Today we went to put in a ramp for a wheelchair at a house in Franklin, about 5 miles from Sager Brown. The homeowner needs to use a wheelchair due to a weak heart and other medical conditions. When we got their the family decided they wanted the ramp to be put in at the back of the house off a porch. There was some plywood covering the actual floor of the porch. So we pulled up the plywood to inspect the condition of the structure. What we found was not good. There were many places that were damp and rotting. So the first order of business was to repair the porch, which we finished by lunch time.
The floor of the porch is about 44″ above the ground, so we had to plan for a ramp that was about 24′ long in order to make a slope that wasn’t too steep. After discussion, measuring and some strings and mirrors we had marked out the location of the end of the ramp and went to work. By quitting time we had finished about 1/2 of the ramp floor. Tomorrow we will finish the floor and put up the railing.
Keith took some pictures and I will add them to the blog this weekend, when I am at my brother’s where it won’t take an hour to download one picture. The internet connection here is really, really slow. It’s hard to believe that I will be leaving here on Friday. Time has really flown by.
August 25, 2009 at 3:05 am |
Hi Alice,
I know you are all doing a wonderful job down there but it will be good to see you again. You are all blessed.
Janice
August 25, 2009 at 6:19 pm |
Alice, thank you for all the fascinating blogs. I just learned how to ask you a Q. I’ve wondered this for a month:
Everybody must know that that old hotel is now used for domestic-violence victims. How do they keep the abusers away from it and the additional houses?
Sherry Lawrence
August 25, 2009 at 7:58 pm |
Sherry
The intake building looks like a hotel but is very secure and somewhat like a fortress on the inside. The additional facilities are in secured areas around Franklin. Many of the families that are clients of Chez Hope are not from Franklin but from other areas of southern Louisiana.