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A Walk-In shower enclosure without a shower tray works well, providing free access or a version with a shower tray mounted flush with the floor in a bathroom for a disabled people.
Arranging a bathroom for disabled people requires maintaining certain standards to ensure safety and convenience of use. Ceramics with fixed heights, special handrails and ladders should be used. The room should be sufficiently large and without thresholds, stairs or hills that could hinder wheelchair users. How to design and arrange a bathroom step by step for a disabled people?
Bathroom for the disabled should be equipped with a number of amenities that allows you to move in a wheelchair, transfer to a special seat, and also increase the user's safety with reduced mobility.
First of all, this type of bathroom should be more accessible and larger than the standard one. This means that you should abandon the entrance threshold and use a wider door. The entire space should be large enough. The manoeuvring area for the wheelchair should not be less than 150x150 cm. There should be no platforms or steps in the room. The Walk-In shower enclosure is the best for a bathing position, providing free access.
Comfort above all
In a bathroom adapted for the disabled people, ceramics must be at the right height. For a washbasin, the recommended height of the countertop (top edge of the basin) is a maximum of 80 cm from the floor. The best way is to install a flat and wide washbasin, properly profiled so that you can comfortably rest your elbows on the countertop.
Toilet in the bathroom for the disabled people should be higher than the standard one. Suggested height is 48 cm from the floor. To allow a disabled people lateral transfer from the wheelchair to the toilet bowl, its length should be 70 cm. In addition, there should be two special handrails around the sanitary facilities, including at least one hinged.
Special ladders, handles and handrails in the bathroom for the disabled people significantly facilitate movement. Their selection depends on the shape of the bathroom and the arrangement of the washbasin and toilet bowl. Tilting or fixed handrails should be installed. Use two handrails each at the washbasin (50 or 60 cm long) and two at the toilet bowl (at least one tilting, at least 70 cm long).
Bathroom faucets should be equipped with special medical handles, and the shower enclosure with a handle or ladder on the arm. A folding bath chair can be used inside the shower cubicle. In addition, the bathroom should be equipped with a tilting mirror, preferably with adjustable tilt angle, suited to the person sitting in a wheelchair.
Additional equipment
The Walk-In shower enclosure, the so-called open shower enclosure, works well in this case, with no moving parts or doors. The bathing area of the Walk-In shower enclosure can be limited with the help of a wall on one side only or you can use shower curtains that can be moved away comfortably. Bathroom shower trays can prevent a wheelchair user from getting into the shower enclosure if their installation is not properly prepared. The Walk-In shower enclosure equipped with a special folding shower chair allows you to conveniently enter inside and then change from the stroller to the seat.
Shower enclosure
In the shower enclosure for a disabled people, an additional handset placed on the bar and of course the aforementioned ladder or handle should be used. In addition, a bathroom for the disabled people should be equipped with amenities that increase the safety of everyday use. In many cases, anti-slip mats and batteries as well as batteries with anti-scald system (with the possibility of accurate automatic setting of the water temperature) can be checked. Many modern solutions dedicated to people with limited mobility are available in fittings and bathroom ceramics stores. Sanplast's offer also includes bathroom products adapted to the needs of the elderly and the disabled persons. Due to the high availability of various equipment, you can design and arrange a bathroom that makes life easier for a person with reduced mobility and for their caregivers.
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