| Bathroom remodeling ranks up there with kitchen | | | | corners, hard edges, and scalding hot water. This can |
| remodeling in the U.S. | | | | make everyone using them safe. |
| I thought when I thought I should remodel my | | | | Bathrooms should include grab bars that are well set |
| bathroom that a simple spruce up would do costing | | | | into the walls for people to balance themselves. They |
| maybe tops $1000. I had a new toliet and vanity. I | | | | should be roomy enough to accomodate a |
| badly needed a new tub. I didn't count a wall having | | | | Wheelchair or walker. Perhaps when choosing a tub |
| to come out to accomodate a new tub. Also that | | | | you could choose one that allows you just to step in. |
| meant that the new tub surround I had installed just | | | | These things may be more costly now but your |
| two years before had to be taken out. The bids I | | | | needs will change and then these features will pay |
| got were closer to $10,000. Too much we would just | | | | for themselves. |
| have to put up with the old bath. | | | | The shower should be equipped with a water |
| My new toliet did not work very well. While the toliet | | | | pressure-equalizing device so that when a toilet |
| itself looked just fine it did not flush well. The federal | | | | flushes, someone in the shower doesn't experience a |
| government outlawed the standard toilet | | | | sudden increase in water temperature. Also, the |
| homeowners have used for decades, so they are no | | | | shower should have a seat. |
| longer being produced. Now, you must install a toilet | | | | A flexible hose attached to a showerhead makes it |
| that only uses 1.5 gallons of water per flush. So if | | | | easier for someone with disabilities to wash. It also |
| you have an older toliet you may just want to | | | | makes it easier to bathe small children or the family |
| replace the inards toliets don't wear out. Some | | | | pet. |
| higher-end toilets also come with pressure-assisted | | | | Many people now isolate the toilet area from the |
| flush mechanisms. Available for years in the | | | | rest of the bathroom with a partial wall or privacy |
| commercial market, these toilets use compressed air | | | | glass. |
| to assist in flushing. However, these toliets can cost | | | | There are many wonderful features that can be |
| from $150. to $500. | | | | installed in bathrooms now. Heated floors, large |
| So think about whether it is worth the new look or | | | | windows or extra lightening, ceramic tile, 2 sinks, |
| the toliet flushing well before you buy a toliet. | | | | jacuzzi tubs. Of course ceiling fans are now part of |
| While you are thinking about remodeling the bath you | | | | the regular options. I installed a skylight as my |
| might think about your needs changing in a few | | | | bathroom is tucked in between the bedrooms and |
| years and safety factors. | | | | garage with no outside wall. |
| Bathrooms should be designed with floors that do | | | | These are all things to think about when you are |
| not become slick when wet. Avoiding things like sharp | | | | deciding on a bathroom remodel. |