33 in. Banister and Stair Gate with Dual Installation Kit

The locking mechanism is sufficiently difficult to defeat a 3 year old. The lock must be squeezed up and down. It does the job and works where there is a banister on one side. Other stair gates must be screwed in on both sides. We bought this because it was available in the store. A better gate constructed of steel was available online but would have required 7 - 10 business days to arrive, which was too slow. The wood in the gate itself is a cheap, foreign wood. It is not oak or a similar strong wood. The hinge is drilled into the ends of the horizontal members of the gate. The thickness of the horizontal members are only about 1/8" on each side thicker than the diameter of the hinge component. In the photo I supplied, this weakness if the portion between my thumb and forefinger. This means that with a strong shove on the hinge side, this horizontal gate member will likely shatter. The straps work but the stiff material is not the best material and prevents a really snug fit around the banister. Wrapping a stiff strap around a square banister does not maximize the surface area contact between the strap and the banister, so the brackets are prone to slipping. The attachment brackets for the banister are supplied with adhesive pads. These pads are the type that probably would tear the paint off the banister. A better quality pad would be a high quality rubber like neoprene. The pad is thin, too. I kept the waxy paper on the pad because I anticipate adjusting the installation after a few days of use and do not want the pad to tear off the paint or tear apart and remain on the banister. This entire gate should have been designed so as to be removable without wrecking the banister finish. The adhesive pads make it impossible to adjust the height of the gate without destroying the pad. Once those pads are stuck you must tear them apart to move the gate up or down even a fraction of an inch. We have a wall on one side and a banister on the other, so I screwed the latch side to the wall and used all four provided straps on the hinge side. Again, the stiff straps do not fit well around the square top nor square bottom portion of our banister. The other two straps do not fit well around the round portions either. Overall, the construction is cheap. It works but it is cheaply built and needs improvement in the banister attachment brackets and straps. I am hoping this gate lasts for 2 years. For $89 we purchased a gate worth no more than $40. If the online gate also made for a bannister installation was available faster then we would not have purchased this one. I doubt this gate will last one year.

All installation supplies included, easy instructions and goes up in minutes and the quality is great.

If you need a gate to go between two banisters, this is the one. The bottom of my stairs is 46" wide and this worked. I didn't use the little foot on the bottom of it because of my setup, and it works just fine. I have a relatively new home with big square stair banisters. This hooked up well. When you open the gate, you slide the gate back away, then swing the gate away. It stuck a bit at first, so I oiled the gate with WD-40 and then wood polish oil - that helped - and the gates seems to be opening easier and easier as we use it. The gate has safely kept my 1 year old son from climbing the stairs. I really like this gate.

We love this gate! It is very secure to the banisters and we've never had any issue with our toddler or large dog budging this gate without having to drill any holes in the woodwork.

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Product was as advertised. The only issue was that it took opening three boxes to make one complete product. Each box was missing parts or included broken parts.

A fairly solid gate to keep an infant from going down the stairs. The finnish will get scratched as we expand and retract the size, but i think the wood looks better than the metal and plastic gates out there. We use the gate fully extended and it does stick a bit when extending it all the way... it requires some finesse and practice. Overall it accomplished our goal. Miunted to banister and a wall (stud). I did need to put my own holes thru the metal mounts to fit it correctly. Also, the included screws are cheap.

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