How to Retrofit a Home for Accessibility | Ask This Old House
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2016
- This Old House host Kevin O’Connor and Rick Castino from Operation Independence remodel a home for a wheelchair-enabled homeowner. (See below for steps.)
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Steps for How to Retrofit a Home for Accessibility:
1. Meet with the homeowner and his or her physical therapist to determine which rooms need to be altered to make the home accessible.
2. Identify the best entryway into the house. A two-car garage offers ample room to enter and exit a vehicle, and maneuver a wheelchair, especially during inclement weather.
3. Walk through the house and look for steps and other obstructions that lead from one room to another.
4. Check for obstructions and steps on both sides of the thresholds at patio doors.
5. To provide safe access to the second floor, without paying the exorbitant cost of an elevator, consider an automated stair chair.
6. Measure all doorways and make note of any that need to be widened to accommodate a wheelchair.
7. When evaluating the bathroom, take into account all wheelchair obstacles, including tubs, showers, vanities, and partition walls.
8. Install a battery-powered stair chair along the staircase leading from the main living area up to the second floor.
9. Build wood ramps or install steel ramps to provide access at all steps. Wheelchair ramps must be 1 foot long for each inch in height, so a 9-inch-high step would require a 9-foot-long ramp.
10. Replace a standard tub with a curbless, barrier-free shower stall.
11. Nail solid-wood blocking between the wall studs in the bathroom to provide support for grab bars.
12. Replace the existing bathroom floor with slip-resistant porcelain tile.
13. Install a slide-bar showerhead with handheld sprayer, and an adjustable fixed showerhead, to accommodate people of all physical abilities.
14. Mount two or three standard grab bars in the shower stall.
15. Double-duty grab bars are also available, including ones that serve as a towel rack, soap dish, and toilet-paper holder.
16. Modify the existing vanity to allow the wheelchair to roll beneath the bath sink.
17. Mount offset hinges onto the bath door to provide additional clearance into the bathroom.
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DAD LOOKS LIKE A NICE GUY, GOD BLESS HIM...
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it brought tears to my eyes it reminded me when we were building our house and thinking of how can we make it easier for grandma, by the time we finished I found out I had MS and I might god forbid use it. we choose to use an elevator for our house.
Hopefully the dad lives long enough to enjoy all of the new modifications to his home. Good work fellas.
At the beginning you can see the sadness in this gentleman's eyes.
This brought tears to my eyes.
i hope to have a son and daughter like that very caring
My great grandparents had an elevator in their house, and my uncle now lives there and the elevator was very useful. My grandmother’s worst enemy was stairs as she got older. The elevator was installed by my great grandfather with his own two hands. Us Italians are like that. The elevator takes up all three floors of the house. The motor and all the controls are in the basement, and the car is for the first and second floor. 100% fail safe. Gets an inspection every year. God bless you and your family!
Sometime construction is not for vanity, but for Love: Well done!
Great job! Really appreciate that you guys made an episode like this. Please make a few more. Thank you.
I would love to afford to do this to our bathroom for my Dad.
Saving this for when we redo our bathroom. We both have parents who needed adapted spaces toward the end of their lives, so we are very conscious of making all our renovations accessible for our own later years. Thank you so much for this episode.
U guys are amazing finally what is the damages. Nice know some people are doing a great work.nothing like living in ur own home memories are priceless.
This is my favorite episode.
You are the best!
This is from 4 years ago. I hope his Mom and Dad are still doing ok.
Very impressive.
You've given us a few good ideas!
Thanks for this.
Good to be home; best place to heal.
I hope they put traction tape or paint on that treated exterior deck ramp. Older wet treated wood can be slick as snot.
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This Old House always great 👍
well done .thank you
I love it 😜🤟you guys did a fantastic job Amen 😆👍👍👍 thanks this Old House 💋
Great job on the bathroom....
PLEASE HELP what grab bars did you use? They look great!
Very helpful - might be time for an update - how to ADD an accessible bathroom addition & make existing kitchen more wheelchair friendly.
