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Gate question

laurstarxlaurstarx member
edited October 2014 in March 2014 Moms
Hi ladies! Hope all is well with you and your babies :)

I have a gate question. My entryway from my front door to my living room has a thin iron I don't even know what to call it on one side and a wall in the other (see picture). Does anyone with something similar or a bigger brain than me have any idea what kind of gate to put there? A pressure gate won't work I don't think. And the railing thing ends a bit before the top so if I attach a gate there will still be a gap between the gate and the step. I'm sorry if none of this is making sense.

Eta: damn autocorrect correcting gate to hate

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Re: Gate question

  • alfriedeckalfriedeck member

    There are some animal gates that can make a 90 degree turn.  they are wall mounted for stability.  if you go to  drsfostersmith.com and search gets they will have a few.  I cant see the picture real well but looks like you might be able to get a gate behind the iron railing?  May not look great, but could work.

     

    Good luck

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  • zartistericazartisterica member
    I saw this the other day, maybe something similar? You could add an extension and then you could probably get a pressure gate depending on the stability of the extension.
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  • SurpriseAt39SurpriseAt39 member
    @laurstarx‌
    I find it interesting that the iron railing doesn't come all the way to the corner.

    Anyways, aside from that observation.
    I'm not sure I've seen anything that would work for that situation.
    I think I'd opt to install a post at the corner (sturdy one) to use a pressure-mount or adjustable gate.

    We have an odd set up too.
    The previous residents put the baby gate up 4 steps (which they took, despite the rule here that if its 'mounted' it stays). We didn't like that because baby can still climb up 3 steps then fall down to ceramic tile.
    DH is handy, so we designed a gate and made it ourselves.

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    Top left shows where the paint peeled when they removed the gate.
    Top right shows the triangle piece of step that sticks out.
    Bottom left is custom gate. It latches with a locking eye hook.
    Bottom right shows it can be stored against the wall when not needed by using another hook.

    DS1 is really great at the stairs now, so it doesn't get used much, but sometimes while I'm feeding LO he decides he wants to go up and down, so I use it then.

    Maybe this will inspire something that will work for you. We actually had a lot of scraps of wood laying around that worked perfectly, but if we had to buy it all, we figured this gate would cost $60-70. (Including the paint, hardware, wood and time)
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