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AKW & Sovereign Provide ‘Bathrooms for Life’

Being one of the largest housing associations in England means that Sovereign manages over 36,000 homes across the south and south west of the country. In total, they have over 70,000 residents…

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Crisis: The Disabled Facilities Grant | HWB Action

We have produced a white paper about the current crisis within the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funded home adaptations. The paper asks the key question: Are older and disabled people getting the…

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How much time do YOU spend in the bathroom?

The biggest thinkers amongst us spend over a year in the bathroom in their lifetime, according to a recent survey. It seems that so many people now are feeling comfortable in their bathrooms that…

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Video: How Accessible IS Accessible?

There are many official guidelines in place such as the BS8300, DOC M and the DDA Guidelines which define accessibility standards in specific environments. What we want to ask is… do these…

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Probably the quietest Pumped Shower Waste in the World…

Sometimes it is simply not possible to have a gravity waste system under a shower tray or a wet room floor, so when that is the case, the installer may need to fit a pumped waste system. AKW offers a …

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Accessibility: Shower Trays or Wet Room Formers

It’s always important to remember that accessibility is relative to each user. What may be deemed accessible for one, may be completely inaccessible for another, especially when it comes to…

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Accessibility: Shower Seats and Grab Rails

At AKW we always try to remember that accessibility is relative to each user. A facility that may be seen as accessible for one person, may be completely inaccessible for a different person with…

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5 Top Tips for Preventing Falls in the Bathroom – Infographic

It's Falls Awareness Week, an initiative by Age UK to try and reduce the number of falls which occur in the UK every year. Below, we have posted our 5 Top Tips to avoiding falls in the bathroom. …

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Bad Builders Bang To Rights and How We Helped

Bad Builders Bang To Rights is a new series from ITV, following Dominic Littlewood as he tracks down rogue tradesmen, bad builders and the people whose ‘lives have been ruined’ by them. In the…

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Cowboy Builders & Bodge Jobs

Cowboy Builders & Bodge Jobs is a Channel 5 programme where a team of experienced tradespeople put right the errors made by 'Cowboy Builders'. With donations from companies and manufacturers and…

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Introducing the AKW Shower App

The AKW SmartCare Plus shower is the first of its kind… a Bluetooth controlled electric shower. The AKW SmartCare Plus has many care benefits, one of which being the multiple modes of control,…

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What is a Wet Room Former?

Put simply, a wet room former is a shower tray that sits under the tiling or the type of floor that you have in your wet room. Its purpose is to create enough of a fall for water to drain out of the…

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