[Closed] Greenhouse safety and kids.

Option 1: Change the lower panes to perspex.
Option 2: Get rid of the kid.

Thousands of kids have survived being in gardens with greenhouses.

Make the greenhouse out of bounds to her, put up some mesh fencing to reinforce the point maybe?

Option 3 - send the greenhouse to be re homed

Or Option 4 - tell the kid not to go near it. They are 5 yrs old.

Dig a border round the greenhouse and plant some shrubs. Worked for ours.

Just shorten her chain?

Put some wooden "rails" round the bottom, old pallet stuff would do. Think you're right to be a bit concerned. Re: telling them not to do it, if we had greenhouse and I told my 6 yr old not to go near it he would view that very much as a challenge and would interpret "near" as "through"

Sustained more injuries from the bamboo plant at my parents than the greenhouse located next to what we thought was a great drop-off.

For as long as I remember we grew up with a greenhouse in the garden. Remember getting loads of injuries in the garden but never from the greenhouse. We were more likely to sustain an injury when our dad found out we have busted another pane of glass.

I fell through my parents' greenhouse when o was about 6. My mum thought I was going to die, there was so much blood. And an ex girlfriend of mine lost her best mate to a greenhouse - she fell through it, wasn't too badly injured but got glass in her blood which poisoned her and she died.

I'd probably change some of it to perspex, or accept that the risk of the two things above happening is very small.

You could put an adhesive film on the accessible panes to reduce the likelihood of breakage.

if we had greenhouse and I told my 6 yr old not to go near it he would view that very much as a challenge and would interpret “near” as “through”

Either I was a weird kid or my parents were weird in how they raised me

Thousands of kids have survived being in gardens with greenhouses.

Confirmation bias. You only hear from the survivors.

Confirmation bias. You only hear from the survivors.

Fair point, well made

Toughened safety glass is very difficult to smash. I usually find a couple of small birds that have managed to kill themselves by bashing into the glass every year and the neighbours large cat jumps on the roof.

Try not to worry and if the kids are like magnets to it then maybe a small rail / fence.

As said above biggest danger was my dad finding out I smashed the glass seeing how far I could throw a stone.

Not far enough was the answer.

Move the trampoline into the front garden.

Can’t help, but I once destroyed two panes of glass in a neighbours greenhouse by firing orange peel at it with a Diablo catapult. That thing was brilliant and could turn anything in to a lethal projectile.

As mentioned above - self adhesive film on the outside of the low-level panes.

There's products specifically for this.

I used some on a framed artwork that was going into a community centre once.

Safety film

Either that or replace each pane with plywood and call it a shed.

Had a greenhouse in our garden as a kid. Never hurt me though it used to drive my dad nuts when a wayward random object broke greenhouse windows on multiple occasions throughout our childhood.