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Saving
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Whether you are a home
builder or a home owner, accessible homes are good business,
good planning and good for the long term health of the United
States.
Why?
- Homebuilders today have time to redesign their floor
plans.
- Those new floor plans can easily include attractive
accessible features.
- For anyone renovating or buying a home, those accessible
features are an insurance policy.
- And those built-in features save this country billions of
dollars in emergency renovation costs due to age, accident
or disability.
- Those features allow you or your loves ones to live at
home.
Given a disability or
accident, the lack of just one item in our Nation’s housing
stock, an accessible bathroom, can be the difference between
living at home and living in a health care facility.
For home builders, now is the time to draw new plans. For
anyone renovating or buying a home, now is the time to ask for
accessible features.
A first step is familiarizing yourself with an
accessible home's various fixtures and their location
details. They are in The Right Space. Click Contents to see a detailed list.
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Three Important Design
Features
Create a Visitable Home by adding these three assets
to your home design.
- Zero Step Entrance – easy entry for a baby stroller or
a wheelchair.
- *Wide Enough Doors – the right space in front of each door
allows wheelchair access into any room and makes moving
furniture easier.
- An Accessible Bathroom – you are able to use your home
in an emergency. An accessible bathroom also makes for a
friendly home when a disabled person visits.
*An often overlooked detail is, inside or outside a home, the minimum landing
space in front of a doorway depends on the approach direction.
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An Accessible Bathroom
Like most of the drawings in The Right Space, the
bathroom below is an easy-to-understand isometric drawing. Note
the different floor spaces that allow you to use each fixture.
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The Right Space
has over 300 detailed drawings. They accompany and visually
explain everything that's in the Contents below.
All the width, depth, and height details in the book come from
the ADA Guidelines issued by the United States Access Board.
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- INTRODUCTION – page 7
- GLOSSARY AND NOTES – page 8
- CLEAR FLOOR SPACE
- CROSS SLOPE
- KNEE AND TOE SPACE
- RAMP...more
- PRIMARY FLOOR SPACES – page 11
- WIDTH, DEPTH, AND SLOPE
- WHEELCHAIR CLEAR FLOOR SPACE
- RUNNING SLOPE
- CROSS SLOPE
- VERTICAL CHANGE IN LEVEL
- BEVELED CHANGE IN LEVEL
- FLOOR TILE, CARPET, DECK AND GRATE SPACING
- TURNING – page 29
- TURNING SPACES
- 90 DEGREE TURN – through doorway
- ASSOCIATED 90 DEGREE TURNS – two examples
- CIRCULAR TURNING SPACE
- T – SHAPED TURNING SPACE
- ELLIPTICAL TURNING SPACE
- TURNING NOTES
- DOORS AND PASSAGEWAYS – page 41
- HINGED DOOR - Typical Guidelines
- DOUBLE DOORS
- POCKET DOOR AND FOLDING DOOR
- PASSAGEWAY WIDTH
- DOORWAY AND PASSAGEWAY NOTES
- ENTRANCE LANDINGS – page 49
- ACCESSIBLE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
- FRONT APPROACH - PUSH SIDE LANDING
- FRONT APPROACH - PULL SIDE LANDING
- LATCH APPROACH - PUSH SIDE LANDING
- LATCH APPROACH - PULL SIDE LANDING
- HINGE APPROACH - PUSH SIDE LANDING
- HINGE APPROACH - PULL SIDE LANDINGS
- LANDINGS AND RAMPS – page 59
- LANDING - RAMP - LANDING
- LANDING - Typical Guidelines, Where Ramps Change
Direction
- RAMP IN NEW CONSTRUCTION - Typical Guidelines, Running
Slope, Cross Slope, Maximum Rise, Accessible Design
Considerations
- RAMP IN EXISTING CONSTRUCTION - Exception One, Design
Considerations
- RAMP IN EXISTING CONSTRUCTION - Exception Two, Design
Considerations
- REACH, APPROACH, AND EGRESS - page 73
- REACH AND APPROACH DIRECTION
- REACH AND OBSTRUCTIONS
- FORWARD APPROACH - Unobstructed High Forward Reach, Low
Forward Reach
- FORWARD APPROACH - Obstructed High Forward Reach
- PARALLEL APPROACH - Unobstructed Parallel Reach, High
Parallel Reach, Low Parallel Reach, Obstructed High
Parallel Reach
- HIGH AND LOW REACH AND VIEW
- EGRESS
- INTERIOR LANDINGS - page 87
- ACCESSIBLE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
- FRONT APPROACH - PUSH SIDE LANDING
- FRONT APPROACH - PULL SIDE LANDING
- LATCH APPROACH - PUSH SIDE LANDING
- LATCH APPROACH - PULL SIDE LANDING
- HINGE APPROACH - PUSH SIDE LANDING
- HINGE APPROACH - PULL SIDE LANDINGS
- OVERLAPPING LANDINGS - Where Doors Swing Away From Each
Other, Where Doors Swing in the Same Direction
- PASSAGEWAY LANDINGS - Forward Approach and Parallel
Approach
- POCKET DOOR LANDINGS - Front Approach, Latch Approach,
Pocket Approach
- HALLWAYS
- LANDING NOTES
- RESIDENTIAL BATHROOMS - page 105
- TYPICAL BATHROOM - Access Problems
- BATHROOM ONE - Fixing Access Problems
- BATHROOM TWO - Roll-in Shower without Seat, Lavatory,
and Water Closet. What is a Rough-in Dimension?
