We build wheelchair ramps, fit handrails and grab rails, and make the small changes that let someone stay safely in their own home. Most of our work comes through occupational therapists and home care providers and is built to the OT’s scope, and we also work directly for families.
These are the two jobs we are asked for most. Steps, door hardware and bathroom changes often come with them.
Timber ramps with landings and handrails, built to the gradient and widths in the OT’s scope. We replace cracked or awkward concrete ramps with timber, and build ramps with a turn where the height is too much for one straight run.
Handrails along paths, steps and ramps, and grab rails in showers and beside toilets, fixed into studs, blocking or masonry so they take a person’s full weight. We fit fold-up grab rails, vertical rails and shower rails to the assessment.
Old concrete ramps crack, settle or sit at the wrong angle. We break them out and build timber in their place, set to fit around things like a hot water service.
Uneven or tall steps are a fall waiting to happen. We rebuild them with lower, even risers and a top step level with the door.
A rail screwed only into plasterboard will pull out. We refix or replace it into the structure behind.
When a bathroom set up for disability is no longer needed, we take the rails and fittings out, make good the tiles and floor, and turn it back into an ordinary ensuite.
The OT’s report or the home care provider’s work order, or just tell us what is needed.
Heights, widths, the ground and where the rails will fix.
Set out the way your funder or provider needs it.
Built to the scope, with the person who will use it in mind.
A concrete ramp broken out and replaced with a timber ramp, its angle changed to leave room around the hot water service. 2021.
For a home care provider: the screen door and an old rail removed, and four new steps built at even 135 mm risers, with the top step level with the front door. 2021.
For a home care provider: new stainless steel grab rails in the shower and beside the toilet, matched to the existing ones, and the old rails taken away. 2021.
A handrail in the shower and safety hinges on the bathroom door, fitted to an occupational therapist’s assessment. 2019.
An 800 mm fold-up stainless grab rail fitted, the existing shower rail bolts tightened into the concrete, and two corner shelves added. 2022.
An ensuite converted back from a disability bathroom: rails and fittings removed, tile holes sealed, new vinyl, the toilet refitted and a new glass panel. 2024.
A modification often comes with other work around the house.
Send us the OT’s scope or tell us what is needed, and we will come and measure up and give you a free estimate.