Also, an elevator lift would be more convenient and leave a better footprint for the house. I am not a fan of stair chair lifts. It is very difficult to go up and down stairs after it is installed, and it's just not aesthetically pleasing.
Wow that’s what I need in my house to get around
Wow this was incredible. Even if accessibility wasn’t an issue that bathroom would be a great remodel
"There it goes. Up the stairs."
Nice job...The old guy was not too long for this world...
We had a bathroom arch plenty wide enough, but the door and the towel rack stop behind it were the problem. He could get through the door, he just couldn't get the chair PAST the door, sometimes bottle necking so no one could get into the bathroom to help him back out again, without standing IN the chair next to him to vault over it.
There are no words.
Good job
So nice
Bathroom is awesome but they should’ve added a built in bench for the dad. Since he can’t stand.
They could probably just use a bath stool but a bench would be better
Easiest way is with a waterproof shower wheelchair
Nice!
I think we missed or they didn't show us the additional bars around the toilet.. That will need them or at least some apparatus around it to aid moving up and down or from chair to seat.
The new toilet paper holder IS a bar. You missed it.
Nice!!
unbelievable electric instalations in the wall close to the shower , don't understand why this is allowed.
Where do you find the metal shower base?
Thanks.
If they do this enough it might be proprietary
Chair lifts can be found used on Craigslist and FB marketplace for those on a budget !
Wow
Would like to know the brand of chairlift please?
Handicare
My dad modified his home in 2014 just in case he had to go into a wheel chair. Last year in April 2019 he went into a wheelchair. But died in July. Great job guys.
Was there any info about the costs of the other improvements? If so I missed it.
It's all subsidized through OPB....
Looked like about 20 grand to me. Bathroom remodel 10, stair climber 5, garage ramp 3500, deck ramp 1000, inside ramp 500,
Amazing work but then I seen he was a Patriots fan 😢 But honestly great work you guys
Shoulda gotten dad's reaction to the bathroom. That'd be unique. Guess that'd be challenging for the cameraman.
what a crime, the old man is a Patriot fan lol; good work!
Wow that chair is so freakin loud
Justin Lewis The manufacturer probably made it that way to warn people that there is something mechanical moving. Just like the reverse beep of a truck. If you're a bit handy it must be easy to kill the noise. Or just find the speaker hole and put 10 layers of ducttape over it ;). But killing the beeping comes with the responsibility of not getting injured by the silent straiway chair of course..
Go Pats!
Need pipe padding under the bath sink.
Total cost?? 40k-50k?🤷♂️
Pays for itself, Far Cheaper than a nursing home.
That bathroom mirror is too high. I wish people would consult with real wheelchair users
mikeinbmore they don't always do all the work on the show. They'll often leave painting or final details to the homeowner. Moving a mirror is really easy for the son to do so that might be why.
The lady of the house must, also, use the bathroom; so both occupants can make a few compromises.
@@nowtelsematters if the point is to retrofit for the disabled father, than there's no excuse not to consider his vantage point from the chair.
@@hestonjimmie2 that's hilarious. Not being able to use a bathroom mirror is a compromise?
@Chris P Bacon at the 10:32 mark, he specifically and erroneously points out that the father can pull under the sink and use the mirror.
Sadly elevators for homes aren't built for the weight of my husband plus the weight of his 474 lb. Power wheelchair too.
How much does your husband weigh?
@@gangisspawn1 Dean weighs right at 300 lbs. So with his 475 lb. power wheelchair I haven't seen a home elevator that could work for him.
@@kayfr3841 you are right, basic ones limit total weight to 750 lb
who's the one, SOB that doesn't like this video?!
Darwin!
I am! And I got good reasons!
Might've been me. This retrofit is full of fail that the average able bodied person wouldn't even recognize
"We don't want it to look institutional in any way"
**puts a 9 foot ramp and landing area in the garage**
That lip at the bottom of the ramp at 7:45 is NO GOOD. There is no way his wheelchair can get up that without assistance from someone. It must be a smooth transition. They need to sit in that wheelchair themselves and try that ramp.
