Baby : Evenflo Top of Stair Gate

Rating: - the best gate, the best price
I believe I reviewed this product the last time I bought 3 of them. Well, I bought another- yes, it is that good.
The gate is unstained wood- you can stay or paint any color to match your decor. Very simple in decision, cannot be climbed or opened by child. Unless you're an idiot it's not hard to open (I have 2 relatives who can't seem to open it, but they can't figure out a TV remote either).
We have these gates on either opening to family room, and at top and bottom of stairs. Very secure, I have no concerns about its' safety at all. My son (now almost 2) stands on the bottom bar of all of these gates and shakes them- atleast once a day each. The first 3 I purchased we have had up for about a year and they still work as well as they did the day we bought them.
I HIGHLY recommend!

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Rating: - Good looking, easy gate
Easy install, easy to use. Like the natural wood look. Easy to remove completely off hinges if you want. Overall a great safety gate.

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Rating: - decent gate
overall, a good gate. beware when installing if you have baseboards on both sides of the stairs. the slot where the gate locks at the bottom requires more room than the hinges on the other side.

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Rating: - Great product and great value!
This is exactly what we were looking for. We needed a semi-permanent gate for the top of our stairs, and this product is secure and easy to install. The only issue we had was that our molding at the bottom of our walls is thicker than most, so we had to work around that. It sticks a little bit sometimes, but I think that's because we had that molding issue to deal with.

Great value and great product!

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Rating: - Do not buy this gate if...
...there is a baseboard where you want to mount it. The instructions that come with the gate state explicitly that the gate cannot be mounted because of the unevenness of the wall with a baseboard. This constraint is never mentioned in the advertising for the gate. Hopefully if you read this you will save the hassle and shipping/return costs.