Too expensive to forgive failings, 7 Dec. 2011

You see how the illustration shows this gate fitted to a wall without skirting boards? Ever seen a wall like that? No, me neither. We bought three of the previous model of which two have broken (the spring to refold it went), and this to replace one of those. Now that there's a long rail to hold the gate open it's made fixing it to a wall with a skirting board impossible where before it was merely unsatisfactory. It would cost them a few pence to include spacers for a variety of skirting widths, so to fail to do so is unforgivable. Instead they build a mock house for their marketing photos which overcomes the problem, and presumably expect mums and dads to make their own spacers (i.e. buy wood, cut it, prepare it, paint it, fit it, and attach gate fixings through it - a total drag.)OK when they work, but very annoying to install, very unattractive, and unreliable. Avoid.

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Excellent stair gate, 30 May 2015

Excellent stair gate. Fairly easy to install (only complicated by the need to put in a wooden baton as our newel post is curved). My 5 year old can operate it although my 3 year old can't yet.It's solid but discrete and ideal for our narrow landing at the top of the stairs.We had to install it closer to the top of the stairs than recommended (recommended is15cm, I think, and ours is no more than 5cm from the top step) but my very active 10 month old has not (yet) attempted to crawl under the stair gate and I don't think he will be able to.

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Large doors easy, 3 Feb. 2013

Great for spanning a larger gap and seems well built and the kids will find it hard to open as it has a timer lock system. However we also have dogs and they would destroy it easy.

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