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The ADA ramp at my son's school changed how I bid jobs now
I had to pick between a cheap quick fix and the full accessible rebuild for a client in Fresno, took the expensive route, and watching a kid in a chair roll up that slope solo made me realize I should've been asking about accessibility on every single project from day one, has anyone else's work shifted after they saw someone actually use what you built?
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noranguyen6d ago
That line about watching a kid roll up the slope solo really gets me, because the part nobody talks about is how the fix isn't even done once the ramp is in. I do site work in older buildings and the ramp is usually the easy part. The hard part is the door at the top that's too heavy to push, the curb cut that dumps you into a puddle when it rains, the snow storage spot that blocks the whole path by January. A slope that works in July can be useless half the year. So now when I look at a job I'm not just asking if it's accessible, I'm asking if it still works on the worst day of the year. Do you ever go back and check a ramp months later to see how it's holding up?
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