Accessibility

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Q: Single Family Home, or multi-family / mixed use residence/multiple "service" (apartment present)? USA? What Electr...

Most states have an accessibility standards handbook. Many of them have one on-line, but even if your state does not,...

Retrofit Your Home for Accessibility

Here is a room-by-room checklist of steps you can take if someone in your family is impacted by a lasting injury, dis...

Handicapped accessibility

By ADA regulations, it depends upon the direction the wheelchair is approaching the switch. If the switch is accesse...

ADDING NEW STAIRS FOR ACCESSIBILITY TO SPACE IN ATTIC

WE ARE RENOVATING AN OLD FARMHOUSE WHICH HAS A GOOD BIT OF SPACE IN THE ATTIC THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO ACCESS. HOW DO W...

total cooling of garage including insulation, efficiency & accessibility

I would like to know the best and most cost efficient way to cool my 400 sq. ft garage in sunny Florida. Could you...

Making the Home Handicapped Accessible

Bob tours the Roxbury project with its architect, Fernando Domenech, who explains the difference between adaptabilit...

Designing for the Disabled

Bob tours the Roxbury project with its architect, Fernando Domenech, who explains the difference between adaptability...

Selling to Seniors: How to Win Over Older Home Buyers

In the past, retirees have fled south, eschewing the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest in favor of sunnier, more b...

Bob Vila Radio: Universal Design

You may not be one of the rising wave of aging baby boomers, but if you’re building or renovating your house, the pri...

10 Tools for Your Apartment That You Never Thought You'd Need

While renters don't need to worry things like the furnace or lawn, they are not safe from all maintenance woes. Here ...

8 Organizers You Need for Everyday Clutter

Organizing your life can feel like a constant battle. Calm the chaos with these 8 neat and nifty storage ideas. Each ...

Shower Stall and Drywall

Plumbers begin to install a wheelchair-accessible shower stall, and drywall starts going up. Also, Bob takes a field ...

Executive Mansion

In Richmond, Virginia, the oldest continuously occupied governor's mansion in America is in need of serious repairs, ...

Accessible Home

The accessible home project follows an urban renewal story, involving grass-roots activism and affordable housing.

Steps leading to the front porch

I have a cobblestone walkway that leads to a set of stairs and then to my front porch. The inclice has always seemed...

Renovating a bathroom for access

My family is planning a renovation of myparents' bathroom to increase my father'saccessibility, due to dx of Alzheime...

Wheelchair Accessible

We are planning on buying a new wheelchair accessible 2 section manufactured home and moving it onto farm property. ...

in wall a/c

** need advice on installing a/c in wall. **You probably meant to post this is the Appliance forum rather than the Ac...

porch level with indoor floor?

I've seen as much as 20 inches of snow on the Cape...and not all that many years ago.If your porch is entirely roofed...

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