Accessibility & Safety

Making life at home easier for seniors and persons with disabilities

When faced with the need to alter a home to meet a family members physical limitations, it’s important to ensure the work is up to standards to ensure the highest degree of safety for your loved ones. This is where Sandgate Construction’s project management skills and experience are the perfect solution. We are experts in the accessibility process, and can deliver the changes needed efficiently, coordination sub-trade and ensuring quality of delivery.

Our team deals with the architectural needs around the accessibility requirements, and assists clients in the selection of suitable hardware such as chair lifts, rails, ramps and handles. You can purchase these fittings separately to help save on your renovations costs, allowing the construction costs to be clearly identified and easily understood. Such clarity is important for insurance, tax rebates and other claims.

Healthy Homes Renovation Tax Credit

The Ontario government recognizes the value of giving seniors the ability to age in their homes or living with family members. As such, they created the Healthy Homes Renovation Tax Credit to help you adapt your home to family members 65 years of age and older. This may include grab bars, non-slip flooring, and a walk-in bathtub for the bathroom. It may include lowering light switches, countertops, and other day-to-day fixtures for those living in wheelchairs. You may be able to convert outdoor stairways to ramps or add a chair lift to your indoor staircase. Find out how the Healthy Homes Renovation Tax Credit can support you and your family.

Achieve home comfort and safety for everyone in your family. Set up a complimentary consultation with Sandgate Construction to make it happen.