Extending Metal Safety Gate is available in Gates & Gate Extensions
The versatile and stylish 2-way opening Extending Metal Gate is designed to fit an opening from 62 cm to a massive 102 cm without the need for extensions. Easy to install, the quick release fittings allow the gate to be removed and replaced quickly and easily to suit your lifestyle. Once installed, the gate opens to create a wide walk-through area with no step over bar. The patented tilt and lift spring opening mechanism allows for easy and comfortable one handed opening. Top and bottom clamps secure panels into position and allow quick and easy width adjustment. The gate fixes directly to the wall and can be removed with a dual action release mechanism. Made from a strong steel construction. *NPD Retail Tracking 2010. Box Contains 1 x Safety Gate; 1 x Component Box; 1 x Set of Assembly Instructions
| Product Group | Baby Product |
| Color | White |
I bought four of these stair-gates / barriers. I believe the hinge design has changed very slightly since the version which may have altered the fitting process but otherwise the current product looks identical. We bought these to separate rooms without closing the doors - for ventilation, light & sound to pass around our apartment - we have no stairs to protect but the instructions for fitting them to stairways seemed clear enough.
The major advantage of this design is that it has an excellent range of width fittings - far more than most other products we looked at. As we live in a building with non-standard measurements these were a sure fit in the gaps we wanted to block. The gates come with a template to cut out & fix to the wall to aid alignment of the hinges & catches. Nice idea. I only used the template for the hinge side and then aligned the catches by eye, but the whole process from opening the box to having the gate fitted took me 15-20 minutes and I was in no...
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Some years ago, when my first grandchild came to stay for the first time, I purchased one of these gates and was most impressed with its simplicity of use and ease of removal from the hinge brackets when it wasn't required, as I remove the gate when my grandchildren are not visiting. That gate would have had five stars!
Recently I needed a second gate and, because I had been very pleased with the first gate, purchased another one. However, the design of the hinges and catches has changed considerably. The new hinge brackets are not so robust nor so secure on the wall as the earlier model and, instead of just lifting the gate away from the brackets as before, the gate has to be forcibly withdrawn from the brackets and then forcibly inserted to replace it. It seems to me that it won't be long before one of the brackets comes away with the gate!
One improvement is the placing of plastic buttons on the bolts that engage with the catches at the open end of the...
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