ADA is finally ‘seeing its way through the marketplace.’
John Lovelace saw the trend before it happened. About two years ago, one of his relatives was suffering from a disease that kept her wheelchair-bound. He saw the difficulties she had in heeding nature’s call. She could not use the facilities without the help of family and friends. Lovelace knew it wasn’t right.
Since then Lovelace has gone on a crusade to change the way people in Morgan County, Ala., think about handicap accessible bathrooms. “As older buildings are updated, our building department is requiring all existing buildings to be handicap accessible,” says Lovelace, owner of Lovelace Plumbing Co. Inc. in Decatur, Ala. “It’s becoming a real good market for us in commercial and retail buildings, and it’s growing as far as the residential market. We’re developing the market down here because there’s no place to go for people to see and try handicap accessible fixtures.”