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49 of 51 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent product May 25, 2007
By macpinballnut
Very happy with this purchase. Very sturdy, high-quality construction. Gate closes nicely and tightly with a nice click reminiscent of the way a well designed car door thunks shut. Gate swings open either way, which is nice. Happy with the way the wall is protected with the cups that are provided. No problems after having been up the last few months. Would definitely buy again - we have two of them and are very pleased.
36 of 37 found the following review helpful:
The perfect gate at the perfect price! Feb 06, 2009
By Lisa K.
"Preemie Mom"
When we were looking for a bottom of the stairs gate we had quite a long list of what exactly we needed. This gate had it all!! The bottom of the wall by our stairs has a large molding so we needed a pressure mount gate that did not need the top width and the bottom width to be the same. We needed something strong enough to keep our soon to be 1 year old from going up the stairs but easy enough for our 3 and 5 year old to open by themselves. We also needed something that closed and locked by itself so we wouldn't have to worry if the older 2 kids remembered to lock the gate behind them. And last, but not least, we needed something affordable.
Our banister is wrought iron and fairly thin so we also ended up getting a plank of wood and some zip ties to make the gate more sturdy. We also needed to use both extensions which came with it. It was extremely easy to install and took a matter of minutes.
I could not be happier. This gate is everything we asked for and more... It's very easy to open, even with 1 hand, the older kids can use it easily and yet it closes and locks behind them like we wanted. The price as perfect, and best of all, the baby can't budge it even when he pushes and shoves his hardest.
35 of 37 found the following review helpful:
5 star product Jan 08, 2009
By Nazira Abdukhalilova
We bought this gate for our 1 year old boy and installed it as a kitchen door. Even though our baby wasn't very much happy about this "present", we feel he is much in safe than it was before (he used to rush into the kitchen and push all "push"able buttons and turn all "turn"able things he could see).
This gate is great because:
- It looks good
- Made of metal and looks like will last for a long time
- Easy and clean (no screws, no hammer, pressure mounted) installation
- Clever childproof locking mechanism that doesn't annoy adults to open it frequently (you have to use both button on the top of the gate and pull the door UP to open it, my kid tried to open it lots of time with no luck)
- Door has a mechanism that closes right after you release it (so, just open it, walk in/out and don't worry about if the door was locked after you, it will)
It comes with two extensions, which I didn't use.
The only thing I'd ask for is it would be nice to have a feature that prevents locking the door automatically. When baby is not at home, it doesn't need to be locked.
Don't know how the other products do, but this one I'd recommend for sure.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Doesn't last as long as you would like Sep 08, 2007
By K. D. Olsen
I really like the look of this gate. At first I would have rated it a 5, but with only 4 months use, our two year old was able to break the latch device on the bottom. Now one gate swings freely, and the other we have swings freely in one direction. Also, even though I tightened the gate as tight as humanly possible, the upper latch never really catches with all of the work being done by the now worthless lower latch. When it worked, it was nice, but no longer.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Operation of this gate is a dream Aug 07, 2010
By Citizen John
This particular baby security gate is ideal for many areas where one would want a safety gate. It's quite strong as it's shipping weight of 15 pounds indicates. This is super-easy to install on "some" areas because it's pressure mounting style is intuitive and doesn't require many parts. I am currently using three of them (and two other different types as well).
2 Words of Caution:
1) This is probably not the best gate to install at top of stairs simply because you'd have to use screws and there aren't enough screw holes (just one for top and one for bottom on each side, and you'd really need twice that).
2) The pressure mount is not designed for most situations where there is molding. For example, if you've got molding along the wall such that the little round parts that touch the wall cannot be flush, or if you've got molding on your bannister such that the round parts that attach there cannot be flush. Whereas the instructions say you have to have this gate touching the floor, there are places where you can get away with having it slightly above the floor. But decorative molding may make this gate too difficult to install without getting creative with well-cut pieces of wood or some other creative method.
The included extentions:
Dreambaby sells this product on Amazon with the extensions included, one for each side (you're not supposed to use two on one side although some people have done so with success). Whereas you're paying for the extension (nothing is free), it is a convenience especially when you see what all the gate marketers charge for an extension separately. As I mentioned, I have 3 of these particular gates installed. I used one extension on two of them and two on one of them. I cannot imagine what a pain it would have been to order the extensions separately. Of course, that means I have two extra extensions that I don't need.
The operation of this gate:
I love it. It's better than my other gates. The door closes shut automatically when you open it even halfway and let go. Very convenient. After all, you have to go through the gate over and over again everyday, and you don't want to make this event an ordeal.
Top of stairs:
Oh, how I hated installing a gate for top of stairs. This is the most sensitive place to install a gate. That's because a baby can push on it and go down the stairs with it if it fails, God forbid. Here's my recommendation for top of stairs: KidCo Safeway Gate - White. Just as I found the Dreambaby gate the simplest and best for most uses, I found this one simplest for top of stairs. But installing it was more difficult and time-consuming that it would be to install many pressure mounted gates. It has two screws for each of the 4 contact points. Guess what? - You really have to throw away those screws because they're too short and insufficient. So you have to get your own appropriate screws. Moreover, this one doesn't close and "lock" automatically like the Dreambaby gate. Please see my review on it for tips regarding installing it (or other reviews that have good tips).
Conclusion:
The pressure mounted Dreambaby gate is near perfect for non-top of stairs uses providing that there is not decorative molding to interfere with installation. Inclusion of the extensions was a good idea even if it drove up the cost a little. Operation of the gate is a dream.
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