DOUGLAS DELABIE’S NEW COMFORT SHOWER SEAT

Douglas Delabie, the specialist supplier of grab bars, rails and hygienic accessories for public and commercial places, has added a range of removable shower seats designed for disabled people and those with reduced mobility.

Hanging on stainless steel rails and made of high-strength polyamide, and with backrest in white nylon, the Comfort Shower Seat is especially robust, making it ideal for intensive use in public buildings, hospitals and clinics.

As well as strength, user comfort is another key criterion – it’s warm to the touch, while its non-porous uniform surface ensures high levels of hygiene and easy maintenance.
The Comfort Shower Seat is resistant to most chemicals and cleaning products and features anti-UV treatment, which prevents discolouring over time.
The stainless steel tubing is bacteriostatic.

Adjustable screw jacks with large protective caps ensure a good horizontal position and prevent wall damage when fitted.

Measuring 590 x 416 x 510mm, the Comfort model is the largest of the Douglas Delabie removable seat options available, and tested to over 200kg, its recommended maximum user weight is 135kg.
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Carole Armstrong, the company’s marketing manager explains:
“Access is a right for people with reduced mobility. Architectural and technical provision must allow them, disabled and elderly people – everyone – to maintain their independence in every-day life.
Easy access must be ensured to all public places – civic buildings, cultural centres, hospitals, retail outlets, buildings with communal or individual dwellings.

“That’s why we place so much emphasis on providing a range of carefully designed and produced safety/grab bars and accessories. Products like the Comfort Shower Seat enable facilities to be adapted to meet the specific needs of all users, whatever their age or disability.

“For instance, our sturdy ‘T’ shower horizontal and vertical hand rail supports the removable shower seat and ensures secure movement in the shower.
Also, it can be used as a shower head rail by adding a sliding showerhead holder or soap dish.”

Shower area guidance:
Carole Armstrong gives this advice for shower area facilities for disabled and less mobile people:
“Buildings with showers or changing room facilities, such as swimming pools, hotels, hospitals, retirement homes, should incorporate equipment enabling people to sit down. “Plus, access to a support when seated or standing – a lift-up shower seat or suspended shower seat and drop-down grab bars.

“Next to the equipment, a free – ‘utility’ – space should provide easy access for wheelchair users, with room for 180 degree turns. When seated, there should be convenient access to adapted taps, sliding showerhead holder, mirror, hair dryer etc.

“Also, we recommend installing a thermostatic mixing valve (TMV) for reliably safe temperature controlled water.”