Houseworks: How to build an access ramp

Access ramps for public buildings and private homes are something you see everywhere — and that’s a good thing. But there are also surprisingly few sources of information and plans available online for building access ramps that meet code and work well. When I noticed this deficiency a couple of years ago, I went ahead and designed a generic access ramp plan and I put it on the internet for free. Those plans are now the fourth-most-popular thing on my website, and I regularly field q