Yeah, they sewed them back on.  He spent a couple of weeks with a huge bandaged fist.  Like any child he was hugely resilient but every now and then he'd spot his bandages (usually when they got in the way of climbing or some other mischief) and say "ow.... poor me" and then kiss his bandaged hand.

As usual it is the adults that wear the lifelong scars.... I doubt my nephew even remembers it but my sis felt awful and now, years later my sisters and I won't use oil fin heaters at all around small children.

mum2paris wrote: If it's a short term thing, since your landys won't spring - i'd go for an oil fin. if it's a large one like Fiona said - your girls would have to be riding it to tip it.

My nephews one was an 11 fin (so quite large) he used his entire body weight to knock it over and the weight of it (and his body on top of it) is how it managed to actually chop his finger tips off instead of just crush them.  I think the smaller ones that people use in bedrooms are actually safer because there's less weight behind them if they're tipped IYKWIM. 

I don't mean to scare anyone unduly but I do think they're extremely dangerous and I personally wouldn't have them in my house.  If you're set on getting an oil heater you can get them with enclosed fins (so the outer surface is flat) which would be safer.

Jo - I am always nervous about oil fins heaters tipping over. The one we have in Olis room has rounded fins (IYKWIM), but still figure it would be pretty heavy if it fell on him. We have convection heaters in our lounge and our bedroom, they are good for warming up the space quickly. Ours are hot to touch, but I dont think that they would actually burn...he would get a shock and maybe a red mark, but dont think they would burn as such. Still...we have put the one in the lounge behind a table to make it harder for him to get to!

BTW I hate hate hate oil fin heaters... especially around toddlers, they're very very very dangerous!!!

My nephew was 2yo when he managed to tip his over, falling on top of it with his fingers on the underside.  The top of 3 of his fingers on his right hand were chopped off by one of the fins when it landed. 

Luckily the heater was off at the time so he didn't get any burns to match.

We've just recently bought a convection heater too.  I got it from the warehouse and it has a digital thermometer and timer and can run at 1000w, 1200w or 2200w and it has a fan function too for when you're heating the room first thing.  It was $70 on special (although they'd mispriced the one I picked and it only cost me $40).  The cost to run is about 30cents per hour.

The cheapest form of heating, other than a heatpump, is a wall mounted panel heater.  It costs 5 cent per hour to run and costs $145 to buy from www.econo-heat.co.nz.

 We use a convection heater which warms it up our lounge/kitchen/dining/hall area really good! Then i just use a small oil heater in Briahnas room.

Can you ask your LL to put a heat pump in??