Slightly off topic: some cities in the States now require that new homes and renovations be done with handicapped accessibility. This includes handrails in the bath, doors wide enough to accomodate wheel chairs, ramps, etc. Well meaning but cost-wise a real burden for the average homeowner. It cost me $13000 to renovate a bath up to city code WITHOUT widening the doorway or making the bath tub handicapped accessible. An upstairs apartment leaked and completely destroyed my bath. Falling ceilings took out the tub. A real disaster. Given that no one with a handicap would be using the bath and that my apartment had an inside stairway entrance I didn't see a handicapped person ever buying the place but had a city inspector chosen to visit I would have been fined and forced to make the upgrades.