Aging in place in Clinton

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Permits, utilities and local rules for Aging in Place work in Clinton

Clinton is an incorporated city and the county seat of Anderson County, so its own building and codes office permits the work and the Clinton Utilities Board supplies water, wastewater and electricity - a different city, county and utility from the Knox County entries on this list. The city permit counter is the one that matters for a widened bathroom door, a curbless conversion or an exterior ramp, and the utility account comes from the board. The housing has two parts. The older town grid around Main Street, Market Street and the river side carries 1940s to 1960s single-storey houses, some of them built for the rail and industrial work that grew the town, with one bathroom, a tub combination and a narrow door, plus a raised porch at the entry. The newer streets and subdivisions off Clinton Highway and Eagle Bend Road were built from the 1970s onward with 30 to 36 inch doors, larger baths and garages at grade. In the newer stock the work is usually the tub-out shower conversion and the grab bars rather than a doorway change.

Municipal reference: Clinton Utilities Board

Getting an accessibility contractor out to Clinton

Clinton is a straight run north-west from Knoxville on Clinton Highway, US-25W, which is the direct line from Powell and the city and the route most crews take, or on I-75 to the Anderson County exits and then west. Inside the city, Main Street and Market Street carry the old grid, Eagle Bend Road and Clinch Avenue serve the newer streets, and the Clinch River runs along the southern and western edge of town. The river is the local grade story: land on the river side falls away toward the water, and the ridge streets north of Main climb away from it, so a lot can carry a real slope even though the town reads flat from the highway. Traffic through Clinton is largely local and light compared with the Knoxville corridors, so a job here is usually a comfortable drive, and the addresses are close together once a crew is in town. The clay soil and the spring rain that come with East Tennessee mean drainage at the bottom of a walk or ramp is part of the work.

What Clinton's housing stock means for aging in place

Clinton's two parts of housing measure differently. The older town-grid houses are 1940s to 1960s single-storey homes, often brick or frame with a raised porch, one bathroom at five by eight feet, a tub and shower combination behind a 28 to 30 inch door, and hardwood floors; some sit over a crawlspace and some have a basement cut into the slope, which puts an interior stair between the living level and the lower floor. The newer streets off Clinton Highway and Eagle Bend Road are one-level ranches and later houses with 30 to 36 inch interior doors, a hall bath and a master bath, a separate shower in many of them, and a garage at or near grade. In the newer stock the doorway is often already usable and the work narrows to removing the tub, forming a low-threshold or curbless entry, adding blocking and grab bars and treating the floor for slip resistance. In the older houses the doorway becomes part of the job again.

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