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- From: Jeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Jeff Cook)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Hot water too hot
- Message-ID: <JEFF.COOK.93Jan21165137@pigpen.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:51:37 GMT
- References: <LOWRY.93Jan21110918@rotor.watson.ibm.com>
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- In-reply-to: lowry@watson.ibm.com's message of 21 Jan 93 16:09:18 GMT
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- In article <LOWRY.93Jan21110918@rotor.watson.ibm.com> lowry@watson.ibm.com (Andy Lowry) writes:
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- >I live in a cooperative apartment building, and the hot water from the
- >faucet is scaldingly hot. This concerns me because I fear my 16
- >month-old daughter will soon be able to reach and operate some
- >faucets, including the bathroom tub and sink faucets...
- >...if
- >there are reasonable steps I could take to make this hazard simply go
- >away in my apartment, I'd be interested in finding out about them...
-
- Although there is a danger with the sinks, your main concern should be
- the tub. It's likely that if she touches hot water coming out of the
- sink faucet, she'll reflexively pull away, limiting the injury. If
- she's in the tub, though, the situation could get serious very quickly.
-
- If your faucets have separate hot and cold knobs, you could try removing
- the screws that hold the hot-water knobs in place. That way you could
- pull the knobs off and put them out of her reach when you're not using
- them.
-
- If your faucets are the single-knob type, you might try shutting off the
- hot-water valve under the sinks, and keep her out of the bathroom with a
- gate or child-proof doorknob cover.
-
- (I've cross-posted this to misc.kids, because this discussion would be
- of interest to those readers as well.)
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