Building Wheelchair Ramp

My wife and I paid our own money to add a wheelchair ramp to a home that we are renting. I'm quite sure that this cost would be deductible if we owned the home, but I'm not clear about our status with this as renters. Is it spelled out clearly someplace?

While its not really relevant to this question, homeowners can only include capital improvements for medical reasons (ie: a wheelchair ramp) in medical expenses to the extent which the cost of the improvement exceeds the increase in home value due to the improvement.

2009-12-30 15:57:12 by JC

Follow a city building inspector as he examines and explains the safety and construction design details of a typical wheelchair ramp from www ...

I have to do a project on building wheelchair ramps using mathematics and I am not having any luck finding any sources. Every time i search it online i can only find where to buy them or to hire a contractor to build one! anyone have any suggestions as to where to look?!

Don't know where to look on the web, but basically it sounds like your problem is to:
--realize any ramp is mearly a right triangle.
--figure how much rise you need.
--figure how much run (horizontal space) you have to work with.

Sketch the side view, being sure to show the angle where the chair first rolls onto the ramp.
The 'rise' would be the vertical distance from the ground up to the porch or deck or whatever the chair needs to get up onto.
The 'run' is the horizontal distance. There might be a tight space without much room, or maybe you have 30 or 40 yards...but maybe you don't need 30 or 40 yards! You wouldn't want the person in the chair to muscle their way up a 45 degree angle, but you wouldn't want them to travel 40 yards if it isn't necessery.

2008-04-14 14:43:27 by someone

I live in Saskatchewan Canada, and I need to build a wheelchair ramp. The door is 40" off the ground. What is the ratio of rise to run? Do I need a permit if this is only temporary? Someone will be pushing the wheelchair up the ramp, so we can go with a steeper incline. from the front of the house to the sidewalk is 16'. ANY help will be greatly appreciated.

Believe it is the same in Canada & US but better check local regs for permits for temporary structures as well as requirements for ramp width, railings & "landing" size while your'e at it. Rule is 12' of run for every inch of rise so you are looking at a 40 foot + ramp.
To maintain the proper incline you will have to build the ramp with "switchbacks" like a mountain road with flat landings at each turn & at door entrance.
Need to check clear door opening & direction of swing as well.
Just a guess , but don't think you can get away with a steeper incline , pushed chair or not in Saskatchewan esp if snow & ice will be an issue.
Have seen ramps on temporary field office & classroom trailers
Maybe you can rent .
Thinking a scaffolding rental firm?
Best Regards

2009-10-02 15:35:02 by Justin D

(see figure) for a business. Using your knowledge of right-triangle trigonometry, help advise him how to create a ramp whose dimensions will meet the specification needed that will allow wheelchair accessibility. Talk about the procedure the contractor will need to follow to find the dimensions of the three sides and the measurements of the three angles. Consider the implications of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in your discussion and provide an example.

Basic issue is the maximum safe ramp angle. If you know the height difference then you can find the length of ramp by the following relationship:

ramp length = (height change) / sin (ramp angle)

suppose the height difference is 4 ft, and safe maximum ramp angle is 10 degree (I don't know this angle is correct, you need to look this up at ADA website). Then the length of ramp is:

ramp length = 4 / sin 10 = 23 ft.

2008-11-01 06:58:00 by Michele C

This site should be of help:

http://www.thewheelchairsite.com/wheelch air-ramps.aspx

2008-02-14 18:59:13 by dpreston200124151