Any creative ideas for wheelchair access to an elevated slab (10 ft up)? Only options I can think of are an elevator, a very long ramp, an exterior chair lift, or a lot of fill dirt to build the entire surrounding area up. Lot is several acres so horizontal space is not a premium.
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you could build a helix for a challenge
Compressed air elevator.
Brian - I enjoyed your piece about being an Owner-Builder and I've got a pretty easy alternative to your top of masonry detail that might be of use to others.
At the begining of a project I get a case of Liquid Zip sausage tubes, a few sausage tubes of acoustic caulk and an 18" x 50' roll or two of vinyl deck flashing. When it's time to set the mud-sill I roll out 1/2 the perimeter of the concrete plus a bit in lengths correlated to the lengths of the treated lumber used for the mud-sills and then roll them up and chop them into 9" wide rolls on my chop saw. I staple these to the bottom of the mudsills as they are cut to final length and drilled for the bolts with 3" on the underside of the mudsill and 6" hanging off the exterior side of the mud-sill and then cover them with 6" sill seal. Just before rolling them down onto the bolts I run a heavy bead of acoustic caulk on the top of the concrete stem wall so the completed assembly is glued to the concrete with the acoustical caulk which can compress as weight is added to the building above. Once the walls are tilted up and sheathed I send someone around to pull the vinyl up and staple & liquid flash it to the sheathing and pull the house wrap down over that connection to adhere the house wrap to the vinyl flashing. Disposable dishwashing gloves are a big help here.
I've attached an illustration below from my detail sheet for building in North Carolina (where we use gate check valves to keep snakes out of the crawlspaces)