Hello fellow shoppers. I rarely get excited about a product when I leave a review but this is the exception. I was looking for a pet gate for our two furry friends and nothing really caught my attention. Thanks to the person who left a review about a gate she/he did not like and mentioned the North States pet gate. I did some more research and found it on Amazon, and purchased a "used like new" gate at significant savings. The gate arrived at 6:30 am, well before the 8 pm projected delivery time, delivered by the USPS. It was in an unopened box, protected by the shipping box. All the pieces were inside undamaged. Understand that the installation requires mounting the hardware the gate is attached to more or less permanently by drilling into drywall, or moulding on the bottom. There are two templates included for the top and bottom brackets on each side of the gate. These must be lined up exactly for the door to function properly. The reason for the four star rating is because the supplied screws are way to long and there were no drywall anchors included. I purchase some extra at Home Depot to ensure the mounting brackets stayed in the wall. I used the supplied screws to attach the bottom brackets to the floor moulding. The gate works as intended and will keep the little guys safe in a confined area when we leave the house. Oh, I forgot to mention the gate is metal, not wood or plastic. Hope this helps in your decision making. Read more

THE BEST FEATURE of this gate is it’s design— it fits across non-aligned walls (e.g. at the top of the stairs) and other angled spaces better that other gates that are also advertised as doing so. The entire length of the gate I intend to replace with this once must be swung open to go through it. This one has a conventional opening door flanked by sides that can be moved to the desired angles, so once it’s in place, it’s easy to open and close it.THE BIGGEST ISSUES with this gate are:(1) It states that it’s designed for a max toddler age of 2 years old, when it’s pretty common to want to guard against kids 3 years and older having access to the stairs;(2) it is designed to be installed only on walls that are flat where they meet the floor, so if you have any trim at the bottom of your wall, you’ll have to make some pretty big adjustments that aren’t part of the instructions; and(3) the instructions specifically state that it’s not intended to be installed into plaster walls.I plan to contact the manufacturer to see why they say not to use it with plaster walls (as my current gate is so installed using anchors), and how they came up with the child age limit. If I’m satisfied that these won’t be issues that ultimately impair the gate’s safe use, I plan to get to work figuring out how to cut/remove the trim where needed to finish installation. Read more

Seems this product has undergone some revisions and a lot of reviews are out of date. In short, the lower brackets can now be adjusted inward to accommodate installation in areas with base molding.To open you have to both push the button on top and flex the gate upward and off of a locking stud. So it’s pretty well toddler proof. If opened 90 degrees it stays open, otherwise gently springs closed.The bottom is all vinyl parts that glide smoothly on wood floors (no exposed screws or other sharp metal. Shouldn’t hurt your floor even though it flexes and moves around a bit. Soft wood floors might still have a problem... you’ll know if you have soft wood thoug because it’s already full of dents.The screws are still cheap so you might use longer and better ones and you better find studs to install into if not installing in a framed opening. As others mention, ignore the installation paper guide and install by placing the brackets on the gate and the gate against the wall while resting on the floor to mark the holes.It’s very attractive for what it is. Nice finish (powder coated? metal). We might keep it even after the kids grow up as it keeps the dogs away from our front door. Read more

OK, I am giving a bad review, not for the gate itself which lives up to its' reviews, but for the $*# screws they put in that you put in the wall! They are soft metal and too easily bend and the phillips-head screw head stripped out. We had to remove the screws because we had to adjust where we put them (our bad), but egads, that was a nightmare! My husband put in about 3-4 hours painfully trying to remove them, using pliers (they are very long!), sawing off part at one point in time. And replacing them with the wonderful wood screws that never mess up (and which should have been sent to begin with). I will put pictures that show bent, stripped screws and the type we used to replace. Just upset right now (and have another 5 that will be a problem no doubt in the future when we need to remove the fixture, not looking forward to it). Read more

Just installed this and it works great. I did need the 15" ext, but it all more or less worked as advertised. The only real issue I have so far is with the 2 stickers in Spanish on the rails which were not easy to remove, I had to scrape these of slowly with my fingernails and then cleaned with goo-off.Only other thing was that Amazon recommend by "Frequently bought together" some "wall saver for baby gates" which totally to not work with this product. A minor ~11 dollar loss, but not sure why Amazon recommends purchases for incompatible products.So far I recommend the product, but suggest you ignore the "Frequently bought together" advice for this. Read more