Wheelchair Shower

This bas has almost a 6 inch lip on it. only 21/4 inches wide. Can it be cut down some and put a collapsible water retainer where the cut is. I know that the fiberglass is hollow inside. Is there any way to fix this?

I don't think it will work. If you have the room, how about a small ramp outside of the shower? You will be a little steep, but it's not a long run. That doesn't fix the problem inside the shower getting back down off the lip. If you have a local plumbing supply house or maybe on the internet, check to see if there isn't some type of a saddle available that you would lay over the existing shower curb. good luck.

2008-04-10 09:05:45 by Faye O

A short video to show what a typical shower consists of for me.

I need to replace the tub with one. Money is an object. I live in a condo in Seattle and don't have the $25k estimates that I've been given. I don't want a franchise or Redi-Tile. The room is 9' by 6'. I'm thinking of a shower with a lip running along the length of the floor to help keep the water in. My wheelchair will be pushed up a small ramp at the back to make getting over the lip easy. The drain will stay where it is. The shower floor will be slightly sloped. The back of the new floor will be about a quarter inch higher than the foot of the shower where the drain will be. The combination of the lip & sloped floor should help keep the water inside the shower and flowing to the drain.

We use a heavy duty cloth shower curtain, twice as thick and absorbent as a bath towel. I use a hand held nozzle to direct the spray. I don't need any wall-mounted shower controls because there will always be someone there to help. At most, a hook mounted on the wall to hold the shower hose in place while it's not in use might be needed.

What are the up & down sides of Kerdi? What kind of surface can or will it adhere to? Ceramic tiles, fiberglass? Do any other products or designs come to mind? One contractor suggested a very slight "sloping" of the bathroom floor up to the lip to make it easier to wheel over the lip. Rebuilding the entire floor will cost more, I think, than building a solid lip and sloped shower floor.

Any ideas are welcome.

No idea on how to remodel within your budget and lease constraints, but when we designed showers for chair-friendly apartments, we used a double slope plan- the entire room sloped gently to the drain, and the shower area sloped a little more. Sort of a shallow bowl in a shallow bowl idea.

Regular shower curtain, and the design meant that with the curtain open, the entire room was usable chair moving space. (We also put the sink in a corner. The toilet is the only thing 'poking out' into the room.)

Drainage has gone well and the plan has worked for every apartment we built it into.

2009-07-01 17:53:28 by OneOfTheGoodOnes

Price: $298.87 $110.18

Anodized aluminum frame.
Back removes for easy cleaning (tool free).
3" Non-skid, rust resistant, swivel casters (2 rear locking).

Hi
contact Hotel Royal@Queens and Hotel Rendevous directly. I've spoken to them about this before. They may be able to help.

http://www.royalqueens.com.sg/

http://www.rendezvoushotels.com/singapor e/

2008-07-12 02:36:55 by Jerome J

craigslist.com....broward might be more feasible for that price range...miami might be alittle more uppity...

2006-06-21 13:12:13 by omarys_silva

I have a wheelchair, shower chair, and a nebulizer (for asthmatics) that I would love to donate. However, Goodwill and the Red Cross does not accept these items. I'm looking for some place close to either Jonesboro/Stockbridge/McDonough, GA to donate these items, even if it's a hospital, church, or a private agency.

Freecycle: http://www.freecycle.org/groups/ussouthe rn/#Georgia

2007-04-30 05:16:04 by armybrat1989