Recessed door knobs

Posted by ransley on October 11, 2009, 11:43 am

> I've got a little one who is just about at the right height to whack her
> head on a protruding door knob. =A0There is nothing I can do to change th=

> swing of the door to put the door knob inside the jam.
> I thought there might be something like a recessed door opener latch or
> something like that but can't seem to find anything. =A0Any ideas?? =A0Th=

anks.

You need to be safe, get a Kiddy Bubble, keeps kids safe from all of
lifes ills. You lock em in and open it in 15 years. Or just get a
helmet, thats what they were designed for, doors, falling down, and
falling pots and pans, and keeping your kids head out of the toilet,
get a full face one they save the teeth and keep kids from getting an
eyefull of knob. A door knob recessed in a kids eyesocket or mouth is
an unpleasant site, been there done that. Dont forget shoulder, elbow,
arm, and knee pads. Be safe.

Posted by cshenk on October 11, 2009, 11:48 am

"Jack" wrote

LOL! This too shall pass ;-) Meantime, they make safety covers that are
padded with an internal rubber grip (so they dont slip when you open the
door).

I know what *we* did. We had 1 doorknob that was located where Charlotte
would whack herself if she ran down the hall. We had those little
inflatable arm things for beginning swimmers. We put one over it and blew
it up nice and tight. Worked fine. Lasted the whole time too until she was
old enough it wasnt needed.

BTW, you may want to do the same to the tub spigot at that age. They even
sell cute ones just for that or can use the other swimmer arm blowup
thingie.

Posted by cshenk on October 11, 2009, 12:10 pm

"Jack" wrote

Heheh I'm a little suprised at some of the replies. I do not think it's a
bad thing if you have a particular trouble spot to cover it for a bit.

To flesh out ours, it was a protruding *glass* knob right at eyeball height
and on the hallway bathroom door. Other knobs matched it but were not in
problematic locations. This was definately a case of better safe than
sorry. Sure, we could have replaced that knob, but instead we just put
something over it which made it both safer *if* she hit it, and more visible
so she wouldnt.

Other things we did may seem insane to some here, made sense to *us*. Book
cases (I have over 3,000 books) got bolted to the walls. I generally have
6-7ft tall ones filled to the brim. Charlotte was a climber and so were the
cats. We bolted the wicker ones before Charlotte was born due to cats
pulling them down (fortunately they were not harmed, just scared a little).
When Charlotte hit crawling age, we bolted the rest. After she was walking,
if she pulled books out on her head, it was more of a 'see Charlotte, that
wasnt smart' but she couldnt pull a 100lb or so (adding books to the shelf
weight) onto herself.

Posted by mm on October 11, 2009, 2:36 pm

>I've got a little one who is just about at the right height to whack her
>head on a protruding door knob. There is nothing I can do to change the
>swing of the door to put the door knob inside the jam.
>I thought there might be something like a recessed door opener latch or
>something like that but can't seem to find anything. Any ideas?? Thanks.
>

It used to be that, supposedly, whenever anyone had a black eye and
didn't want to say where he got it it, he'd say he walked into a
doorknob. It was meant to be obviously a made-up answer, because no
one could get a black eye that way. I haven't heard this expression
for decades.

But when I was 9 or 10, at my grandmother's house, I tripped just
before I got to an interior door, fell into the doorknob and got a
black eye. Since I was fallng, I probably hit it a lot harder than
your kid would and I only got a black eye.

Posted by The Daring Dufas on October 11, 2009, 4:04 pm

Jack wrote:

> I've got a little one who is just about at the right height to whack her
> head on a protruding door knob. There is nothing I can do to change the
> swing of the door to put the door knob inside the jam.
>
> I thought there might be something like a recessed door opener latch or
> something like that but can't seem to find anything. Any ideas?? Thanks.
>
>

I have a problem with toddlers running into my knees.
When the little tykes start zooming around with their
little arms in the air like a crazed Orangutan, they
will invariably run into one of my knees. BAM! they
fall on their rump and start screaming, it rips my
heart out that one of my little friends was hurt because
of me. Perhaps I should get some thick pads to cover
my legs when I'm around munchkins. The hockey goalie
pads might work. Then there is that overhead smash to the
groin that toddlers are famous for.

TDD

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