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Philiboy834 Dec 2012 11:29Hello everyone,
We are currently planning the construction of a single-family house and want to include an accessible guest bathroom with a shower on the ground floor, since my girlfriend’s grandfather uses a wheelchair and will often stay with us. Also, you never know what life might bring, so it’s good to be prepared for the future.
However, whether it is truly accessible in real life as it appears on paper is another question. We have received a floor plan where this has been planned—what do you think? Is it suitable for a wheelchair user to use the toilet, wash their hands, and shower or be showered there? (No shower tray, but an open shower with a floor drain and, if necessary, a folding screen or curtain towards the toilet. The room could be expanded by reducing the size of the utility room.)
Best regards
We are currently planning the construction of a single-family house and want to include an accessible guest bathroom with a shower on the ground floor, since my girlfriend’s grandfather uses a wheelchair and will often stay with us. Also, you never know what life might bring, so it’s good to be prepared for the future.
However, whether it is truly accessible in real life as it appears on paper is another question. We have received a floor plan where this has been planned—what do you think? Is it suitable for a wheelchair user to use the toilet, wash their hands, and shower or be showered there? (No shower tray, but an open shower with a floor drain and, if necessary, a folding screen or curtain towards the toilet. The room could be expanded by reducing the size of the utility room.)
Best regards
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Bauexperte4 Dec 2012 13:04Philiboy83 schrieb:
We have received a floor plan with this layout. What do you think? Is it suitable for a wheelchair user to access the toilet, wash their hands, and shower or be showered? (No shower tray, but an open shower with a floor drain and possibly a folding screen or curtain towards the toilet.) Did you inform your designer that the shower bathroom must be accessible for disabled users?
If you are planning a disabled/wheelchair-accessible shower bathroom, there must be a turning radius of 1.50 m (5 feet) for the wheelchair user (see the example of a disabled-accessible granny flat). The clear width of the interior door must also be increased.
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Philiboy834 Dec 2012 14:50Well, we decided that someone in a wheelchair should be able to use the toilet and shower on the ground floor and, of course, also access the living room and guest room, but this is not meant to be an everyday situation.
So the ground floor should not be approved or certified as fully accessible, but rather to make visiting in a wheelchair easier (for everyone involved).
If one were to be in a wheelchair oneself, which of course is not something we hope for and is rather rare, remodeling would definitely be necessary. We just don’t want to allocate extra funds for that possibility. And your grandfather just has to accept that when visiting others, not everything will be adapted for him.
But now I at least have a starting point for how the guest bathroom with shower would need to be modified. There is still potential, as the utility room could definitely be smaller, since we will only have, for example, a heating system there that takes up little space, and essentially only necessary items like a washing machine, dryer, and gardening clothes.
So the ground floor should not be approved or certified as fully accessible, but rather to make visiting in a wheelchair easier (for everyone involved).
If one were to be in a wheelchair oneself, which of course is not something we hope for and is rather rare, remodeling would definitely be necessary. We just don’t want to allocate extra funds for that possibility. And your grandfather just has to accept that when visiting others, not everything will be adapted for him.
But now I at least have a starting point for how the guest bathroom with shower would need to be modified. There is still potential, as the utility room could definitely be smaller, since we will only have, for example, a heating system there that takes up little space, and essentially only necessary items like a washing machine, dryer, and gardening clothes.
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