Baby Safety Gates

suggestions for a baby gate?

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:57:34 +0000

I have a 7 month old baby who is started to become mobile, he will be fully crawling in just a few weeks. our upstairs will be the play room area but our stair case is very wide, and a normal baby gate does not fit it, also our house is very colonial house and i dont think a plastic one would look so great, any suggestions where i would get one?

Check out Kid co. they have all sorts of different gates.

Any suggestions for a top of the stairs baby gate that there isn’t anything to drill it into?

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:50:15 +0000

We have railings at the top of the stairs and I bought the kidco no drill baby gate installation kits and a baby gate but it turns out my railings aren’t straight across and the way they are placed it won’t work to put a baby gate on. I am in desperate need to put a gate in front of these stairs as the second I set my son down he goes straight for the stairs… has anyone had this problem with gates? Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could put in front of the stairs that would work just as good?!
The Kidco no drill kit works perfect for our other railing to attach the gate to… but our stairs going down the 2 posts for the railing aren’t straight across so the gate would be going diagonal and I don’t think the latches will work then so I’m wondering if there is some other type of gate I can put there that it wont matter if it is diagonal

(a) Install 2 additional, upright ‘posts’ to your existing railing to accommodate the baby gate.
(b) Just install the baby gate to nearest the doorway and prevent your baby from getting near the stairway.

Baby Safety gate for against banister?

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:53:18 +0000

I am looking for a GOOD! safety gate that I can use for my stairs, I have a banister so it would have to go against that, I would prefer to have one that DOESNT ruin the banister nd wall, but I want to make sure that if my son pushes against it, it wont fall over.
It needs to be able to open because I cant climb over top of it

thank you so much!!

At the top of stairs, a pressure-closed gate is not adequate. It will eventually given way, leading to a big tumble down the stairs. There are gates with "gate door" in them, with a handle to lift while pushing a release button. If your stairway is not near standard size, (ours is 23", no gate fits), there is a gate which is kind of like a window shade turned sideways, with a latch to keep it in place. Pricey, but it did work well.

how can i baby-proof cabinets that were built in the 70’s?

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:54:37 +0000

i have a 13 month old and he gets into everything so we’re trying to baby proof. but our house was built some time ago, and the cabinets just slide left to riight and are wooden. they have little holes to open them with but thats pretty much it. i’m not sure how to keep this closed to what child proofing tool could be used here. ALSO our living room has a huge gap, and i cant seem to find a baby gate long enough to stretch, its probably 10+ feet wide. please any ideas??

Well, first of all, the first answer was kind of mean

I think you should get some velcro and use it on the back of the "sliders" to stop it from sliding easily. Or you could get some eye hooks (like the ones some people use on screen doors).

As far as the gates, we have the same problem and I think we are going to get those really long ones. I don’t think we have many options!

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Aluminum or wood childrens swing gate?

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:54:15 +0000

I am struggling to find kiddy gate that doesn’t rely on pressure to keep it up, I have a dream baby gate and I am constantly tightning it up as one side of it is on a railing that has a little moment in it. I am looking for a pre fabricated aluminum gate that I can screw to the wall and swing on hinges. It looks like Dream Baby have a monopoly on the Australian market, all of the baby stores I have checked and Bunnings stock them exclusively. Kmart and Big W have different brands but there still work the same.

My only other option is to go to a metal fabricator and get one made but I would of thought that there has to be something generally available.

I found two US companies that make suitable gates (Evenflo and Kidco) but I can’t find Aussie distributors

Thanks

Aluminum , WOOD SPLINTERS!

What is the best baby gate for top of stairs?

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:17:19 +0000

I just bought the Safety 1st Perfect fit, it’s wall mounted on top of my stairs and I don’t trust it. Also every time you open it you have to readjust it loosing its one hand open feature. Please share your experience.
Thank you!
@barfly: So I should teach my 9m old (and walking) not to fall down the stairs and yet make sure the cabinets are locked? Sorry, a gate is a must. Anybody with kids have any suggestions?

I have Dreambaby gates and love them. They’re metal and come in black or white. I have the standard size at the top of the stairs, and the extra-tall ones blocking access to the bottom of the stairs in the hallway. It takes a while to mount them properly, but the instructions are good and they’re strudy once mounted. They also swing closed automatically in both directions, though the click in kind of loud so I usually close them gently by hand. I ordered them online. They were more expensive than many gates, but totally worth it. You can open the gate easily with one hand.

You need to measure the space exactly, then buy any extensions you may need. The bottom and top of the space may be slightly different widths if you have a baseboard, but the mounting cups can screw out to different lengths. The more they’re screwed out, the less secure it is (thus the importance of getting extensions, if needed, rather than screwing out the mounting cups to the maximum). I wouldn’t trust any gate enough to lean against it at the top of the stairs, but ours has held firm every time we’ve bumped into it by accident, and it’s steady when my 13 month old daughter tries to shake the bars.

