wheelchair ramps for home

A wheelchair ramp (from French "pente douce" - gentle slope) is an inclined sloping ground replacing a staircase and used to get to the next level. Today wheelchair ramps are made at entrance to the various buildings. In some cases they can replace a staircase both inside the buildings and outside. Wheelchair ramps are available in places often visited by handicapped people.

If there is no wheelchair ramp at the building entrance, portable modern wheelchair ramps should be constructed. Such constructions are very helpful and in some places they are the only chance for a handicapped person using the wheelchair to enter the building. Ramps built for wheelchairs can be right-angled and curved. As a rule, these constructions are made of light and high strength duralumin featuring special nonslip coat. These constructions are easy to use and compact. Wheelchair ramps will help handicapped people to go downstairs quickly or climb a curb, handle steps or a slope.

Wheelchair ramps are badly needed at any facility of the social infrastructure, residential and commercial property. Such type of constructions has long become a common standard used in erection of buildings and constructions all over the world.

The wheelchair ramps for home always consists of three parts:

- a horizontal platform at the beginning of the ramp;

- a sloping surface of the wheelchair ramp;

- a horizontal platform at the end of the ramp.

The figure 1 represents the scheme of the wheelchair ramp.

Figure 1. Wheelchair ramps for home

In my manual I will try to combine fully disembodied data from various sources and fill a gap both in theory and practice of wheelchair ramps design for homes and other buildings.

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