Child Proofing Elevator in Loft

Do you have a gate or interior door? I don't have children, but others in my building that do put a self-closing hinge and a self-locking clasp on the interior gate.

Socks over hands secured by duct tape.

If you love something, set it free.

You need something to keep the kid from getting too close to the elevator button, like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Duty-Playpen-Exercise-Fence/dp/B003XTYN4Y Not sure if this is the exact one that will work, but it's that kind of idea.

The panels usually don't have to be connected in circle to stand up, so you can block off the area with a U shape, the open end at the elevator. It's a pain for adults, they have to step over or slide over the panels, but it works.

i have researched this for you intensively for exactly 10 minutes, and you are right, there no direct solution for your problem. can you put a regulat baby gate in that door way? it would be a pain for someone coming home and bumping into it, but that's one thing. you could put one of these around the doorway

http://www.totsafe.com/proddetail.asp?prod=2700&cat=22

and then this picture gave me the idea that you could mount, like, a lock box with no back over the button.

http://www.kidsafeinc.com/product/S322/S322---KidCo-Stove-Guard-for-Kids.html

anyway, good luck, i'm sure someone in the building would stop your kids before they got all the way outside. tip your building staff!

A hinged, spring-loaded plexiglass plate over the buttons would probably to the job.

my clients put up baby gates.

ali r.
DG Neary Realty

Have you tried using a switch? Birch works very well.

But seriously, folks, you can tap into the circuit and just wire an on-off switch, mounted higher up on the door frame, to disable the button ... or tap into the circuit, bypass the existing button, and install a new button higher up on the door frame.

Have you tried a nanny?

Rich people who have their own personal elevators opening directly into their apartments generally can afford nannies.

Because I am a creative problem solver;

http://www.amazon.com/9110-Thermostat-Protector-Lock-Polycarbonate/dp/B0015Q7XS0

No rewiring, no trippy gate, just screw a thermostat cover into the wall. Consider doing it with the lock on top, and it'll take longer for him to grow tall enough to open it. You'll have moved by then.

needsadvice, that's 999.99 inches wide ... do you really think it'll fit on the elevator door frame?

Why not just cover the button itself?

@ ALAN; It's to cover the button

Sigh . . .

@SOMEWHEREELSE: The link I posted is a device to cover the button.

Sigh . . .

A thermostat cover is a very common item and can be found at various sites online.

For some reason I now want to have a T-shirt made that says "Cover the Button".

Picture it.

It would be cool and you know it.

I think if you built a box similar to a shoe box with the only open part being the part that is aimed at the ceiling it would work. It would be tough for you to reach down from the top into it but it should keep them from reaching the button. You could even angle the part and make it look more like a garbage chute.

retina scan

don't laugh, but i brought this up to my mom posse at the playground yesterday, and the consensus was the same idea as axle's. a box with no back and no top, you reach into it to press the button.