Arlington County, Virginia
In an Arlington brick colonial or Cape Cod, your parent may climb steps outside before climbing to bed inside. Both climbs go in the report.
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Most older Arlington houses will stand for decades more. The weak point is the person climbing them.
The brick colonials and Cape Cods built across the county around World War II put the bedrooms, and often the only full bath, up a flight of stairs. Many sit on sloped lots, so your parent climbs outside before climbing inside.
That is a physical problem with a physical fix.
The only full bath is often on the second floor, with a tub from decades back. Grab bars go into the framing, a curbless shower can replace the tub, and an anti-scald valve guards against hot water.
Grab bar installation and bath safety in ArlingtonHilly streets in north Arlington leave many houses with a run of brick or concrete steps up from the sidewalk. Rails on both sides come first. A ramp or a gentler side entry can follow where the grade allows.
Wheelchair ramp installation in ArlingtonWhen the climb is simply too much, a den or a dining room turns into the bedroom. A full bath beside it is the bigger job, and it needs a county permit.
First-Floor Living in ArlingtonIn Buckingham, Fairlington and the apartments along Columbia Pike, the building itself belongs to the association or the landlord. The work inside the unit still counts. Trip edges come out, slick floors get grip, and the path to the bathroom gets a night light.
Flooring in ArlingtonA new bathroom, a ramp or a moved wall in Arlington goes through Arlington County's permit office, and a condo building may want its board to approve the work as well.
For Arlington, see Area Agency on Aging and Residential building permits.
We cover the whole county, from Lyon Village down to Shirlington.
I 66, US 50 and Langston Boulevard cross Arlington toward Falls Church, with Metro stops strung from Rosslyn out to Ballston. Arlington National Cemetery and Pentagon City sit on the eastern side, near the Potomac.
Yes. Arlington County is about 4.4 miles from the US Capitol and squarely in our area, from the houses off Glebe Road to the apartments on Columbia Pike.
Call as soon as the discharge date is set. We walk the house, rank the fixes by danger and price them in writing, so you see what must happen before she arrives.
Yes, inside the unit. Anything touching a shared wall, the plumbing riser or the building entrance needs the board or the landlord to agree first.
Arlington lies west of the US Capitol.
See the sidewalk steps, the Cape Cod stair and the upstairs bath in the Arlington house ranked, with a fixed price for each fix.