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eulero83 -> RE: would this reduce value of a neighbors house? (8/13/2013 11:48:27 AM)
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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1
That ramp is way too long as a necessity in the UK. Overkill.
And if you are in a wheelchair or scooter, you don't need those handrails either.
That could easily be chopped in half and still be very practical.
Our ambulance and taxi ramps for disabled are around 30 degrees - quite steep.
Same for a lot of our public buildings too - just a short slope so you don't have to negotiate a step or two.
Our front door step is only about 4" tall (10cm) and even a very short board of only 1ft (30cm) is more than enough to facilitate getting a wheelchair or scooter in and out of the front door.
As for that monstrosity posted by pahunk, it's waay too big and looks F*ugly to me.
If I was looking for a house, even one adapted for disabled people, I would drive right past this one.
My OH took one look at it and spewed some obscenities I'd rather not repeat.
Lets just say she didn't like the look of it.
Sorry but what qualify you to judge if something is "not nice enough" to be built in sombady elses property? What are your objective criteria to set the bar? Are you in the urbanistic commission of your city?
I don't know what regulation are in the UK, but as the picture I posted was by the catalog of a UK factory that produces and sells them I'd say you are not so picky up there in terms of esthetics, too.
Now what I'm going to say is part of my job so daspite your personal experience if you don't have a degree in architecture or civil engenieering your opinion (and I'm sure you'll have one against) is worth nothing, when building any kind of infrastructure it must be usable and safe for any person that will have access to it without any help by others. When building a wheelchair ramp inclination must be proportionate to the difference in level becuse there is no linear proportion in how tiring would be the climb and over a certain lenght (in italy it's 10m) some flat resting areas must be used, so 10cm step are not simillar to 40-50cm a good criterium on new bulding is to use an inclination of 8% that will fit every linear distance (and this is what italian law imposes), if not possible this chart can be used:
[image]http://www.progettarepertutti.org/normativa/236_89/pendenza%20rampe.jpg[/image]
as you can see 40cm would require at least 3.5m, 50cm gap 4.8m lenght and 60cm gap 6m lenght.
This doesn't means that someone in a wheelchair will not be able to climb harder ramps, as your personal experiece demostrate, but that will be difficoult or too tiring to be used many times a day for some and some other would not be independant that's the whole point in the ramp.
About the parapet hight, yes a person on wheelchair would have no issue with one high the half of that, but belive it or not the
parapet height is set to protect walking persons so the height remains the one for stairs (1m in italy).
This can be derogated if tecnical reason make impossible to reach this standards, so in a taxi or ambulance, (where the disabled person by the way can be helped by the driver and has not to do it many times a day) dimension are limited by the ones of the vehicle because can't be otherwise.
About reducing a nearby property value, you just can't impose to others your personal tastes becuase it annoys you seeng concrete and steel were you would have liked more wood and bricks, so go and sue anyone that coltivates a vegetable garden becuse potential buyers of your property may not like to see dirth instead of lawn.
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