Burgerman wrote:I gave up on wet rooms and showers. Too messy caused me preSsure sores, takes way too long, and destroys bathrooms and carpets etc. Bed baths take 5 mins. I have carers here daily anyway.
Burgerman wrote:I gave up on wet rooms and showers. Too messy caused me preSsure sores, takes way too long, and destroys bathrooms and carpets etc. Bed baths take 5 mins. I have carers here daily anyway.
Burgerman wrote:This is around 13 to 14 years old. Nothing changed or deteriorated at all.
Theres is a floor drain as you see. No longer any shower.
There IS a tap and a hose. On the right. Mostly never used other than to fill a bucket of water or watering can or something.
Large gap underneath for my legs/feet. Cupboards for medication, supplies etc. And a toothbrush! This is off my bedroom.
Floor looks absolutely clean and unused. Gets a clean every few months with automotive "back to black" stuff. Takes around 10 mins to keep it that way. Now and again just throw a towel on the floor and get a carer to dust it with her feet. Very low maintainance. No water = no mess.
Burgerman wrote:Wide angle lens to "get it all in" makes rooms look bigger as it distorts walls. But still there is still plenty of space.
That bathroom, and the ex wet room, involved knocking down walls to make bigger but less rooms.
Same in kitchen. Extended, plus knocked down 2 walls, to get a bigger more open space for wheelchairs. Although this is a bungalow, there are 2 bedrooms and a bathroom/shower room upstairs too. That I have never seen in 23 years!
Kitchen, made bigger. Its not about adapted units etc really its SPACE that you need. So you can open things and swing or reverse away etc. Also dark tiles so that no marks or maintainance from tyres. And wider doors everywhere.
Do your carers do the cleaning or you get a cleaner in?
My carers will do basic cleaning but nothing to strenuous.
Another question on carers, is it difficult to find carers there, and stay around long?
Burgerman wrote:My local authority wanted to do something similar to this (below) at my front door in 97. At half the cost of redoing my driveway properly to give an invisible rise up to the front door instead. Albeit just 2 steps. And shorter.
So I did the driveway, and subsidised it with the councils grant money.
So it cost me a little more. At the same time it also gave me a shit load of parking area, and did away with a load of high maintainance garden and grass, and it doesent even look like a front door ramp at all because I did not want that!
Better plan! New drive, blended ram, no railings. Looks better and more practical for everyone. No sign of a ramp and railings... Which would you prefer? I did not want my house to be the one in my street that everyone drove past and saw "disabled". Same inside. Everything invisible.
This has moved a long way from showerchairs. But its all the same big joined up plan. Its no good running around putting out small fires one thing at a time. The woman in the post above, with silly council ramp, has now moved house to get more space... So all wasted.
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What type of tile is it? And how wide did you widen your doors I was curious.
I have a old wood ramp that's warped and needs replaced. I'm probably going to replace it with a portable railess metal ramp. I'm not sure yet. I would like something that can put away when I don't need it. What's your thoughts on something like that
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