Refrigerator Lock (2-Pack)
Press, turn, open. Easy for you, a puzzle for small hands.
- Press and rotate to openThe slide button has to be pressed while the arm turns. Simple for an adult, two moves at once for a small child.
- No drillingStrong adhesive pads hold it on, so it goes on a rental fridge or brand-new cabinets without making a single hole.
- More than the fridgeFreezers, cabinets, drawers and sliding windows. The lock goes wherever a door at knee height needs to stay shut.
- Two in the packOne for the fridge and one for the cabinet under the sink, or wherever the second risky door is in your kitchen.
Why lock the fridge
Child-proofing is mostly about the doors at knee height.
Babyproofing starts with the obvious things, outlet covers and stair gates. Then a child figures out that doors open, and the list gets longer overnight. The fridge, the freezer drawer, the cabinet where the dishwasher tablets live, the window that slides. None of them were built with a two-year-old in mind, and most of them sit right at the height a toddler’s hand lands.
Most of those doors only need one thing: a step an adult does without thinking and a small child can’t put together yet. A press and a turn at the same time does that. It doesn’t need a key on a hook, and it doesn’t need a drill, which matters in a rental or in a kitchen you’ve just paid for.
The goal is a kitchen you don’t have to guard. The locks go on the handful of doors that matter, and everything else can stay open. When the kids outgrow them, you take them down and the doors go back to normal. Until then, you stop saying no to the fridge door all day long.
Lock the few doors that matter, and let the rest of the kitchen stay open.
One on the fridge. One where the cleaners live.
On a fridge or freezer, one part sticks to the door and the other to the side of the cabinet next to it, so the arm bridges the gap and holds the door shut. On a fridge with two doors that meet in the middle, it can bridge the two doors instead. Either way the seal stays closed and the milk stays where you put it.
The second lock is for the next door down the list. The cabinet under the sink, the drawer with the batteries and the scissors, or a sliding window a child can reach. On a window the lock keeps the sash from sliding open, and you open it the same way: press, rotate, slide.
Setup is clean, peel, press
Pick the spot with the door shut
Choose a place where one part sits on the door and the other on the frame or side next to it, with the arm able to reach across.
Clean both surfaces
Wipe both spots clean and dry, with no grease. Kitchen surfaces carry a film you can’t see, and adhesive holds best without it.
Peel and press
Peel the backing off each adhesive pad and press each part on firmly.
Let it set, then test
Give the adhesive time to bond before the first pull. Then press the slide button, rotate to open, and rotate back to lock.
Any home with a small child and a kitchen at their height
New walkers, curious preschoolers, a grandparent’s house where the kids visit on weekends, a rental where drilling isn’t an option. If a small child can reach the fridge handle or the cabinet under the sink, this is where to start. It is $13.99 for two locks, with no tools. If it doesn’t do what you just read, send it back inside 30 days. Shipping to the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand is free and tracked, and most orders arrive 1 to 3 weeks after ordering.
The lock covers the inside. The alarm covers the way in.
These locks keep small hands out of the fridge and stop a window from sliding open, but they do nothing about someone outside forcing a door or the glass. The TremShield Alarm sticks onto that door or window and fires a 125 dB siren the moment it’s forced, with no Wi-Fi and no subscription. One alarm is $29.99; six are $99, which is $16.50 per alarm (Save $80.94).
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