ᐅ Child Safety When Using a Tiled Stove for Heating

A somewhat unusual question:
We are planning to install a tiled stove in the living-dining area. The stove will be fed from the hallway directly behind it.
We have a small child who will soon be walking actively.
The tiled stove itself does not get very hot (it doesn’t have a glass door), but the ash door in the hallway definitely will.

How can a protective barrier be installed here? I’m sure I’m not the only one with this problem. What options are there to prevent anyone from getting burned at this fireplace in the hallway?
Thank you!

Sometimes I wonder how we all managed to grow up. Without fall protection on the stairs, without safety covers on electrical outlets, without guards in front of the stove...

Hello,

Häuslebauer40 schrieb:
Sometimes I wonder how we all managed to grow up. Without fall protection on the stairs, without safety covers on electrical outlets, without guards in front of the stove...

ymmd

Kind regards

Even though this is quite off-topic, whenever I see questions like this, I can’t help but think of the following:

If you were born after 1978, this doesn’t apply to you!

Kids nowadays are wrapped in cotton wool!
If you grew up as a child in the 50s, 60s, or 70s, looking back it’s hard to believe we survived for so long!
As children, we rode in cars without seat belts or airbags.
Our cribs were painted in bright colors full of lead and cadmium.
We could easily open pharmacy bottles, just like the bottle of bleach.
Doors and cabinets were constant threats to our little fingers.
We never wore helmets on our bikes.
We drank water directly from taps, not from bottles.
We built soapbox cars and discovered during the first ride down a hill that we had forgotten the brakes. After a few accidents, we managed.
We left the house in the morning to play and stayed out all day, only returning when the streetlights came on. Nobody knew where we were, and we didn’t even carry a phone!
We got cuts, broke bones and teeth, and nobody sued over it. They were just accidents. Nobody was to blame except ourselves. Nobody asked about “duty of care.” Do you remember “accidents”? We fought and sometimes came home with bruises and black eyes. We had to deal with it because adults didn’t care.
We ate cookies, bread with thick butter, drank plenty of liquids, and still didn’t get overweight.
We drank from the same bottle with our friends and no one died from it.
We didn’t have PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Xbox, video games, 64 TV channels, videos, surround sound, personal TVs, computers, or internet chat rooms. We had friends!
We just went outside and met them on the street. Or we walked to their house and rang the bell. Sometimes we didn’t even have to ring and just went in—without appointments and without our parents knowing. Nobody drove us or picked us up. How was that possible?
We made up games with wooden sticks and tennis balls. We also ate worms. And the predictions didn’t come true: the worms didn’t live forever in our stomachs and we didn’t poke out too many eyes with the sticks.
Only good players could join street soccer. Those who weren’t good had to learn to handle disappointment.
Some students weren’t as smart as others. They failed exams and repeated grades. That didn’t lead to emotional parent-teacher meetings or changes in grading policies.
Our actions sometimes had consequences. That was clear, and no one could hide. If one of us broke the law, it was understood that parents wouldn’t get us out of trouble. On the contrary: they agreed with the police! Imagine that!
Our generation produced many innovative problem solvers and risk-taking inventors. We had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility. We knew how to handle it all.
And you are part of this too.
Congratulations.
Greetings to all who survived.

Sorry to the original poster. Don’t get me wrong. Of course, you have to do something for your children’s safety, but it can be taken too far.
Children (even toddlers) are not stupid and are quite capable of learning. Once a child is old enough to walk, they will understand that it hurts when you touch certain places.

Thank you for all the suggestions, although I can’t really use any of them!
I don’t know what some people have to do with their time, but for posts like these, mine would be too valuable...

A couple of friends had exactly the same issue. Their 2-year-old son slipped and briefly fell face-first against the heating stove door with a glass insert. Unfortunately, he also tried to break his fall with his hands.
The consequences of that are something the writers above apparently can’t imagine. When the child looks in the mirror, he will be reminded of it for life.
Of course, it can be overdone, and yes, it might happen only 1 in 1000 times. But when it does happen, it quickly turns into… Well, we should have thought about a small door or a safety gate or something like that. I wasn’t raised in an overprotective way either, but accidents do happen, and most of them turn out alright.
Still, thanks of course for the useful advice…?

You already mentioned it yourself. Accidents do happen, but thankfully they are very rare.
There won’t be a perfect solution for this. You’ll probably just have to install a guard or railing around it. I don’t see any other solution.
But as I said, you can minimize risks, but you can’t completely eliminate them.