Way to manoeuvre wheelchair in tight space

[Bob Eager]

I am probably going to have that available on the day too!

[Bob Eager]

Not noticeably. Problem there is that the occupant projects from the front and feet hit the wall!

[meow2222]

Polythene against polythene slides wonderfully. Rubble bags do nicely - binbags dont last long.

NT

[Bob Eager]

I have some very heavy duty polythene - somewhere.

[Nightjar]

DPC sheet is probably the easiest heavy duty polythene to get hold of and quite cheap. However, you can also buy it in rigid sheets, if the idea works. I used to use 1 inch thick polythene as work tops for tables in a clean room.

[JTM]

Hospitals and care homes use (or used to I believe) a heavy guage plastic sheet to slide patients in/ onto/ from beds and trolleys.

Or how about two sheets of groundsheet type material -(one square to park the chair on and slide it along longer second piece) with shiny sides facing (Perhaps with silicon spray to reduce friction)

J

[Nightjar]

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

An HD Lazy Susan - dead cheap now.

450kg capacity, 12" diameter, and easily platformed to allow a chair to roll on.

[Bob Eager]

I've had a look, and if the turntable is made round the chair won't get all four wheels on. If I make it bigger, there's no room to rotate. Just a bit more space and that would be a good solution!

[Bob Eager]

Thanks. That looks a similar material to the stuff used in the Sliderz mentioned earlier.

I've decided to order some small Sliderz and try them out. We'll need these in two weeks' time for a Christmas party!

[Nightjar]

The turntable does not have to be round. It only needs to be rectangular and of a size to take all four wheels. You may not even need to turn the wheelchair a full 90 degrees for it to be able to get around the corner.

Alternatively, a rectangular tray the wheelchair can be driven onto with large castor wheels fitted, rather like a car crawling dolly, would allow you to manoeuvre it around as you like.

[Chris Holford]

In article , Nightjar

A quick, improvised method might be to drive each wheel on to a glossy magazine.

[Bob Eager]

I should have said 'if I make it rectangular' rather than 'if I make it bigger'. The corners would foul other stuff!

[Nightjar]

On 12/12/2014 23:41, Bob Eager wrote: ...

It sounds like moving house is going to be the simplest solution.

[Chris J Dixon]

Just so that we can get our heads round the space limitations, are you saying that, even if you had a device capable of rotating the whole chair about a pivot point, in doing so it would foul some structure?

Chris

[Bob Eager]

There is a way of removing one of the corners but I'd rather not.

I'll see how the Sliderz go. Turns out theer are a couple of the big ones at work so I took a look. I've ordered a set of four small ones.

[Tim Lamb]

I take it you have tried reversing? Last time I sat waiting in a Waitrose *minimal spacing* car park, I was impressed by the ladies backing their Chelsea tractors into impossible slots!

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[Bob Eager]

Yes. It has to be a sort of incremental manoeuvre, I think. We;ve done it in the past by driving round the corner as far as possible, then lifting the back round a bit, then going backwards a bit, then forwards on full lock, then lifting the back round....

[Tim Lamb]

Umm.. try reversing. Once the rear wheels are entered, a bit of shunting should get the rest through?

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[Bob Eager]

Would require a lot of very fine control, and a lot of backing and filling. The occupant isn't up to that (and gets flustered!)