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BevVan what are you doing?
What are you doing? I'm trying to make a point here.
And what point is that besides burning good money.?
Exactly right. We've got too many people we meet who have practically just burnt their
money up because when they think about accessibility they kind of assume they've got to gut the
bathroom, add on an addition, all this crazy expensive stuff when there really are less
expensive options that are really within range.
There sure are.
Yeah, what a great point huh?
It is a good point, but I think you're getting a little close on that one.
Hey, I'm here today with a mom, a young lady who has a disability. This is a family that
has recently used our services and they were willing to share their story with you.
Hi, um several months ago we got the opportunity to move into a house that's got a lot of character,
and it's older and there are very thick walls and it was uncertain what was behind walls.
And Matties old shower chair would not fit into the bathtub. And I called BevVan and
said we're looking at this house. It's been offered to us by people who care about Matty,
but I'm not certain that we can make it work. Because of the bathroom. So BevVan came out
with her rulers and she went everywhere in this house. To the basement and looked at
pipes and thicknesses of walls, and all kinds of things that I didn't even know existed.
And was able to come up with an option for us that I had never heard of, had no idea
how it was going to work, and it was quite wonderful because it required nothing from
the landlord, who had already been more than generous, we didn't have to put in a new shower.
We could use just what was right here, and it actually is a lot more versatile than anything
we had used before. For one thing Matty's old shower chair was lower and this one is
higher and so it puts me at a position where I can just very easily do everything that
we need to do in the bathtub, which is a bit more than most people would do in the bathtub.Then
when we leave the bathroom. We can take her to an area of the house where all of her things
are and in the shower chair, and it's the perfect height and moves easily enough that
it's actually the easiest piece of equipment to move that we've got.
That's exciting.
It is. It really is! And so things still little things like cutting Matty's fingernails. You
can cut them on one side and flip the chair around and cut them on the other side without
bending her arm off. Matty has a lot of hair and it takes a long time for those of us that
are hair challenged to fix it. And I can do that in the shower chair and it just makes
life just lots easier. We just put a huge towel on the floor and what little water drips,
drips on the towel and wer'e good. It's just amazing. Our biggest issue is, we live in
a house with no closets, and so where do you put this piece of equipment. The pieces are
actually very light and we just rearrange things in the next room and found a place
to put it.
Sounds great.
It is.
Well I'm glad you called me and I really appreciate the trust you have in us, because like you
said you'd never seen it before. It was not anything you'd ever heard of, but I'm really
glad it solved the problem.
It did solve the problem.
Good deal.
Alright so that was actually a really good example of how a person avoided just kind
of burning money up by choosing equipment over expensive structural remodeling. Great
idea, huh.
Wonderful idea.
So share the news and share the video. Accessibility remodeling does not have to be expensive and
really there is absolutely nothing sillier than burning money.