Full home childproofing in Atlanta

What "full home childproofing" actually means

Full home childproofing is a walkthrough and install service that covers every hazard category in one visit. Instead of piecing together a gate here and a few locks there over six months, we assess the entire home at once and install everything your family needs in a single afternoon. Most Atlanta families do this the month before their baby starts crawling or the week they realize their toddler has learned to open drawers.

The visit is built around five hazard categories that account for nearly every home injury to children under four: falls (stairs, windows, furniture), crush and tip-overs (dressers, TVs, bookshelves), poison access (cabinets, medications, cleaning supplies), pinch and impact (doors, drawers, sharp corners), and choking and strangulation (blind cords, small objects, cords within reach). We walk room by room and flag every specific instance in your home.

What a full install typically covers

A typical three-bedroom Atlanta home ends up with a mix of the following, installed in 3 to 5 hours:

• Hardware-mounted gates at the top and bottom of stairs, plus one or two at kitchen or bathroom entrances.
• Cabinet and drawer locks in the kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry closet for cleaning supplies, medications, knives, and heavy items.
• Anti-tip anchoring on every dresser, bookshelf, TV stand, and heavy freestanding piece in bedrooms and living areas.
• Outlet covers or replacement outlet plates on every outlet a child can reach.
• Corner and edge guards on sharp coffee tables, fireplace hearths, and furniture.
• Door lever locks on doors you want kept closed, plus door stops to prevent pinched fingers.
• Toilet lid locks and bathroom door locks where relevant.
• Window guards or stops on any window above the first floor that a child can reach.
• Blind cord wraps or cord cleats on every corded blind or shade in the house.

How the visit runs

We start with a free walk-through where we go room by room and note what you want handled. You get a written summary of the work and a list of products before we touch anything. Many families ask us to prioritize the most urgent items and phase the rest over two visits, especially in larger homes. That is completely fine.

On install day we bring everything: gates, locks, anchors, outlet plates, the tools, and enough extra hardware to handle surprises. You do not need to buy anything ahead of time. When we are done, we walk the house with you, demonstrate every product, hand you a written record of what was installed and where, and make sure every adult in the household knows how everything works.

Older homes vs. new builds: different problems

Atlanta has one of the most varied housing stocks of any city in the Southeast. That variety matters for childproofing. A 1920s Craftsman bungalow in Virginia-Highland has plaster walls, narrow stairs, and almost no outlet coverage. A 1960s split-level in Sandy Springs has two flights of stairs and a daylight basement. A new infill build in Brookhaven has wide open-concept rooms that need extra-wide gates and more anchor points because there are fewer interior walls to block off rooms.

We know these patterns because we work in all of them. The house-specific stuff is what saves you from buying three wrong gates before you find one that fits.

Grandparent childproofing, rentals, and short-term setups

Full home childproofing is not just for primary residences. Common variants we run into:

• Grandparent houses. Targeted install focused on the rooms where grandkids will spend time. Usually the kitchen, one bathroom, one bedroom, and any stair the grandchild might reach.
• Rentals. We use adhesive locks, pressure gates where safe, and damage-free mounting wherever possible. See the cabinet locks page for the full list of rental-friendly options.
• Vacation homes or Airbnbs used part-time for family visits. Same approach as grandparent homes, just with a focus on what can be removed or hidden between guest groups.

When to schedule

The best window to childproof your house is the third trimester, before the baby is born, so the work is done before you are sleep-deprived. Second-best is the month your child starts pulling up to stand, which is usually around 8 months. After that, every week of delay is a week of adult supervision filling in for the safety gear you do not have yet. It is never too late, and we regularly handle homes with 2 and 3 year olds where the family finally decided to get it done in one visit instead of piecing it together forever.