Inclosure Around Stove

 Inclosure Around Stove 

The trick of the year 1910  which ensured the safety of the baby around the family furnace- in Europe called burzuika. This type of stove and furnace is very popular in Baltic countries and is built in as a part of a  standard heating systems in private houses of Scandinavian countries, as well in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bielorussia, Poland and Germany. The old nice burzhuika of 1910 has changed the name into the proud Scandinavian- Jotul. The design has almost never changed from those days.

To protect the precious baby from the hot stove Americans have used to built a pen around it. The movable inclosure  of the furnace consisted of four little gates made just around the stove as a fence which was large enough to surround the stove from all the four sides.The four gates were covered with wire netting, known to us as chicken wire. The latter fence. made of wire does not interfere with the free passage of heat to the house and is effective enough in preventing the child and a baby from getting the fingers and hands burned. 

The gates for your Scandinavian type furnace you can make yourself, as they are not found in the shopping malls as I know. They can be made of one and one fourth inch strips.- mortised and neatly fitted. For netting the ordinary poultry wire of two foot width is good enough to be used. The gates are held in place with simple sturdy hooks.

Hooks for this arrangement work better than hinges. It makes it easier to take down one gate for  sweeping or cleaning the stove, and it makes it a lot  quicker and easier.

 For this pen you will need to buy the lumber, the hooks and screw eyes , the wire netting. Paint the fence  if desired.