If someone stole Bill Gate’s sperm and then impregnated themselves with it and had a child..?

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:00:13 +0000

would that child be entitled to Bill Gate’s fortune, or part of it

I think they would get 100 shares of Microsoft.

Help buying stair gates please?

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:46:29 +0000

My 7 month old baby boy is starting to get a little bit mobile so we’ve decided it’s time for stair gates. To be honest, I’ve been putting it off because we seem to have a really awkward house.

For the stairs, we need extra wide gates and, preferably, with no bar along the bottom. I’ve been researching and have found one which is screwed into one wall but pressure fit to the other which does not have a bar. This sounds perfect for the bottom of the stair but I have 1 concern…. how can one side be pressure fit if there is no bar? surely the pressure fit side would need something against it to apply the pressure?

For the top of the stairs we need a pressure fit gate as we have spindles on the bannister and I need the Y shaped adaptors so again, the above gate would be great if I could be sure that the pressure fit would work.

Does anyone have one of these gates? If so, where did you get it and how does it work?

Thankyou in advance for your answers
I would change the spindles if I could but being on £123 a week for 9 months and, since the new PM has decided to increase VAT and reduce my tax credits, I’m trying to avoid that if I can!

Hi, we had similar problems in our house, needed 3 gates and ended up having to get a dog gate for one of the staircases, anyway…ours screw both sides and don’t have trip bars, they’re wooden ones by Lindam.

My main advice would be to be wary of pressure gates, we used to have one but it fell off suddenly in the middle of the night (after months of being fine), my friend’s one came off at the top of the stairs when her toddler jumped against it – cue one 2 year old in hospital with an arm broken in 3 places and a shattered cheekbone. Nasty. I do know others that use them just fine but screw them in properly if you can find a way!

Another thing that concerns me about the ‘fox’ story …….?

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:42:28 +0000

These twins are 9 months old, at the just about to start walking stage (if they hadnt already). Regardless, there would have been child-safety gates at the top and bottom of the stairs (since its already been reported that the children were sleeping UPSTAIRS).

Now you may argue that they left both of these gates open because the children were asleep, however I know that just out of habit, for my own peace of mind, even if my kid was asleep, I would close the gates behind me. Why? Because it takes all of two seconds, and in the unlikely event they did get out of the cot, at the very least they would only be on one level, not crawl/walk to the top of the stairs and then fall down. Plus its just a force of habit, you just get in the habit of always closing the gates, so that you dont accidentally ‘forget’ to do it one day with disasterous consequences.

So one of two things happened here:

The child gates were locked and somehow this fox managed to jump over both sets of gates (at the top and the bottom) without making a single sound (and how determined is that fox to get to some soiled nappies to be able to do that).

or the gates were open, which might be fine, but still seems to me to be playing a little fast and loose with their safety considering there is a 5 or 6 metre drop awaiting them ….
La Volpe – I totally agree with you on the count of all these neighbours all declaring it to be some epidemic, yet if that was the case why did the parents leave the door wide open and then leave both child safety gates open to allow the fox to get upstairs.

This would make them negligent. They can’t have it both ways. Either they were negligent because they knew there was a problem but did nothing to prevent the attack, or there was no problem in the first place which is why they never forsaw it.

But they can’t have it both ways.
Nice guy ………. babies don’t have to be at walking age to need babygates. Having one of your own, you should know how fast they can crawl along the ground at 9 months. Wouldnt take them long to get from one end of a room to the edge of the staircase.

A fox can jump very lightly. A gate would present very little obstacle. Foxes come over our six foot fences all the time. They’re very nimble and stealthy with it. The mistake people are making is thinking that foxes are nice – they’re not. They are renowned for causing terrible problems with lambs and chickens. They are vermin but some people think they’re cute, feed them and allow them to breed in their gardens. I wouldn’t breed rats but that’s what people do with foxes. There is no difference rat=vermin fox=vermin.

What age is acceptable to remove child safety gates on stairs?

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:16:47 +0000

My daughter is 3 years old and stays with her grandparents one night a month. They have a very tall staircase that has wood, no carpeting, and her room is upstairs, while they sleep downstairs. My mother thinks our daughter is old enough to not use the gate at the top of the stairs any longer, but my husband and I are concerned that she’s still a little wobbly (especially after just having woken up) and there is a danger there. I’ve looked online for any info but would like some feedback from others who might have a similar situation. The thought of her falling scares me to death. How do you know when a child is old enough not to need safety gates?

When she can go up and down the stairs consistently by herself without falling, she’s old enough to not use the gates. My niece is 3 and every time my sister thinks she no longer needs the gates, she ends up falling down the stairs.