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Our home inspection checklist says that the medicine cabinet needs to be locked and the knives need to be locked or in "safe storage". We do not have a lockable medicine cabinet - most of our meds are currently in the kitchen cabinet with a few in the medicine cabinet in the master bath. But it's a regular cabinet with a mirror door - definitely not lockable. Where do you keep your meds? Also, as for the knives, I'm thinking of a cabinet over the cook top that I can barely reach when I stand on a step stool. I should think that would count as "safe storage".
Has anyone tried one of those [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Large-Smart-Guard-Medicine-Safe/dp/B0032S8PJU/ref=sr_1_1?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1306701428&sr=1-1"]lockable medicine chests[/URL]?
They have very mixed reviews...
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For us we bought a plastic tool box and removed the tray for our medications. We use a luggage lock to lock the actual box and a separate cabinet lock for the door. It works very well for us.
As for the knives we have a knife block and put it on top of the fridge, he never said anything about butter knives so they are still in the drawer until someone says otherwise.
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Our meds are in a cabinent over the sink just with a child saftey cabinent latch and our knives are in a bottom cabinent with just a child saftey latch. Our knife block wouldnt fit in any other cabinent so the bottom one it went. So nothing is locked but a little kid cant get into it
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Meds: plastic lockable tool box. An older child with a knife could be in it in a minute -- but that's what the state says is OK.
My knives are on a shelf in the kitchen that's *easy* for me to reach. Middle shelf in upper cabinet. That was OK for the inspector. No way am I cooking and needing to hop on/off a step stool. But I was getting licensed for little children, ages 2-5.
Just ask the person doing the inspectino, or call up someone in the state and ask what are some acceptable options. Remember -- most of these people have "seen it all", they've worked in the part of DCF where they go into the truly horrifying homes. They just want the knives not to be down in a low drawer. (Yaknow, like they were in my parents' house... but it's different when getting licensed.)
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We put a padlock on our bathroom closet. We don't have a knife policy here...but we are off the list for kids with knife issues. Been there done that.
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We have a tool box with a lock that is inside a locked cabinet. Our knives are in the same cabinet. You can find all kinds of effective lockable latches that will attach to all kinds of cabinets at places like Lowes or Home Depot. They make a plastic kind with sticky backs.It doesn't have to be completely fool-proof. It just needs to be a deterant. We have a crock with a locking lid with a tiny lock on it for meds that need to be in the frig.
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We have all our meds in a locking file cabinet. It is easy and we had it on hand. knives have child safety lock along with chemicals. Nothing is kept under the bathroom sink but TP and the kitchen has a lock.
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We got a knife block that laid down instead of standing up, so it could fit in a drawer, then put Tot Locks on the drawer for the knives and one in the bathroom for the medicine cabinet. Again, it wouldn't keep older kids out, but works as a deterant and keeps the little ones out.
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Ditto on the lockable file cabinet. Our knives are still on the counter our SW didnt say anything about having to put those up they just wanted our meds locked up.
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we just put a bicycle type lock on one of our kitchen cabinets for the meds and a bicycle type lock on the cabinet under the sink with cleaners. knives were just put up high.
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