- BATHROOM THREE - Roll-in Shower with Seat, Lavatory,
and Water Closet
- BATHROOM FOUR - Alternate Shower with Seat, Lavatory,
and Water Closet
- BATHROOM NOTES
- WATER CLOSET / TOILET - page 117
- WATER CLOSET - Accessible Design Considerations,
Typical Guidelines, Rough-in Considerations
- LAVATORY NEXT TO A WATER CLOSET - Minimum Distance
- FIXTURE NEXT TO A WATER CLOSET
- WATER CLOSET HARD EDGES - Front Edge, Seat Side Edge
- OVERLAPPING SPACES
- LAVATORY / SINK - page 129
- LAVATORY - Accessible Design Considerations, Typical
Guidelines
- KNEE AND TOE SPACE - Typical Guidelines
- LAVATORY IN AN ALCOVE
- LAVATORY NEXT TO A WATER CLOSET - Minimum Distance
- FIXTURE NEXT TO A WATER CLOSET
- LAVATORY NEXT TO A BATHING FIXTURE - Bathtub, Roll-in
Shower without Seat, Bathing Fixture with
- Seat, Transfer Shower, Alternate Shower with Seat
- MANEUVERING IN AND MANEUVERING OUT
- OVERLAPPING SPACES
- BATHROOM CABINET, COUNTERTOP AND SINK - page 143
- BATHROOM SINK WITH FORWARD APPROACH - Typical
Guidelines
- BATHROOM SIZE
- WATER CLOSET HARD EDGES - Front Edge and Seat Side Edge
- FIXTURE NEXT TO A WATER CLOSET
- CABINET, COUNTERTOP, AND TURNING SPACE
- CABINET AND COUNTERTOP NEXT TO A BATHING FIXTURE -
Bathtub, Roll-in Shower without Seat, Bathing Fixture
with Seat, Transfer Shower, Alternate Shower with Seat
- CABINET, COUNTERTOP, AND OVERALL BATHROOM SIZE
- BATHTUB - page 159
- BATHTUB - Accessible Design Considerations, Typical
Guidelines, Bathing Fixture Width, Rough-in
Considerations, Bathing Fixture Depth, Rough-in
Considerations
- BATHTUB WITH PERMANENT SEAT - Accessible Design
Considerations, Typical Guidelines, Bathroom Size,
Rough-in Considerations
- ROLL-IN SHOWER - page 175
- ROLL-IN SHOWER WITHOUT SEAT - Accessible Design
Considerations, Typical Guidelines, Bathroom Size,
Rough-in Considerations
- ROLL-IN SHOWER WITH SEAT - Accessible Design
Considerations, Typical Guidelines, Bathroom Size,
Rough-in Considerations
- TRANSFER SHOWER and ALTERNATE SHOWER - page 189
- TRANSFER SHOWER - Accessible Design Considerations,
Typical Guidelines, Bathroom Size, Rough-in
Considerations
- ALTERNATE SHOWER WITH SEAT (end wall controls) -
Accessible Design Considerations, Typical Guidelines,
Fixture Location, Rough-in Considerations
- ALTERNATE SHOWER WITH SEAT (back wall controls) -
Accessible Design Considerations, Typical Guidelines,
Fixture Location, Rough-in Considerations
- SEAT WALL - Entry Side and Adjacent Side Setbacks
- ADA COMPLIANT BATHING SEAT - Planning and Availability
- KITCHEN - page 211
- KITCHEN - Accessible Design Considerations
- CABINET STRUCTURE - Toe Kick Height, Cabinet and
Countertop Height, Work Surface and Sink Fixtures
- APPROACH CLEAR FLOOR SPACE
- HIGH AND LOW REACH
- U - SHAPED KITCHEN
- PASS THROUGH KITCHEN
- APPROACH EXAMPLES - Refrigerator-Freezer and Cooktop,
Dishwasher, Sink, Work Surface, Range, Built-in Oven
- FIXTURE HEIGHT AND LOCATION
- MANEUVERING INSIDE A KITCHEN
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