On 21/04/2018 20:48, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
TimW writes:
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?

People like BES sell some:
https://www.bes.co.uk/plumbing-suppl...ers/grab-rails

Amazingly, grab rails like this are the one bit of kit for the disabled
which doesn't get a silly mark-up. I fitted a couple to my horse van to
make it easier to clamber in the back.

After a few incidents in the family which ended up in hospital,
we had a good chat with the hospital-based social services team,
and they gave lots of excellent advice. They also provided frames
to go around the toilets to give you arm rests for when you sit
and stand back up. When visiting the hospital, I took the
opportunity to look at detail at the disabled toilets and fittings.

Excellent advice, been there done that!

The disabled toilets at my current client has a toilet which looks
somewhat like a sit-down bath which I've never seen before. I think
it's basically a bath you can take a **** in and then hose out.