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Childproofing a Kitchen and Stairs in the Home
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" All right back in the kitchen now let's say hi to jay again anybody if there are lots of danger points in the kitchen from the point of view of toddlers that. And at what are some of the gadgets that are out there that can make life easier. Well to keep toddlers from preparing their own meals anything dangerous. That they might eat. We've got various types of adhesive latches for appliances -- assist appeal is stick gadget that you -- pretty -- was my next thrive when it comes in very handy to control what's in the refrigerator okay well my kids are grown up but I always remember putting in these little things that you push down so that they couldn't open the allied powers under the sink. Well they've come -- long -- Bob you can't even pinch your fingers in here because they won't open all of you but the magic magnet. And it will release from the inside that's what's going don't -- and so it's really clever Sinatra and you controlling it that way and it can also be deactivated with the flip of the -- that is so that lift. Children aren't around that's a great innovation yeah. Now what about stones aren't they a dangerous place yes that they are and there are few things we can do that don't even need equipment be. And -- refusing to back burners handles turned away dish towels kind of attract kids to him. Yeah so you want to keep them off of there right stove knob covers that is still got that covers her and everything it allows us to utilize the burners. Keep a child out. And what about receptacles. Well again that's a danger point well Bob we can replace the the cover now with a sliding. Outlet covers for the child -- pulling out of luck can't work that plug in and potato it automatically slides shut that's right to you don't have to worry about prying out those small choking hazard plug in and let's go look at the staircase a minute let's do it. So because we've got a two family house here our homeowners have to come up one flight. Before they're on their main floor and then -- got another flight of stairs to get to the bedroom level so we're really looking to two gates here. And how does this gate work is not different from the one over there -- gate at the top of the stairs and nothing in child safety is more important in improperly installed gate at the top of the stairs OK which needs two motions to operate 12. So you slide back and then lift them up and to close we can pretty much close it from anywhere and it'll drop right and we do not want this gate to go in that direction and -- it. All the movement over the landing that's -- learn about the installation though again. Installation you know gate is only as sturdy as what it's mounted on and you'll see two wood mount kits the K ten from cape -- And we've used what was available on the wall to mount it straight because if not straight it has a mind of its own we don't want gates swinging -- we don't want them swinging or minds who's all right well thanks protest."