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Bought an old caravan earlier this year, made a few adjustments to the layout to accommodate my disabled son. We do have a struggle getting him in and out of the van, ideally we need to replace the existing door with one wide enough to accommodate his wheel chair. Could anybody suggest where we could purchase such a door and frame? Thanks

Jim

Hello Jim

so hope you manage to get the problem sorted with cost we have not managed for our son in the caravan so we have bought an annex to go on awning although we cant do winter we feel he will enjoy the awning and have his own space in the warmer months best of luck

I hope someone somewhere starts to design vans to accomodate our disabled friends.

Jim I hope you get the door sorted and cheaply so your whole family can enjoy the van with ease

Quote: Originally posted by cathymac on 04/10/2008

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I hope someone somewhere starts to design vans to accomodate our disabled friends.

Jim I hope you get the door sorted and cheaply so your whole family can enjoy the van with ease

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Sounds good Lobey. Your van is just a wee cracker

We now need someone to design one to accomodate  a family with a disabled member

I reckon your best bet is to get another door and frame from a scrapyard and cut the door from top to bottom, down the middle and use the second door to patch in a bit.

Plain aluminium panels on the outside and plywood panels on the inside, will hide any internal joints and the extra lengths from the second doorfame, will give you the now wider top and bottom frame parts.

A Fiamma door lock will help you and your son in and out as well as give the extra wide door its own security.

I am not disabled and therefore I have to think about the problems that you may or may not have but I am fairly certain that there will be people in this group who have come across the problems that you are now facing and have solved them.

So keep asking.