My wife and I are both blind and live in a house with an oddly made walkway between the street and the front door. Recently too, we've been having guests who are also visually impaired. Basically, as you leave the front door, there's a set of three high steps of different heights. Then, there's maybe fifteen feet of sloping sidewalk leading to another set of three steps of different heights.
My wife has determined that there shall henceforth be a railing at least on the two sets of steps, and perhaps along the connecting sidewalk as well. I'm in the process of figuring out whether I want to tackle this myself or contract it out. The railings I've put up in the past have been more decorative than functional, and they were fastened to the concrete with one of those stud drivers. So, a couple questions for folks with experience doing this. Does the irregularity of the step height present a serious problem? Am I going to have to cement the posts in to make this really stable? If we decide to leave the connecting sidewalk railingless, we want to put some kind of detectable warning at the top of the second set of steps. Any of you know how difficult it is to use those little truncated domes on concrete? Thanks ahead of time for your thoughts. Bill Stephan Kansas City, MO (816)803-2469 William Stephan To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
