How Do You Design A Wheelchair Ramp To Build At Home?
When you find out somebody’s coming home from the hospital in a wheel chair, it’s time to get into action. They might be in recovery for a while, but when they’re ready to venture out and about–they’ll need a way to get safely out and back into their home. You should send somebody to check local building codes and while they’re doing that–you start laying out what you’re going to build. The ramp has to be sturdy, safe, usable and be able to fit where it needs to be. Building Codes don’t take money, space, and resources into account. I suggest you build what I call a “temporary” ramp. My first temporary ramp is as good as new-5 years later. On the graph paper, sketch a drawing of the house the ramp is going to enter. Measure from the walkway level to the floor level of the house–don’t forget that the porch level will have to be raised to be even with the house floor. Take the distance from the walkway to the house floor in inches and multiply by feet. If it is 18 inches, your ramp wi
