If you do a lot of remodeling work,
sooner or later you'll be asked to rework
a shower to make it more accessible for
someone who uses a wheelchair. If you
shop around for one of the prefab accessible
units, you'll notice two things: One
is, they don't come cheap, especially the
nicer acrylic ones. And second, these
units take up space you may not have in
the bathroom, not without knocking
down walls and stealing from an adjoining
room. The problem with a small
bathroom is that a wheelchair needs a
comfortable turning radius — usually
5 feet is specified — and the sidewalls of
a shower unit get in the way unless it
can