November Refurb and Retrofit Magazine

Triton show support for AMDEA register my
appliance initiative
Triton, The Great British Shower Company and the UK’s leading showering brand is proud to support the launch of AMDEA’s
(Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances) Register My Appliance initiative, which strives to improve safety for millions of
households nationwide. ‘
The new AMDEA scheme aims to capture a list of domestic appliances installed
throughout the UK from more than 60 leading brands and allow manufacturers quick
access to the owner’s details should remedial action be required. All consumers are asked
to do is visit registermyappliance.org.uk to provide information about any newly
purchased products – it is also possible to register older appliances (up to 12 years).
Having immediate access to this information will helps to improve household safety by
making it possible to quickly locate the appliance’s details, informing the owners about
the safety of their product and, most importantly, arranging the required service or
aftercare.
To celebrate the initiative launch, those who visit registermyappliance.org.uk throughout
this Autumn and provide the required information will be entered into free prize draws* for
a chance to win luxury home and lifestyle prizes. The prize season will include ‘Register My
Appliance (RMA) Day’ on 19th January 2017, where consumers will have further
opportunities to win luxury prizes.
David Tutton, managing director at Triton Showers, comments: “As the UK’s leading
shower manufacturer for more than 40 years, we are fully supportive of the new Register
My Appliance initiative from AMDEA. Speed and efficiency are key when it comes to the
safety, so we will be encouraging our customers – from installers, merchants, retailers and
the homeowners themselves – to get on board with the scheme and help to populate this
crucial database.”
For more important home safety advice and to register both old and new appliances visit
registermyappliance.org.uk. For further information about Triton’s product collection visit
tritonshowers.co.uk.
Changing the options for accessible toilets
Making ‘reasonable adjustments’ to the built environment to ensure compliance with the Equality Act is being made easier with the
launch of a new solution for ‘away from home’ accessible toilets.
Space To Change toilets plug the gap between conventional (Building Regulations Approved Document M 2013) wheelchair-accessible toilets,
and the ‘desirable’, additional, larger and better equipped Changing Places+ toilets.
The concept enables venues that are limited financially and/or on space to meet the needs of up to five million British children and adults* who
need changing and lifting facilities for their personal hygiene. It encompasses a 7m2+ (3m x 2.5m min) wheelchair-accessible toilet that further
includes an adult-sized changing bench and a hoist. Space To Change has been developed with leading Changing Places campaigners and
Clos-o-Mat (Britain’s leading supplier of disabled toilet solutions at home and away). Firefly Community, an online special needs community, will
drive the campaign, supporting campaigners and raising awareness of the need for accessible toilets that include height adjustable changing
benches and hoists.
“So often, venues and organisations say they understand the need for a Changing Places toilet, but, in existing buildings, as it should be provided
in addition to other accessible toilets, they haven’t the extra space- 12m2- or cannot afford the cost of potentially extensive building works to
create the additional space, and the ancillaries and equipment,” explains campaigner Tony Clough.
Adds fellow campaigner Sarah Brisdion, “Under the Equality Act, providers are required to make reasonable adjustments to the built environment
to avoid situations where a disabled person would be at a ‘substantial’ disadvantage, BEFORE
the person experiences difficulties. Not being able to access suitable toilets is, we believe, a
substantial disadvantage.
“In an ideal world, we would always prefer to have a Changing Places, but Space To Change
gives a viable alternative for providers constrained by space and/or money. Without these
facilities, we either have to lie our loved one on the toilet floor- which you wouldn’t even
expect to do with a baby- or we have to cut our trip short, or not go at all. Many wheelchairaccessible
toilets are already big enough, so all that is required to create a Space To Change,
which gives everything needed, is the addition of the changing bench and hoist!”
Full details of the Space To Change concept, plus technical support, CAD blocks etc, can be
found at www.clos-o-mat.com and http://community.fireflyfriends.com/campaigns/spaceto-change
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