Disabled facilities grant plans help

lemontart

also tv can easily be put on a wall and raised so all can see,

shopaholic1373

Cyclamen wrote: »

I use a wheelchair/walker/stick and the bathroom door was turned into a sliding door with a false wall 6 inches into room so door could slide in without making corridor any narrower. The shower tiles are on this false wall it takes up a lot less room than an opening doors footprint.

Really is worth looking at sliding doors.. they're easier to operate in a chair as well as you dont have to shuffle back an dforth to open them.

How many bedrooms do you have? Can you turn one of the bedrooms into an upstairs living area, homework, telly space and have the whole space living room downstairs as a bedroom? It's not ideal but kids could coem in an dwatch telly with Dad on bed an dolder ones can bring bean bags or chairs.

Would a drop down table in kitchen give you family eating space?

Could any extension be made to kitchen for cooking/diner?

Is there anyway of upgrading hubbies wheelchair to one with a smaller turning radius for indoors that still supports him sufficiently.. there are wheelchair grant options on turn2us grants checker?

how much does a through floor lift cost? That way you coud adapt the upstairs bathroom and everyone use it.. if you still want a bath for kids you can buy lifesize inflatable ones that empty down the wetroom plug..

will try and answer some of questions 3 bed roomed house fully occupied by family of 5 so we don't have any spare space upstairs,so no space for through floor lift husband medical condition mean he couldn't have one anyway nor stair lift .No space to put living room upstairs either.Watching telly with dad turns his bedroom in to front room.Kitchen is funny shape only place to put on is behind door,Extension to kitchen/dinner inures extra cost (we have suggested extension across back of house)defiantly looking into the sliding doors

GlasweJen

I'm really not seeing much of what you describe as being big problems.

We don't actually have a door from the hall to our living room, we also don't have a dining room or a table (well we own a table but it's in pieces in the spare room. We don't have a bath - everyone just uses the wet room shower. Our kitchen isn't lowered because we can't afford that much work and I can't cook anyway. I could probably turn a wheelchair in it at a push.

We sleep apart as I use a Bi-pap at night, my bedroom is the spare room and that's also OHs study (he works from home sometimes). Our living room has a sofa bed as a setee because I need over night care and OH can't manage it all the time plus his career and looking after the house.

I use the wheelchair all the time and eat from a clip on tray, OH uses an ikea tray as do any visitors.

I can get the chair into the master bedroom and reverse back out but can't turn it in there as the bed and furnishings get in the way. Thinking about it I can only fully access 3/5 rooms in my own home.

shopaholic1373

GlasweJen wrote: »

I'm really not seeing much of what you describe as being big problems.

We don't actually have a door from the hall to our living room, we also don't have a dining room or a table (well we own a table but it's in pieces in the spare room. We don't have a bath - everyone just uses the wet room shower. Our kitchen isn't lowered because we can't afford that much work and I can't cook anyway. I could probably turn a wheelchair in it at a push.

We sleep apart as I use a Bi-pap at night, my bedroom is the spare room and that's also OHs study (he works from home sometimes). Our living room has a sofa bed as a setee because I need over night care and OH can't manage it all the time plus his career and looking after the house.
too quote Dfg if for

I use the wheelchair all the time and eat from a clip on tray, OH uses an ikea tray as do any visitors.

I can get the chair into the master bedroom and reverse back out but can't turn it in there as the bed and furnishings get in the way. Thinking about it I can only fully access 3/5 rooms in my own home.

To quote what DFG is for government guide.
to make it easier to access living room
to improve access to kitchen,bedroom,and bathroom
to improve access and movement around the home to enable disabled person to care for another person who lives in property e.g. children.
As I said current plans don't do that they give him 2 rooms while taking 2 away,so 2/6
the turning circle and there size are council stipulations.

GlasweJen

Maybe it's because we live in a council area that refused to rehouse me as a paraplegic living on the 5th floor of a block of flats with a dodgy lift but really I think you need to set your sights lower or start saving to add money to the grant. £26000 isn't a small amount so it's not as if the council are scrimping. As your husband can't access upstairs at all it sounds like you want the council to fund a huge extension to fit a dining room, expand a kitchen and fit a bedroom and wetroom?

I know being disabled isn't cheap but there has to be a line and it looks like the council have drawn their line at £26K, in your position it looks like it's take it or leave it. Like I said nothing you're writing about is a huge issue and the council aren't going to fund a big extension so that you can fit a 2 and 3 seated sofa, a wheelchair, a TV and a table into your living room.

lemontart

bottom line is money for such is in short supply, they are offering to make some expensive changes, whilst not perfect it is lot more than a lot can afford or get. so compromises and work arounds have to be made. I have been waiting for nigh on 3 years for shower. I now rely on strip washes as simply cannot get in and out of bath, afford to get it done myself. Want to sell up and move to single level but again stuck as house needs work

shopaholic1373

wow this thread has made me realize,that there are so many people out there worst off than us I am quite shocked.
No I don't want huge extension just one that fits wet room and bedroom.Then I wouldn't need kitchen extending i would still have lounge/dinner.Council haven't costed in the moving kitchen wall and moving boiler in £26,000 that would be needed and we would be left with 3 base units in the kitchen as space between opposite units would be smaller than 1.2m so would lose 4 base units(council rules)
This could of all been done 3 years ago (when council turned down very similar plans) and forced us to move to unsuitable property and then to move again maybe why I am trying to making sure this is done properly,as this has cost my husband.family and I so much already.