Child proofing your stove
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Dgopetactical
Feeling the Heat
Just took a look a my granddaughters port a crib, I think I can rig something to keep her in there till she is 5 lol
yea, you can buy insulators from the feed store to string the wire on.......I always heard that if you grab someones hand and then grab the wire you wont get shocked by they will- try that out for me....no grandkids here yet....besides, our grandkids wont have the stories to tell THEIR grandkids unless we give em some stuff, will they?
..."Why, when I was your age, they put me in an electric enclosure so I wouldn't get into stuff...you kids these days have it EASY, I tell ya...."
Snowmobileaddict
Burning Hunk
We just got our stove hot as hell and brought them uncomfortably close for a short time while explaining that the stove is really hot and can hurt them. After a little squirming from the heat, problem solved.
Worked for our kids and a few others.
Worked for our kids and a few others.
Snowmobileaddict
Burning Hunk
That might work for the resident kiddos, but it was also a big concern of ours to safeguard against the little kiddos that come over to play that aren't in the know.
zrtmatos
Feeling the Heat
So how is that Bosca working for you?Here is how I did mine. It's a kidco and works great.
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Enigma869
Feeling the Heat
I can relate. My son (now 7) was only 3 when we started with our pellet stove and my daughter just turned two. We've never had anything around the stove, and we're very fortunate that my daughters has never gotten anywhere near it. She'll look at it and say "fire hot", so I think she understands.
I've got a P61 too, and it gets hot as hell. For me there was no question about putting a gate up. I used one from Lowes- a kids playyard or something. It looked like the black kidco ones others have shown, except mine was tan. It was very sturdy when mounted to the walls. Like others have said, we also used ours as a drying rack.
Last year was my first year without a gate. Believe me, it was nice to take it down and I was able to sell it to a coworker with a fireplace and little kids.
Last year was my first year without a gate. Believe me, it was nice to take it down and I was able to sell it to a coworker with a fireplace and little kids.
When we first had our 3 children, we were burning a coal stove, those cast iron bodies get real hot. All we did was tell them to stay away and enforce it. If they did test us, they only touched it once and never again. We have never had any problems. My wife also baby sat several kids during the day and none of them ever got near it either. Gotta enforce what you want the kids to do.
BigJohnfromCT
Feeling the Heat
We have a two year and a three year old grand sons that are into everything. When they come to visit I bite the bullet and shut the stove down and fire up the propane furnace. By the time you buy "fences" to put around the stove and deploy them and take them down to store, to me, it's just easier to turn up the thermostat.
toddnic
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Not a bad setup for $133. My kids are all older but I may have to get this at some point in the future when there are grandkids.
Thank you again for all your input. It was extremely helpful. I was going to order the kidco one, but I found this one at 50% off. I hope it's just as good.
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Marsha Cook
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Cannot help but relate this fact. I have a blind dog who had to learn the layout of the new home after moving. He only touched the stove once. Since that one touch,he has stayed clear.
That looks like a way nicer version of what I had. It should serve you well. I have thick baseboards, so I had to cut out spacers for my top mounts to make it fit correctly, but it was no big deal.
As someone who has taken a toddler to the doctor for a burn (not pellet stove related) it's not worth the risk.
As someone who has taken a toddler to the doctor for a burn (not pellet stove related) it's not worth the risk.
Snowmobileaddict
Burning Hunk
Snowmobileaddict
Burning Hunk
My bosca has been great. No problems, burns almost any pellet and even though they are without a distributor right now most all critical parts can be sourced through generic industrial substitutes.
BradH70
Feeling the Heat
I have the kidco gate around the stove downstairs. This has two purposes, to protect them from the hot stove and the raised brick hearth. My kids are 1 1/2 and 4 1/2 and they get to running running around pretty crazy some times. My brother fell against a brick hearth when he was about 3 years old and hit his head and it was not good.
The Castile that I have in the upstairs bonus room is open, and just like others posters, I have enforced the "No Touch" with the 1 1/2 year old with good success. The kids don't play in this room unattended either.
The Castile that I have in the upstairs bonus room is open, and just like others posters, I have enforced the "No Touch" with the 1 1/2 year old with good success. The kids don't play in this room unattended either.
Lake Girl
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My oldest daughter's first word was HOT! We had a valley comfort wood stove - Don't think they had anything like the kidco gate 23 years ago.
Bioburner
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They had stair guards etc. Aunt had a day care and got pretty creative with them. Reminds me of free range chickens with the low portable panels.
Hmm dinner plans, chicken dumpling soup.Teaching a child something is hot is good and all, but accidents happen. Kids trip all the time, they are constantly growing so everyday is like they have a new body to learn how to control. If you have a blazing hot stove and children are near it you should really consider a solution like the original poster found. My niece was 2 when she fell into a wood stove at a babysitters and put out her hands to catch herself. I wasn't there when it happened but was at the hospital for the aftermath. 3rd degree burns on both hands is a whole lot of pain for a child to endure not to mention all the skin grafts she had to have as she grew. She is a 28 year old young women now with horribly scared hands not to mention the scars on her back where they harvested the skin for the grafts.
that's awful. I'm glad I decided to go with the gate. The gate I ended up getting is backordered. Hopefully it gets here soon. He's only doing the military crawl right now.
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