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Wheelchair Accessible Bathroom Shower

Bob visits a Roxbury, Massachusetts home where a Kohler shower stall in being installed. The unit is called a free will shower. It is meant for someone who is bound to a wheelchair. It has grab bars and seats already built into the unit. It is not the everyday average shower stall. Gerry Folan, a plumber contractor, is installing a shower valve on the shower that has an anti-scald feature. The valve also has a handle on the front instead of a knob. Both of these features will assist a wheelchair bound person. Gerry also installs an air chamber adjacent to the shower valve which will stop the pipes from vibrating when shutting the water off.
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" Let's talk about installing a Kohler shower stall and it's not an average normal when this was called. The three will shower you'll notice it's it's it's pretty spacious and it's meant for someone who has you know wheelchair bound situation where they can get. In and out of the wheelchair there's already grab bars in here there's a built in. Seats and there's lots of modular elements that make for very comfortable showering situation. Let's go around back and meet debt Jerry fallen who's our plumbing contractor. They Jerry are you coming back there. That's about. This mount installed. Not hear about now you've already put together. Basic parts there just a basic just to show. And this element that that -- know that I didn't so your assistant is on the inside you know putting in the that shiny -- develop control this is an anti skelter bow right that's correct all right it'll have a lever. Instead of -- not too -- or not done enough to see it's easier Farrah. Finally got it if it's on an honest sort of phenomenon. Now of course the debate features those that affected you you don't have to worry about solving situations. -- Not knowing that you can -- don't. On the inside."

" So this sort of prepare the -- Justice. More for technical support for a you have -- you'll look back and you know. On the more that's temporary that's just separating. She hasn't looked up there -- Offset that Bob yep it's --"

" Okay then what's the next step there notably on to a happens to these that your -- and one -- air chamber of okay this Simmons a specialty. And the reason for those types of things that don't put. Exactly so at both the hot and the cold feeds you're adding essentially a length of pipe that acts as an air chamber hasn't trivia and on both sides by having that that kind of air chamber allows the water to. Kind of -- into that chamber when the faucet is turned off in her. That's correct and and that way you avoid having the clanging banging pipes banging pipes -- right. So we will be soldering that yeah I would --"

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" All right this will be a little bit like an assembly line soldering operation because you -- cut. And flexed and fitted with about a half dozen spots that have to be started now that's. OK and you slide back into place. -- says the rest of the houses and plastered this -- the backflow which is an exterior wall has already been insulated. Private law here for rigidity when this thing goes up against it. Yeah squeezed out there before -- push back the rest of the way. Too little -- there. It's really the beginning construction considering it. It's not the -- yeah one guy but they had to be the first of several very special. Plumbing fixtures and going to the bathroom."

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