Construction Headquarters offers innovative solutions that improve the quality of life for the elderly and less able and help them achieve independent living. Our partnership with AKW provides our customers with products that are thoughtfully designed and carefully manufactured to enhance daily living activities.
Our team of universal design specialists are also Certified Aging in Place Specialists (CAPS). We can assist you in incorporating these concepts into your remodel so you and those you love can stay in your home. AKW products are components of universal design and provide needed features to ensure mobility and safety, while keeping your home beautiful and stylish. AKW products carry a Life Time Warranty guarantee when installed by a certified AKW dealer.
Call us for a free consultation and home assessment to see how our products and services can be incorporated into your home remodeling projects. We can show you how our shower systems are more flexible to meet your remodeling needs, and can be purchased and installed at a lower cost than other systems.
Can be used on wood or concrete
Requires 1" recess into floor, is designed to sit on floor joist 16" on-center and edge support minimizes the need to restructure the floor. No water dam required and can be surface mounted.
Base can be cut to length in field (with kit).
Intergrip (trademark), a unique patented clamping edge creates a watertight joint between base & flooring.
Anti-slip floor surface has proper slope built-in.
Ramp kit available for non-recessed installations.
Alcove and corner units are available.
Can be used in bariatric applications of up to 560 lbs.
Lifetime Warranty and UPC/IAPMO Certified.
Bi-fold design allows swing in either direction up to 180 degrees for a greater opening area. This enables the door to be positioned out of the way. It also locks in the open position.
Bi-fold design allows swing in either direction up to 180 degrees for a greater opening area. This enables the door to be positioned out of the way. It also locks in the open position.
Incorporates a rise and fall hinge (door rises off floor when opening, lowers door to floor when closing). It avoids dragging door across the floor.
Six edge wiper blade seal on bottoms of doors.
Corner, alcove and portable doors are available.
Corner, alcove and portable doors are available.
It has an adjustable width to accommodate variations in walls.
Lifetime warranty.
AKW SHOWER & BATH SEATS: Innovative and unique shower seats have been carefully designed following consultation with occupational therapists, end users, and installers. The resulting products are attractive, strong, safe, comfortable, rust proof and will give years of regular and trouble free service.
AKW TUFF FORM: The Tuff-Form wet floor former provides complete barrier free showering and is designed to create a wet floor shower area with either vinyl floor covering or ceramic tiles. The Tuff-Form can also be cut to length or width to allow it fit around awkward shapes without losing any structural integrity
AKW SHOWER DOORS: May be the only shower door on the US Market to assist those with limited mobility and their care-providers. The helf-height design allows the care-provider to assist the bather, while controlling water defection and staying dry.
The requirements of elderly and disabled kitchens were paramount when developing the customized Independence range.
The unique Independence kitchen provides an inclusive and fully functional room, and can be designed to suit both the space available and the client’s specific needs.
This fully bespoke range boasts a wide variety of features, options, sizes and door colors to meet all easy access requirements.
AKW are also able to offer a full selection of elderly and disabled kitchen accessories and suitable appliances to complete your kitchen.
Safety Tubs® Revolutionary Walk In Bathtubs - the Premier Acrylic Walk In Tub!
Safety Tubs® designs and manufactures award winning acrylic and gelcoat walk in bathtubs. Our revolutionary walk in tubs are the premier bathtub for a safer, healthier and more comfortable bathing experience. Safety Tubs® walk in bathtubs are great for active seniors, elderly people, disabled people, people with limited mobility or anyone looking for a safer and more comfortable bathing experience. We now offer many new features and options — all exclusive to Safety Tubs — including: the T5™ patented door system, the patent pending Minute Drain™
AKW MULLEN PAN: The Mullen shower base provides complete barrier free showering (0" Entry threshold) and can be installed within hours with either vinyl floor covering or ceramic tiles. This is a visible base and features a unique clamping bar system to prevent water seepage. There are 4 cut-to length models of Mullen ShowerBases that are designed to fit in the same space as the existing bathtub or shower.
BARRIER FREE KITCHENS
AKW Grab Barsprovide the extra confidence and assistance needed by many people in their every day lives.
Whether the need is for inside or outside the home, our grab bars are both attractive and functional.
For those with a visual disability, the blue color of the grip has been specially produced to ensure the best possible contrast against any background.
Quick and easy instalation
Intergrip® clamping system on two access sides firmly
secures and seals the floor covering into the base
Size (some models) can be customized on site
Alcove and corner bases available.
Pre-formed holes for easy installation.
Alcove and corner baes and adapter kits available
Construction Headquarters is an authorized Dealer for AKW products