Baby proofing for rental property
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Topic: Baby proofing for rental property
Posted By: LouD
Subject: Baby proofing for rental property
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 5:46pm
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Has anyone got any tips for baby proofing so theres no permanent damage to drawers or cupboards. Its a brand new kitchen and the drawers are on rollers. I have attached some velcro at the moment bt that will only suffice for a little while.
Does 3M have anything? that comes off and leaves no marks |
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Posted By: monikah
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 5:51pm
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3M has quite a lot of stuff. I personally dont let my kids in the kitchen at all. Ive seen some horrible burns when walking in a hospital from ppl tripping over children while carrying a pot of water etc... if its too hard to do all the bits in the kitchen could you put a safety gate in the doorway? ------------- 
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Posted By: LouD
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 5:57pm
| I have a very large open plan kitchen so a gate wouldnt work, would need a very very large gate... If Im in the kitchen doing 'dangerous" stuff I put my son in his high chair or his brother entertains him in the lounge, but all the other times (I seem to spend so much time in the kitchen doing goodness knows what) he plays with the drawers and gets his fingers jammed often.....(slow learner......lol) |
Posted By: JessDub
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 6:19pm
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We used various safety latches (dreambaby brand) from Bunnings/Mitre 10 etc on all our drawers.
Having just sold our home, I've found de-solv-it (an orange-based remover from Bunnings/Mitre 10) removes the sticky bits with no damage to the laminate - and I used an oven scraper to prise the sticky pads off after I'd sprayed them. So yes, any sticky thing can be removed with some TLC and de-solv-it. ------------- 
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 6:49pm
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If you've got your kitchen set up so that the drawers at the lowest have things like pots and pans tupperware etc then I wouldn't worry too much about them, those drawers are the most fun they soon learn not to put fingers in it and if they do they learn to shut things.
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Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 7:26pm
| I think you can buy things that stop doors and drawers from shutting too quickly. |
Posted By: kiwi2
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 7:40pm
| What sort of handles do you have. I swear by rubber bands or hair ties around cupboard doors where the handles are knobs and two doors are side by side with handles close. For draws with a bar handle try a stick down all the drawers. You can foam wrap a piece of dowel etc. |
Posted By: HuMum
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 9:12pm
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We put all the really unsafe stuff in one cupboard and used the dream baby external cabinet sliding locks. We also used the piece of wood with a hook screwed into the top that slide down all the handles.
However the cupboard with all the crockery can't be locked...so to distract him we made one drawer DS drawer. Its full of plastic stuff and he happily plays in it, empties it and now he older loves to put the clean containers from the dishwasher into it. |