Baby & Toddler

Our toddler has posted two spoons and the TV remote through the balcony grill

juniper_badminton_8118

We are on the fourth floor. The gaps in the grill are wide enough for her hand, and she has discovered that things go through and disappear, which is apparently the best game there is. The remote landed in a planter on the first floor and the neighbour returned it, smiling. The spoons we never found. What did you put along the bottom of your grill? Netting, acrylic, something else? We rent, so anything that doesn't need drilling would be ideal.

4 comments

  • maple_paper_555

    mine dropped my car keys from the fifth floor at about that age. we put a clear acrylic sheet along the bottom half of the grill, tied on with cable ties, no drilling. the landlord didn't notice for two years

    • juniper_badminton_8118

      Cable ties is exactly what I needed to hear. Did the acrylic hold up through the rains, or go cloudy after a while?

  • fern_pigeon_3414

    Check what's under your balcony as well. Ours was over the parking, and one day a steel tumbler landed on a neighbour's car bonnet. That conversation cost more than the netting.

  • bronze_diary_2872

    ours prefers the toilet. three toothbrushes and a sock this month. pick your poison

  • maple_balcony_8145

    Fine-mesh balcony net works too and costs less than acrylic, tied on, no drilling. Make sure it's the fine kind though. Bird netting has gaps a spoon goes straight through, which we found out the hard way.

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