Hyndburn Homes - shower install
 

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The therapists are very nice, you will be asked about your mobility and assessed for getting in and out of the bath.

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They wont put a shower over a bath for safety reasons Margart, I presume your in an upstairs flat as the ground floor are all fitted with showers as standard

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Oh well :(- will have the bath out and the shower stall in, if that is what it takes to get one.
(I will just find it harder to wash my venetian blinds ;))

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No disrespect margaret, I wouldnt dare, but the council are taking your age into consideration, the generalise, and the view is that most older tenants will have no use for the bath after a certain time, so they change to a walk in shower, otherwise, if they put a bath in, and then it turns out a few years from now that you cant use it, they will be forced to change again, same with electrical points, they go in any property at disabled hieght now, to save having to adapt for the disabled later.

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I dread to think what the answer is, BUT, which part of your anatomy is your venetian blinds ?;)

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margaret there is a 12month waitin list to see your area occupational therapist;they came to to watch me get in and out the bath ; she said i needed a walk in shower ; that was in jan and im still waitin for hyndburn house to come and put one in ;

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sorry read that wrong ;

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they will probably make you a wet room,if this is the case they are brilliant me mum had one done earlier this year,the total room floor is non slip

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Unfortunately - 'wet rooms not supplied' - is what they said last July
The photo of the shower stall they showed me looked rather small
I think I will be getting sore elbows

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They have just done my mates and hers is a wet room.

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Great news - thanks Bernie - sounds like they have had a policy change since I asked last summer

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Looking that way a lot have them in now

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not sure exactly how they fund it in hyndburn but in blackburn with darwen it is done through a disabled facility grant which is means tested... they would never agree to a shower over bath as the disability that requires a shower would not allow you to be able to manage a bath anymore... They are quite strict on their criteria but I cannot say for certain exactly what that criteria is..

hope it goes well, but there can still be a very long wait for the alteration to be done after the decision, but that is usually down to how much money is in the disabled adaptation pot and what priority they put on the work being done.

In blackburn the priorities are being reviewed at the moment.

but as a guidline

P1 - access to toilet
P2 - access to bathing
P3 - access to property

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would have thought showers were preferable to bathtubs just for the water and energy savings, and forget about those hand-held shower heads on a tube you get in French hotels , can't remember the last time I had a soak , (hot-tubs don't count they are designed for communal relaxation ) ;)