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Housing adaptation services
Where housing adaptations
are required, it’s vital that
they’re managed in a timely
and efficient manner to
cause minimal disruption
for your tenants.
Whether through the Disabled Facility Grant or other
funding, we’re experienced in carrying out housing
adaptation services for a number of Registered
Providers and typically undertake the following:
• The isolation and removal of an old bathroom suite
and/or kitchen fittings
• Structural alterations to doorways, floors and walls
for new equipment and wheelchair access
• Relocation of underground drains and soil pipes
• Tiling
• Rewiring for new shower position, cooker, altered
light switches, etc.
• Installation of new equipment
• Alteration to heating systems
• Decoration upon completion
• Maintaining services to residents while work
is in progress
• Disposal of all rubbish to licensed waste sites.
To talk to us about your housing adaptation needs contact us at
es.sales@npower.com
Housing adaptation for disabled or elderly tenants
can be a sensitive and stressful process. Our expertise
in this area is well established and through our
network of approved installers and NICEIC accredited
electrical contractors, each adaptation job is carried
out as a complete project.
From the design and build stage through to electrics,
plumbing, decoration, glazed tiling and floor laying,
by managing these projects end to end we can
reduce the time involved, minimising the impact
on your tenant.
Case Study – Housing Adaptations, Daventry &
District Housing
Registered Providers have a duty of care for all their
tenants including those who may need more support
in their homes. The Disabled Facility Grant is one
way in which Registered Providers can facilitate any
required work on tenants’ homes where adaptation
to a kitchen, bathroom or other area of the home may
be needed.
In the case of Daventry & District Housing they were
able to facilitate some adaptation work through
their Major Improvement Programme. Under this
programme they approached npower to adapt the
bathrooms of two homes so that they were more
suitable and practical for the tenants to use.
Our solution
It was our task to meet the needs of Daventry &
District Housing, by providing level access shower
room adaptations for these two properties, whilst
ensuring that the work was carried out efficiently and
with sensitivity to cause the least amount of disruption
possible to the tenant.
We offer a fully comprehensive housing adaptations
service managing this work in a timely and efficient
manner to cause minimal disruption to the tenants
whilst we are in their home. We help to manage
everything as efficiently as possible by providing
an end-to-end service including survey, design,
pricing and installation.
Best products for the job
With the tenants’ needs in mind, we sourced a shower
product with built in temperature control. These
showers have a valve which prevents the water from
getting too hot, therefore preventing a vulnerable
tenant from injuring themselves with scalding water.
When installing a grab rail and shower seat, we make
sure that the tenant is available so that we are able to
judge the right height and position for their needs. The
level access shower room allows obstacle-free access
to bathroom facilities for those who may not have the
ability to use a traditional bath or shower.
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