Hi, Homeowner looking for advice on how to handle transitioning a wheelchair boardwalk to a driveway. The boardwalk will be meeting at a right angle and there is a mild slope to the driveway. I am following the plans on http://www.wheelchairramp.org/rampman/manual/ramp33b.htm My first thought is to use concrete, but I have not worked with concrete since helping my dad in High School, so I would need advice on how to do that. Complicating matters is the huge maple tree root system running through that part of my yard.
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So, are you ending the wood AT the drive, or coming down on top of it, away from the edge?
I'll try to find the link to the current issue of This Is Carpentry. (An Online Magazine)
Decent article in it on Wheelchair Ramps.
Here you go:
http://www.thisiscarpentry.com/
If I understand your question correctly......
Coming in from the side of the drive, the slope of the drive goes downhill (or up). Your sleepers need to be tapered to make the transition (or uncut and buried in well drained stone-either way, seal all cuts!).
With the taper and running the ramp level side to side, you'll need to run the downhill sleepers longer. They will go out in the drive more (or one side will be buried deeper) to make up for the drive grade.
Easier to do than to explain. The decking might need to be fanned around to accomplish this.
Might conside landing on pavers that you could screw with the grade a bit to get to the drive. Perhaps easier than concrete for you.
You need to run the ramp level side to side. Don't want to allow the wheel chair to want to run off at an angle.
Best of luck.