latch and he ll be ok.
We came home and a few hours later we found our attic door on the ceiling in my parents closet to be open.
Even something as simple as a hook and eye system would work and be easily opened.