Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry Re: how to make a shower wheelchair friendly 2Jun 03, 2011 9:28 pm I shower people for a living, frameless or semi frameless will be fine. I prefer those showers. The best showers are the ones you can just wheel the shower chair into. Alot of people also have a board made that we put up and wheel them in. They can then be taken away and put out of the way. People even have the showers with just the drain, no screens, these are very good and can look really modern. You just hose the whole area down when finished, no worrying about glass. Good Luck. Re: how to make a shower wheelchair friendly 4Jun 04, 2011 8:42 am My fiancé and myself are both in chairs and are building right now. We are having the slab recessed for an open wheel in space with a shower curtain. Obviously easier when doing it from the start, but I think if we were remodeling for access we would take this route. I would hate to deal with a ramp up into the bathroom all the time. Maybe not so hard in a manual wheelchair, but things like that can be a real pain in a large awkward shower chair. Having no screens is also a plus for when you need maneuver around the toilet, but that also comes down to how big the bathroom is. Look forward to seeing how you go with it. Adam Follow our journey at http://www.notgoingtodreamworld.blogspot.com Our build thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=48999 Re: how to make a shower wheelchair friendly 5Jun 04, 2011 1:01 pm leanne27 Why not ask an occupational therapist? They will tell you what needs to be done. Got three options from the OT option 1 The OT wanted to take out half the and put a ramp leading up to the shower which would then have a false bottom to make it higher. However this would create more problems as the ramp would have to be removed each time you want to get in and out of the room as it would blocks access to the door and water would go all over the place. option 2. The OT said to remove shower, toilet and vanity and move them around the room. Get rid of the two person spa that's built into the brick wall just to make space. Dig into the slab to make the shower so it has a curtain only. option 3 Move. guess i could get the design of the ensuite to show you After some ideas on making our patio kid friendly . Currently we have exposed aggregate. The patio faces west and is always in sun even though it has a shade directly… 0 3649 Not sure who you're building with, but I moved in recently to a 11month scheduled, 8 month actual build on the South coast/Illawarra NSW 3 5919 I posted the floorplan on Houzz.com forum and got some really good ideas and advice from people there. Then we reached out to a couple of renovation companies and one… 5 10106 |