Absolutely! If the people making wheelchair accessible homes would simply put their selves in the shoes off a WC user, they would better understand the needs and subtle issues
The ADA rules do allow a 1/4 inch vertical lip at the start of a ramp. If what is too thin, the beginning of the wedge wears out pretty quickly. But you're right, it is a bit of a bump to go over.
So generic. Forgot a raised toilet and How would you get a wheelchair up those stairs? Offset hinges can be a life saver but they forgot to mention that there are a hell of a lot of homes with 24 inch bathroom doors and there is no way for wheelchair bound folks to get through them. The garage ramp was total overkill and was more of a commercial system. Glad they got the old man home and he is fortunate enough to have these modifications done for him. Sadly many others are not and are prisoners in their own homes.
9 foot ramp for a 9 inch step? That's a lot of wasted space, why not at least 5 foot long for a 9 inch step. Good video though, old folks have to be mobile too
Wouldn't a 9 foot ramp be less steeper then a 5 foot one?
john M of course it would. I've seen much steeper, heavy duty power chairs aren't top heavy, haven't seen an issue..
Integra DIY less steep makes it easier to wheel longer the better.
ADA wheelchair ramp specifications require a 1:12 ramp slope ratio.
Hope you're never in charge of building a ramp for Nanna. She's screwed!
$100,000 later
nah bro all free
"The objective is to get my fawtha home" lol sounds like an episode of sopranos
I wouldn't like the shower like that. Water will still splash all over the other side of the shower curtain
Amazing what a gimmick the lift chair is. Anyone who is half-mechanically inclined could put one in but they make it an overpriced business where it’s impossible to do it yourself because they only sell to people with some license to screw it into your floor.
The guy who put one in for my parents ended up putting 6 screws into a finished hardwood floor when it was completely unnecessary.
That metel ramp looks so ugly, why cant they just make one out of concrete? it'll blend in with the garage floor and wont move
Cost
And how do you remove the ramp after dad has gone?
It means that you will forever sacrifice a large chuck of floor space, also a bolted down metal ramp isn't going anywhere.
Money obviously no object sans an elevator. Poor people like us use lumber and plywood. Got a aluminum folding ramp for taking when we visit out was almost 300.
They may want to sell the house one day. Buyers are turned off by accessible modifications. Or so I've been told
Patriots... yikes
0:32 HIPAA violation
It is only a HIPAA violation if he didn't receive permission from the patient.
@@michaelmosier5627 😂
He died 7 weeks after this job was complete
$40.000 starting price for a stairlift, christ.
I think he said $40.000 for a elevator, the stair one is cheaper
$40,000 for an elevator not the lift
That's the elevator, not the stairlift.
Stair-Lifts start at about $1,200 But are typically bought with a finance plan with interest making them around $1,800 - $2,500 all said for the lift and labor. Depending factors like location and features/ brand. Really quite reasonable compared to a full lift which does the same function..
The price of home elevators had decreased a lot
did a that work and his dad wont live long, what a waste of money.
It's cheaper than an assisted living facility, keeps his dad at home and his mother can benefit from it too.
Howard James They should have pushed the dad off a bridge. Much cheaper.
The Cat Man lol
Howard James I think the bathroom looks a hell of a lot better than the old one. Not just for the sake of the mobility part. It's much more modern and easier to keep properly clean. All the other work are just some simple ramps. Only the stairway lift is probably quite expensive and solely for mobility. But it can be sold again, or maybe the woman might get also old soon and use it too.
There are people in the world with more compassion than you. Your day will come.
This contractor preyed on the sons grief to do as much as possible. A $50 shower transfer chair and removing the shower doors would have saved 10 grand for the bathroom. Stair chair was appropriate for their house.
Dad dies like a month later by falling down the stairs, WASTE OF MONEY