Accessible - Seats

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Stone seat
Wooden stool or chair
Metal framed bathing bench with woven seat made of recycled tyre inner tubes
Suitable for: bathers with difficulty standing to bathe, e.g. poor balance, mobility difficulties, stiffness, heavily pregnant, high fever.


Construction Advantages Disadvantages Improvements / variations Cost / labour
Stone seat
  • Locally available materials (e.g. stones, concrete slab)
  • Durable, strong
  • Repels water, easy to clean
  • Stones could be heavy so hard to move
  • Might be rough and uncomfortable
  • Use bricks plastered with cement screed or clay paste to make seat smooth
  • Inflated inner tube can be placed on rock for comfort
Low
Wooden stool or chair

Seat made or bought locally according to the user's specifications

  • Seat lacks drainage
  • Unfinished wood will quickly deteriorate
  • Seal wood with paint/varnish to make it waterproof
  • To improve drainage, replace solid seat with slats, or add holes in seat (see below)
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Medium
Metal framed bathing bench with woven seat made of recycled tyre inner tubes
  • Soft seat is comfortable to sit
  • Rubber repels water
  • Webbing provides good drainage
  • User sinks into seat, so can be difficult to get up without support
  • Might start to sag with extended use

Wood frame instead of metal

Medium


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