On Friday, 20 April 2018 14:56:15 UTC+1, David WE Roberts (Google) wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:13:32 +0100, TimW wrote:

Elderly parents may need to abandon the stairs. We have a good sized
downstairs utility and boiler room so removing some storage and
installing a sink and shower shouldn't be too hard. I am wary of getting
specialists in who will mark everything up x2 at least and thinking of
specifying the requirements and hardware (enclosure, taps etc) and
supervising trades myself.

Where would i look to see what is available for any kind of special
sanitary equipment for the elderly, and where I could get it at a decent
trade price?

We have a local supplier of aids for the elderly and infirm, and if you
fill in the correct form you also save on VAT (or did about 5 years ago).

We went for a wet room with a moulded shower tray which was part of the
floor - basically a dished piece of flooring with a drain at the lowest
point. The whole room was then "tanked" with a waterproof flooring which
also went up the walls.

What we didn't do (and should have) was put a fall on the rest of the
floor so any water falling outside the shower tray would run into it.

It very much depends on your local area, but with luck you will find a
specialist shop which sells all manner of things including special toilets
and grab rails as well as shower fittings.

Remember to make the door wide enough for a wheelchair.

We aren't infirm (well not much so far) but when we revamped the back of
the house with included a disabled friendly wet room so we could live on
the ground floor only if we wanted.

There is room for a stair lift but at the moment we have a standard
bathroom upstairs and a wet room downstairs.

Stair lifts are O.K. but I wouldn't want to have to wait for one if I was
desperate for a wee!

Also, if you are wheelchair bound you would presumably have to transfer on
and off the stair lift at the bottom and top plus a transfer on and off
the toilet which could be more of a toil than just transferring on and off
the toilet downstairs.

You would probably have to convert the upstairs to a wet room as well at
some point.

IMHO it is more flexible to have a wet room downstairs and a stair lift as
well if you want access to the upper floor.


Cheers



Dave R

Failing to put a fall on the whole of a wetroom floor is a common & stupid mistake. It leads to floods. Don't do it!


NT