Remodeling your bathroom safety

You are cosmetic changes in the bath will keep you in style, though, but a security update, which you can see at the parade of trends and the actual number of years in the family that you love. It is not unusual indicators, such as a recent study, AARP found that nearly ninety percent of adults over 50 and want to remain in their current home and community because they are obsolete.

Upgrading the bathroom with a safety first approach, not only for you in various stages of their lives, as well as the accessibility and convenience for the family and the house guests of all ages and abilities. Take a few moments with the AARP list of Bad evaluate the rich and the poor in its current configuration, and then stroll along the following guidelines to ensure an updated security plan.

Every day, and security

# Start at the door, which at least 32 cm in width, has a lever style handle and easy to open outwards if possible. Pocket doors best option because it is easy to use and provide immediate access for people with wheelchairs or walkers. Pocket doors without barriers through the many adjacent wall space for installation, but can also draw on the walls, if necessary.

# When it comes to sex, to choose non-slip surface, and small rugs with double antiprigarnye tape. Make sure there is enough space for comfortable swimming in wheelchairs.

# Enter the number with lots of bright light, and light at night on call at any time. Rocker switches are very useful for all, and even in models of lighting.

# It looks like five-star luxury hotel, but the phone in the bathroom at the end is actually the life saver. Select your wall nonportable model with the biggest shades you can find the key and set it to a height that is easily accessible, even if it is in place. Also you need to program the phone with all important phone numbers.

Dress # cabinets with easy to understand the hardware.

Shower and Bath
# Installing new equipment or a simple upgrade of existing security and easy access. In the tubes, the samples in the bank or the transfer of knowledge, which allows the user to place and turn your feet in hand and bath. Bars built to assist in the reduction in water and various surfaces and traditional varieties of sliding a soft, flexible cushion in the muscles and joints. Pipes also available options, so you go to the bath through a door in the wall behind them to seal. If you prefer, with a bath, that is already on its own initiative, an anti-slip decals or bored, and bars.

# Speaking of bars, to invest only in models that can accommodate up to 250 pounds. The rods are available in various forms and textured surfaces, but no matter what the style should be 1 ¼ to 1 ½ inches in diameter and mounted at a convenient distance from the wall (usually 1 ½ inches from the wall and the distance test, you should be able to understand your first serious between the bar and the wall). Here you will find bars, with those on the wall at both ends and can be horizontally or vertically, and the types of compounds, with those on the wall at one end, and the rest on the wall when not in use. Most importantly, to bars on the walls of the development - not just dry wall or tile! To identify, research using the browser and then sent to the grave of a bar with screws long enough to penetrate deep into the research.

# Consider replacing the tub with legs in the shower - only with new models for the current trace of the bathroom. Attracting new or existing shower with a bar, walls, folding seat, a shelf for shampoos and soaps, as well as the handheld shower head.

# Reduce the temperature of water heater. It only takes a few seconds, and more than 130 degrees in order to use, they should take. Check the temperature of the water and, if necessary, reduce to 120 degrees. After the purchase of equipment to combat the sizzling, added wash basins, bathtubs and shower, and start when the water is warmer than 115 degrees.

# Consider the plumber balanced pressure valve, water temperature, despite the loss of pressure. For example, popular Moen Posi-Temp pressure balancing that is the cycle of water valve does not affect consumers feeling "shower shock," an increase in hot or cold water. Even if you have a dishwasher and washing toilet, the valve provides water remains constant +2 ° C to a temperature lower than in the shower, comfortable and safe.

Sinks and washbasins
# Install the vanity sink and comfortable height, standing or sitting in the laundry (in Rule 34 inches). When choosing a model, the need for open space directly below the sink for wheelchair users, installation and maintenance, such as a chest, towels, electrical outlets and are easily accessible series. Also check the tilt of the wall mirror.

# The AAP recommends that the leadership of "A", if you have accessories: Open the faucet, not two, and mango, lever-style tap. Motion detection fixtures add freedom of movement, "to" No ", but also help save water.

Toilets
Select # Workshop toilets (17 cm compared with the standard 14 inches) less than the load on feet, knees and back. Existing installations can be equipped with the best plumbing installed in the platform for swimming or a place that raises the height of a toilet, which establishes plastic screws in place to move or slide.

# For help in hygiene can also have a place, a bidet installed in the main entrance.

# Install grab bars in the area. Lodging arm bars to offer the best support, as well as the comments on both sides of the toilet, because the arm chair.

# For better access to a wheelchair, so that at least 18 cm of free space in front of the toilet, and 42 cm square on the page.

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