If you are in need of a wheelchair ramp, and aren't interested in building your own wheelchair ramp, than you are going to need to find a wheelchair ramp supplier that you can purchase your ramps from. There are rarely wheelchair ramps available for purchase at your local Walmart or other department store, so you may have to do a little bit of research in order to find a quality wheelchair ramp supplier.

If someone in your family or a friend is wheelchair bound, you may be interested in purchasing a ramp that will make it easier for your friend to visit you at your home. If you have steps or a fairly steep incline that can't be avoided in order to get to your front door, than you'll want to find a qheelchair ramp supplier you can call to purchase an appropriate ramp for your home's situation.

Yellow Pages Wheelchair Section

One of the easiest places to look for a supplier of wheelchair ramps is your phone book's yellow pages. Look under “wheelchair” to see the type of listings they provide, and there may be a supplier in your local area. If there is not a supplier in your immediate area, the yellow pages are not going to be all that much help to you since they are based on geographic location.

Wheelchair Internet Resources

Using the internet is a great way to find just about anything that you're looking for that you don't know how else to find! Open your favorite internet search engine and type in “wheelchair ramp supplier” and you will get pages and pages of listings for suppliers. To narrow your search a little further, and keep you from having to look at thousands of websites, include your city or state within your search term; something like “wheelchair ramp supplier, New York”. This should return only suppliers who deliver to or are local to the state you include.

Hospital Services

Sometimes, your local hospital can be a valuable resource for finding a wheelchair ramp supplier. Simply call the hospital's information desk and ask whether or not they have a list of possible suppliers in the local area that you could call or visit to purchase a wheelchair ramp.

EBay AUctions

In eBay, you can often find what you are looking for in seconds. However, in the case of eBay, you wouldn't look up the entire search phrase of “wheelchair ramp supplier”, as eBay would become your supplier of wheelchair ramps. Just use the search b ox on the site to search for “wheelchair ramps” and you will receive a list of people and businesses who have ramps for sale. One of the benefits of using eBay includes the ability to talk to the “seller” of the ramps before you make the purchase. Sometimes you will be bidding on brand new ramps, while other times you may be bidding on wheelchair ramps that have been used. In either case, make sure you ask for details about the condition of the ramps before you place a bid on them.

American Disability Association

You may also want to try contacting an organization for handicapped individuals, like the American Disability Association. Sometimes they will have listings of available wheelchair ramp suppliers, or a list of ramps for sale by people who no longer need them due to building bigger or better, or moving to a place that already has ramps built in or perhaps a place that doesn't require any ramps at all.