Discovered that the attic access hatch isn’t insulated, which honestly isn’t surprising given when it was built. No ladder system. I’m working on cutting up some foam boards to glue to the backside. Hopefully it will reduce how much is radiated through this barrier.
Unfortunately the hatch isn’t a pull-down. I have to push the board all the way up to get it out of the way. There’s not enough room to install a foldable ladder solution either since it’s at the end of the hall and doesn’t align with the doorways.
It’s frustrating since the solution you posted would be the ideal thing to install.
The tent is just the tent to sit over top of the hole in your ceiling. You’d just push the cover board up into the tent space then open the tent. My hatch has a tunnel built around it to retain several inches of loose fill insulation on the attic floor, and the tent sort of wraps around that tunnel/chimney. Not installed to manufacturer’s instructions. Between the tunnel & tent, there’s enough space to push the cover up and twist it to remove, then I lean a regular ladder against the tunnel to climb up & push the tent out of the way. Then just set it back over the opening on my way back down. Really just want something to make a second air chamber in that tunnel between the hot attic air and the fiberboard cosmetic cover.
You could probably get the same effect building a little foam-board roof over the opening, especially if your house doesn’t have the insulation-tunnel. It’s really that I found insulation bonded to the cover board made it too thick to twist out of the opening.
I’ll have to look at those tents sometime to see what would work well with what we’ve got going on up there. I wish they had a “landing pad” around the hatch so you could stand/sit or place tools while you work up there. There’s just so much blow-in insulation though that I don’t think I could make one without severely reducing the amount of insulation.