We've got a combustion heater, and have seen some guards which look a bit like black play pens which you can put around the fire. I'm not sure how well they'd work at an open fire/fireplace (which is what I'm assuming yours is). We saw them at Barbeques Galore.
We have never had a guard around our wood heater and have never had any problems. The kids would go near it of course, kids are kids, but it was too hot for them so they left it alone.
My ssiter has a metal guard around her fire which gets really really hot. Her son burnt himself once on it and has never gone back to it. Another friend of mine used a playpen which she altered so it only has 3 sides and can fold up in summer. So I'd recommend using a wooden playpen instead of a metal fire guard.
Yep, I would recommend altering a wooden playpen too.
When we moved from up north to a colder climate in the middle of winter we had to organise a barrier asap and didn't have time to shop around to hubby ammended out wooden playpen to fit around the fireplace and it works really well as we can just step over it and it take it down in summer.
We've just bought a gas heater for the coming winter and I picked up another wooden playpen on sale at Target for about $85 to make another guard.
We are having a fireplace put in this winter and were looking at the screens over the weekend. I saw at BBQ's galore some really nice one's for $100 - $150. They looked really sturdy and were quite long too.
Hey Teddykins, I think they normally sell for around the $100 mark, saw em in Babyland for that and that is the usual price for the Target wooden playpen too, but I was lucky enough to be in the store on a sale day so got the good price... so I was just lucky.
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