KidCoG2000 Safeway Top of Stairs Quick Release Baby Gate for Blocking Stairs or Hallways and Dividing Rooms, 42.5 x 30.5 Inches, Steel, White

This gate made me SO HAPPY.The heading is a little misleading, though. My dog's name wasn't Houdini, and he had already destroyed everything in my bedroom. Which is why I bought the gate.This gate kept the persistent little bugger out. He tried all his tricks--bashing one corner repeatedly with all his weight, trying to sneak under, climb over, or simply vaporize through the bars and miraculously appear on the other side, ready to disembowel another comforter or pillow.He looked SO SAD when he couldn't get through. Foiled at last!

My likes: no tension fit, no step over bar on the floor, secured to walls. This gate does take much more time to install, you need to put screws into the wall. They include a template to make mounting about as easy as they can, but it definitely takes more time to install than the tension fit gates. It’s a lot more stable, though. The 2 year old pulled a tension gate down. This one stays put. This one was a larger gate as well, our opening was the maximum width listed for other products. I was unable to use them, they wouldn’t quite span the opening. This one is wider. It works smoothly and shuts securely. One thing was that the open gate tends to swing out and come to rest partially blocking the hall. I put a “cow magnet” in a wooden block and attached that to the wall. A cow magnet is relatively large and not too strong. You do not want to use small or ultra strong magnets around children. Besides being choke hazards, 2 strong swallowed magnets can stick together inside a child pinching intestine. The strong magnets pinch off the blood supply to the trapped tissue and the pinched then perforates requiring emergent life saving surgery. The cow magnet is too big to swallow and it is strong enough to secure the gate open without exposing the child to the hazards of the strong magnets. Cow magnets are used for cattle, they sit in the stomach and then trap bits of swallowed iron/steel such as staples and nails.

Aside from the instructions to put together the gate, throw them away. Take the assembled gate, line it up on the wall and mark the hinge points. Put holes in the wall and secure the hinge side of gate, then line up the opposite side in the exact same way and mark wall, then put screw in. SO much easier than trying to use their template, trust me.The gate is great and sturdy, but as other reviewers have mentioned, the clip that locks down the spring and is the single secure point of the gate preventing the entire thing from coming apart, breaks very easily and does not stay secure. Screwing it to wall or gluing it (although this will prevent you from removing the gate temporarily) is the pretty much only way to ensure it doesn't pop-off and come un-done.I would recommend it all things considered.

I had been using a cheap baby gate for years for my 2 boxers. I wanted something to install so I could open and close when I wanted and not hassle with the tension brackets. The dogs have their own bedroom and I needed to keep them in their room during the day so they didn't set off the alarm. You do have to be patient when installing but I also didn't install just like the instructions because I wanted it to lay flat against the wall when not in use. I cant say how study it is because they are trained not to jump on it but it feels sturdy. I simply added a strip of velcro to the baseboard to hold it flat against the wall. Works well for my use.

Liked the metal design and ability to swing both ways without the stopper since I was using it in a hallway. However, it was difficult to install level and even on both sides. After installing it twice now to get it straighter (still not straight) it is now having the inner railings fall out due to poor welds. The circular plastic “knob” used as a latching device has also broken after one hard close my an older child. I have only had it for 4 months. Took a month to get around to installing it. Had it up for one month, down for a month, and back up for another month. Gets lots of daily use, but still should not be breaking with only 2 months use. Very disappointed in the product and now the several holes in my walls I’ll have to fill soo I can install a different one.