Unique & Custom Applications

The side deck door is also a candidate for wheelchair access on this home. There is another wheelchair-ramp installation on the Front Door which we have featured in this catagory. Same project number, but titled Ramp #1.

As you can see in the photos, this opening also has a wood-screen door that will need to…

…clear the ramp. Another little challenge comes in the form of the Persian throw rug.

This limits what we can add to the bottom of the door for reaching and sealing up…

…against whatever threshold type surface we incorporate into the design of the ramp assembly.

This translates into the fact that the threshold portion of the ramp assembly will need…

…to be higher to reach the bottom of the door, which in turn means that the span of the ramp will need to grow…

…in order to maintain the “rise-to-distance” ratio, or the “slope” of the ramp, on both the interior, as well as the…

…exterior. These projects require more than being good at building wheelchair ramps. It also requires that the…

…bottom of the door is trimmed and/or augmented for a proper weatherstripping seal.