We had to put up a gate for the stairs, never bothered with the stove. They still won't do anything with the stove now and the oldest is 14, youngest 6.
I always like the look of black iron around a hearth it looks rustic. That would be a knee breaker around my house though.
I remember taking the gates down from both our woodstoves (only source of heat at the time before the pellet stove furnace thing), what a celebration!!! And yep Pallet Pete I was using our plastic baby gate to support me while stoking it 2 am one morning during that -37* F spell a couple years ago via my knees leaning on it and it gave way, fractured a rib as I went down with an armful of wood and doing my best to avoid a faceplant into the hot stove
They should put ( Not safe for adults over 18 when dogs are in vicinity ) On those plastic ones! Dang near killed myself on one when the dog ran into it and sent me flying down the stairs at my friends house.
I was laughing when it happened too. Well after I woke up and popped my shoulder back in then I was laughing.... The dog hid for a couple hours and the gate went from being an anti child gate to a badly designed sled full of aeration holes and then a pile of broken plastic death splinters. No beer either!
No accidents here, thankfully for child, dog, or grown up. Already found a home for it, my brother in law has a baby on the way and they have a pellet stove.
