Bathroom Remodeling
Accessible and aging-in-place bathrooms in Lancaster and Chester County, PA
A bathroom built for the long run is a better bathroom for everyone who uses it. A shower you walk into with no curb, a bench, a hand shower, a door wide enough for a walker, grab bars that read as towel bars, a toilet at a height that does not hurt, floors that do not get slick, and light you can see by. None of it has to look like a hospital, and in our bathrooms it does not.
What Goes Into an Accessible Bath
- A curbless shower with a linear drain, a fold-down or built-in bench, a hand shower on a slide bar, and a thermostatic valve that cannot scald.
- Blocking in the walls at the shower, the toilet, and the tub, so grab bars can go on now or in ten years without opening the wall.
- A 36-inch door, pocket or out-swinging, and a turning radius inside where the room allows it.
- A comfort-height toilet, a vanity with knee space or one that a wheelchair can approach, lever faucets.
- A walk-in tub where a bath matters more than a shower, with the door, the seat, and the fast drain that make them work.
- Slip-resistant tile, a floor on one level with no threshold at the door, and a heated floor if it is wanted.
- Lighting on both sides of the mirror, a night light, a lighted switch at the door.
Part of the Design
The difference between an accessible bathroom and a bathroom with grab bars screwed to the tile is planning. The bars become part of the tile layout, the bench is built into the pan, the hand shower is the second head everyone wanted anyway, and the wide door is just a nicer door. The Malvern baths below have curbless entries and heated towel rails that happen to be at hand height, and nothing about them looks like a hospital.
For a Parent, or for Later
Some of these bathrooms are for a parent moving in, and some are for owners who plan to stay in the house for the long run. Either way we ask the practical questions early: who uses the room, what help they need now, what they might need later, and we build so the next change is a small one.
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Questions We Get
Do grab bars have to look institutional?
No. Bars come in the same finishes as the faucets, and a well-placed bar reads as a towel bar. The key is blocking in the wall so they can be mounted anywhere, which we put in every bathroom we build whether or not bars go on now.
How wide should the door be?
Thirty-six inches clears a walker and most wheelchairs. A pocket door is often the easiest way to get there in a small bath.
Can a curbless shower keep water in?
Yes, with the floor sloped properly to a linear drain and a glass panel or a half wall where the spray goes. It is a design question we solve on paper.
Process
How We Work
- We visit, measure, and talk through the scope before anything is priced.
- You get a written proposal, and we build to it.
- Where the work needs a permit, we walk you through it every step: the application, the drawings the township asks for, and the inspections.
- We are on site from the first day to the last, and the house stays clean while we work.
- We walk the finished job with you, fix anything on the list, and clean up.
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Where We Work
Based in Christiana, we work across Lancaster County and Chester County.
Lancaster County
- Christiana
- Gap
- Quarryville
- Strasburg
- Lancaster
Chester County
- Parkesburg
- Coatesville
- West Chester
- Kennett Square
- Downingtown
- Malvern
- Chester Springs
- Frazer
Dalton remodeled our primary bathroom and did a wonderful job. All work was performed neatly and professionally.
— Julie EvansPrimary bathroom remodel5 stars on Google
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