daughter caught her fingers in wind blown door

[misterroy]

There has been a few close calls, today was the closest. some tears but she's fine. What are the options to avoid it happening again?

ta

[dennis]

Gloves, slamstops (I think that's what they were called) from mother care. What type of door and which bit? The hinge end can take your fingers off if you are silly enough to put them there.

[Owain]

[misterroy]

luckily upvc door, little bit of give in the seal. I have seen her hold the frame at the hinge side to go out the door. "slamstops" is a googlewhack.

[misterroy]

ta, going to try these:

and on their way, unless there is anything better?

[Rod]

paid and on their way, unless there is anything better?

Just to check - you have a uPVC door and the link says "suitable for most household doors with wooden frame"? I *hope* they work for you.

[robgraham]

these:

paid and on their way, unless there is anything better?

Having looked at those I do just wonder if the packet of 6 very similar looking items form Ikea for a relatively few pence would be a damn sight cheaper. The Ikea ones are for stopping kitchen cabinet door slamming so should be much the same.

Rob

[The Natural Philosopher]

I got my fingers caught in a train door.

Once.

No more need be said.

[Dave Liquorice]

How old is daughter? The only proper solution is education and not putting fingers in door jambs anything else just delays the finding out the hard way that door jambs are not a place for fingers. Guards and stops are all well and good but not every door in the world fitted with 'em.

If she is fairly young todays experience will have taught her that. Might need a bit of gentle parental reminding of it if you see her fingers in a jamb again.

[Martin Bonner]

Arrange for her to catch her fingers in the latch side of the door. Given that even the stupidest human is a good deal brighter than a pigeon, or even a dog, she will then learn that closing doors can be

*painful* and should be avoided.

Until you have done this, you need to watch very carefully that she does not catch her fingers in the hinge side. (Although that will also teach the lesson, permanent digit loss is a rather high price to pay.)

[misterroy]

on the brighter side, digits are supposed to regrow under the age of

8, although I'm not keen to experiment. There are other wooden doors in the house, which can slam too, so at =A33 the pop, they are worth investigating.

[The Medway Handyman]

Sorry to highjack your thread, but what causes doors to slam when there is little wind? If our back door is open & the front is opened the front door will invariably slam shut after a while.

Some kind of pressure thing?

[Adrian]

misterroy gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

FFS, is she TRYING to lose her fingers? Surely it's a case of when you see her doing that, pulling her hand out and giving her a serious bollocking.

[Dave Liquorice]

Aye, it's called "good parenting"...

Though a gentle and carefully controlled demonstration (on her fingers) of what could happen together with a calm and caring explanation is probably better than "pulling her hand out and giving her a serious bollocking."

[Andy Hall]

... or something more dramatic with a carrot being chopped in two in the door.

[John]

If it was the hinge side than a slam stopper wouldn't prevent the problem as the damage could be done way before the door is closed. You need protection for the hinge side (seen in McDonalds toilets) A sort of plastic pleated guard.

[PeterMcC]

John wrote in

they do work - fitted as standard in many residential settings with folks who have disabilities, both learning and physical.

[The Medway Handyman]

...and immediately restored into one!

Sorry, wrong hat on....

[Andy Hall]

There's an amusing anecdote that was told to me at a Felder open day by somebody from a firm consulting in woodworking machinery safety.

He had been asked to give a demonstration of safety techniques in relation to spindle moulders to a group from the HSE. During the morning, one young lady kept standing really rather too close and in the wrong position for safety and was asked several times to stand further back, all to no avail.

During the lunch break, a carrot was purchased from the local market and secreted up the sleeve. Upon the next transgression by the young lady, the carrot was slid deftly into the spindle moulder, whereupon the latter operated rather like an open plan food processor, spraying her with shredded carrot.

So yes, a demonstration of consequences does seem to work better than repeated warnings.

[misterroy]

ordered a finger guard, and a carrot