Weird request

[artie67]

Here's what I would install. Remove the existing handle and remove the latch portion. Reinstall the handles as before.
Now you need a closet door ball catch. The kind with the ball unit screwing into a mounting plate. On the jam you replace the jam plate with new one included in the set.
Fitting you might need glue and toothpicks. Then adjust the ball unit for that just perfect push on the attic handle for success.
You put a shower grab bar on the upside vertically to close from above. A 32" one goes for about $20. It should work as a push bar to open on the way down.
https://www.amazon.com/KINGSO-Bathroom-B...and%2Bgrab&qid=1569437018&s=hi&sr=1-20&th=1

[bazookaman]

artie67 wrote:
Here's what I would install. Remove the existing handle and remove the latch portion. Reinstall the handles as before.
Now you need a closet door ball catch. The kind with the ball unit screwing into a mounting plate. On the jam you replace the jam plate with new one included in the set.
Fitting you might need glue and toothpicks. Then adjust the ball unit for that just perfect push on the attic handle for success.
You put a shower grab bar on the upside vertically to close from above. A 32" one goes for about $20. It should work as a push bar to open on the way down.
https://www.amazon.com/KINGSO-Bathroom-B...and%2Bgrab&qid=1569437018&s=hi&sr=1-20&th=1

I kind of like this idea.

[macphanatic]

Replace the inside handle with a gear. Use a series of gears to a new handle higher up.

Edit: or use two gears and a belt or chain.

[$tevie]

No door knob. Pull handle on the outside, kick plate on the step side. Kick the door open.

[Acer]

I like using a lever knob on the inside. It is now a toe-operated door.

[Speedy]

Get one of those cylinders you see on screen doors to pull it closed. Don’t bother having a latch.

[RAMd®d]

Or chop off the bottom stairs and make a landing for behind the door.

This is exactly what I was going to suggest.

I'll have to get up earlier.

Nah, I'll just take my chances.

Anyway that would be what I'd do.


And years ago in another abode, I had a weird door knob that used a spring loaded ball that fit a detent in the jamb. the door could be pushed open or closed from one direction (it had a knob or handle on either side (for muscle symmetry and aesthetics, but needed a or handle to be opened and closed from the opposite direction.

Maybe it was a rim latch. I'll probably remember at about 0300hrs tonight.

[bazookaman]

Can't remove any stairs or that first step would be a double step up...or down.

[deckeda]

Good point. Hadn’t considered that. Employ butler/servant to operate door via text msg or bell rung from attic that activates to where butler/servant hangs out. The cables that move the bell can be run anywhere.

[MindMeld]

Move the door out three feet from the last step down which would create a small landing. Of course I don't know whether that's possible because I don't know where the current door is situated.