Wheelchair door access in the UK is a concern for any owner of a public access building. As well as providing ramps, steps, handrails, grab rails, and disabled bathroom facilities, your door must be wheelchair-friendly too. Below is a look at the regulations, to date, for wheelchair door access. In the UK, your door access […]
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Disabled door openers are a useful addition to your home if you have an elderly relative living with you. In public places you will find door openers that are lowered for wheelchair height. You will also find that the door handles on disabled public toilets are larger and easier to grab than on the standard
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Owning a commercial property in the UK comes with responsibility. Part of that responsibility is providing suitable wheelchair access to your store, café, or other public building. In the UK, disabled access doors should be fitted to your commercial premise. Failure to make alterations means that you are not complying with the Equality Act, and
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If you’re looking at making your business more disabled-friendly, both for customers, as well as employees too for that matter, fitting products such as disabled doors or access ramps is a great place to begin, but which other steps should ideally be taken? Making your business disabled-friendly is not only a legal requirement, but more
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Wheelchair accessible door width standards in the UK were brought about with the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995, which was then replaced by the Equality Act of 2010. The major purpose of these acts and the variations that can be found are the rights that they give to those who are disabled in any way,
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Nowadays, tools and pieces of equipment designed to assist people with disabilities, disabled access doors for example, are becoming more and more popular than ever before. Many of us take day to day living for granted, even things as seemingly simple as walking through our doors each morning, which, if we were disabled, we simply
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Most of us don’t give a second thought when passing through the doors in our home, but that whole process changes the moment you have to try and navigate those same doors when confined to a wheelchair. The design of hinged doors means that your actual access space is not as wide as it would
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I am sitting in my kitchen as my daughter is watching a movie in the other room of our house. I canhear the movie in the background and from time to time the sounds of my daughter playing while Iprepare her lunch. From time to time I can glance over my shoulder to see what
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In order for someone in a wheelchair to comfortably navigate a home, the doorways in said home must be at least 32 inches wide (36 inches if the chair must turn to pass through the door). Many older homes were built without any consideration given to wheelchair accessibility, however, making door widening necessary in the
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Renovating your home for use by a disabled person is a large undertaking, and if you yourself are able-bodied, it may not be the most intuitive process. The following list, while by no means extensive, provides an overview of many of the major “problem areas” in the average home that will need to be renovated,
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