The familiar blue and yellow colours on the Focus DIY website will immediately draw you in when you arrive there. You may not think of this as the best place to find a good selection of loft ladders, but as you will see there is a lot more choice than you might expect.
How do I find their website?
The website is easy enough to reach – it is at www.focusdiy.co.uk.
A Selection of the Best Selling Loft Ladders from Focus
How can I find all the loft ladders they sell?
You’ll see all the yellow tabs at the top of the site as soon as you arrive. Once you have spotted them, glance down the line and look for the one near the right hand end which says ‘tools and materials’.
Once you have got there, click on it and wait for all the choices that the next page brings up. Among all the boxes that appear you should see one that says ‘ladders’. Click on that.
You will notice that several types of ladders are included in the selection, but since most of them are loft ladders you probably won’t mind scrolling through the rest. The direct link for this page is http://www.focusdiy.co.uk.
Alternatively you can always search for ‘loft ladder’ – in which case you will be sent to this URL - http://www.focusdiy.co.uk.
Do they have plenty of loft ladders on their website?
You may think they have a reasonable selection available for you to look at. But when you look a bit closer you will see that for some reason most of the results returned to you for the search term ‘loft ladder’ are actually for standard ladders!
They do have both two and three section loft ladders however, so you should find the one you want. When we looked they only stocked aluminium ladders however, so you would need to shop elsewhere if you require a timber ladder.
In addition they have both basic and heavier duty ladders, so be sure to decide which one would suit you most.
Is there a lot of useful information on their site?
Their website is quite minimal when it comes to information, so don’t be surprised if the product pages are a little sparse.
With that said though you should be able to find what you need. The basic listings are comprised of a picture and the price, as well as a basic title which tells you how many sections that particular ladder has.
When you click on a particular loft ladder you will be able to read the information on that specific page. The most interesting thing about the product page is that it gives over a lot of room to the picture of the ladder. This is a great asset, although you cannot make it any bigger by zooming in on it in another window.
So the picture takes up the whole of the left side of the page. What is on the right hand side, you might wonder? Well you can find a simple list of features and benefits of that particular loft ladder. This could benefit from being bullet pointed, but as it is it gives you all the information you need.
At the bottom of this list it should also tell you whether the loft ladder is ideal for being used at home, or if you can use it for professional use as well. This might be relevant to you if you are interested in using it somewhere other than at home.
In addition there are clear buttons at the bottom for either printing off the page itself, or emailing the details to a friend (or of course to your own email address).
How easy is it to order my new loft ladder online?
It’s very easy to order a loft ladder from Focus DIY when you use their website. On every product page – and indeed on the main results page itself – you will see an order button. This ‘add to basket’ button is just by the price for the ladder, so it is hard to miss.
Clicking on it deposits that item in your basket, and you can then see your basket page. You don’t have to check out straightaway if you don’t want to, although the big ‘checkout’ button is very easy to find should you want to order your loft ladder without any further delays!
In conclusion
Focus DIY offers the basic loft ladder for home use on their website. You might also find something a bit more advanced if you need it, so it is definitely worth a look.