One of the problems with outdoor spot lights is that you are often limited in where you can direct the light because either the mounting won't swivel to where you need it, or you have to avoid pointing upward because water will get into the 120volt socket.Canlet has come out with the greatest lit...
Although we tend to associate the term accessibility with wheelchairs, in reality it is much larger than that. Accessibility can relate to people who are extremely short or extremely tall, to very young people or very old people who have trouble holding on to things, or seeing things -- anyone w...
Beth has a kid in a wheel chair and wants to know how to lay down a floating floor across two rooms without a bump in the doorway.Good question Beth, because floating floors are designed to shift a bit with expansion and contraction. The first photo above shows the official transition piece that...
Residential elevators were once only dreamed of for very large houses and very rich people. But the baby boomers are changing that in that many wish to remain in their multi-floor houses long after climbing all those stairs has become quite a pain, if not impossible. Hence the development of a ...
Jan needed to do some serious renovations at her mother-in-law's house because the she had a stroke and was suddenly less mobile than she was before. So the bedroom was moved to the main floor and a new bathroom was built to go with it.She put Pergo floating hardwood floors right through from th...
Accessibility is all about ease of movement about the house -- for wheelchairs, for walkers, even for people who simply have less mobility or less finger and hand dexterity.Sliding pocket doors are much easier to maneuver around than swinging doors. In this installation, an extra wide door was c...
Light switches are not installed with smaller people in mind, even in the kids bedroom. So some creative people in Montreal came up with an invention called Kid Switch. Simply replace the standard face plate with the kid switch plate, and now you can operate the switch at the normal height, or ...
One of our viewers needs to arrange for wheelchair access to the front door, which is six feet off the ground, and he is looking for some guidelines.
Wheelchair ramps must have rails close to the surface of the ramp to keep the wheels from running off the ramp, rails at the top of the wheel heig...
For a long time it has been a dream to have dog and even cat doors that would allow the pets in and out on their own without compromising the house itself in a cold snow filled climate.
When a pet door doesn't work in our climate, the snow can fill the living room. All efforts seemed to fail to ...
Here is a brilliant idea. Many people who have difficulty sitting down and getting up, as well as those who have the problem of getting in and out of wheelchairs have always had to install rather unstable special chairs on top of their toilets. Here is a toilet riser and a soil stack extension th...
