I need to build, or buy if it makes sense, a [temporary] wheelchair ramp for my MIL's vacation to a friends house. We haven't decided where it is going yet, but there are 2 options:
- The front door, which involves going up 1 "normal" sized step, then over the threshold for the door. There is about 3 feet of a landing - it is enough that there is a chair there to sit, but not enough space that a wheelchair could turn around in. I could not find a picture of this, but will try to. The big advantage here is that the door is WIDE. I think it is legitimately 45 inches wide. Even if that is my overestimating it, it is at LEAST 40 inches, it required a custom made door to replace it.
- The back door, through the garage. The step up for this door is actually inside the house - see the picture below, not the actual entry way but the layout looks identical. The big advantage here is that we don't have to worry about the threshold for the doorway, because it would be underneath the ramp anyways. The big negative is that you would have to put it in place and remove it everytime you want to use it - probably not a big deal.
Then we'll also need to do a small ramp over a threshold to get from the house onto the deck, but I think that we can figure that out without much issue - it is only 6 inches wide and 2 inches total difference in height.
So... Any thoughts as to which direction we should go with this? I should note, she'll probably be in a scooter rather than a wheelchair - small wheels.
