Features:

  • Measures: 29.5" tall and 29.5" - 35" wide with the included (1) 2.75" extension (fits up to 54" wide with if additional extensions are purchased). Measure your desired opening prior to purchase to ensure a proper fit
  • Easy to use; simply push gate to close and lock
  • Dual-locking mechanism allows door to swing in both directions
  • Pressure-fit baby gate with hardware included for added safety
  • Includes (1) white Easy Close Safety Gate with (1) 2.75" extension to fit openings up to 35"; additional extensions are available for purchase on Amazon
Now this was an easy buy for me

Now this was an easy buy for me. My husband and I live in a townhouse. 3 floors unprotected with a nearly 2 year old running around and getting into everything, just about all the TIME! With the eventual potty training through the night, 2nd step to day potty training (at least for me) I wanted to make sure that if my 2 year old was to get out of bed in the middle of the night with no one being awake, he wouldn’t accidentally fall down a flight of stairs because he can’t reach the hall light just yet and let me tell you these gates were EXACTLY what I was looking for!! Now mind you, I did a lot of research before buying these gates especially for the hefty $44.99 price tag on Amazon.com. To save me money something I always recommended is if you are buying off of Amazon they have ”Other Sellers on Amazon" content. That provides you with a list of "other sellers" that want to re-sell the product they bought, whether they didn’t like it or they don’t use it anymore and even if they bought to many. This is an AMAZING tool! You can save a lot of money on something just by using this and still get free shipping if you have an amazon prime account. This is EXACTLY what I did. I bought 3 gates for $36.25 each a nearly $10 saving on each gate and I’ll take that. Whatever extra money is a deal for me! As far as the gates, the instructions were confusing but with this gate being such a popular item, you can easily look up a "how to install" on the internet. That is another source I recommend! Everyone knows that not all instructions are easy to follow and having the internet accessible makes life just a little bit easier. Back to the gates. After I watched the "how to" video it took me 6 minutes to put each one up, you have the option to screw them into the wall or not, my only issue is they came with 3m sticky tabs to make it "more secure" but they didn’t come with extra so as soon as you stuck them to the wall that’s its, no moving it, same with the drilling. Opening and closing the gates are exceptional, it’s a one handed, open both ways, swing the gate shut, no effort needed. Like I said EXCEPTIONAL!! I LOVE these gates!! They also come with one extender each. Now say your gap is wider than 35 Inches, if you bought multiple gates and you have one gap at 32" where you don’t need the extender, you can use the spare extender to add to the other gate. This actually happened in my house and it worked out nearly perfect. I still however need one more extender but that alone saved me a lot of money. I HIGHLY recommend this product whether new or used. On Amazon.com it got 4 out of 5 stars, even with the confusing instructions I’m giving this product 5 out of 5 stars for sure!

Great!

Oh boy, do I love these gates! Easily installed! And they DON'T screw into your door frame! Yay! We got these to confine our aging Shih Tzu in the kitchen-dining room when we're gone. She has accidents in her old age, and before The Gates, those accidents were on my (white) carpet in the garden room! Eeks! She's very content to be confined to the kitchen-dining room. CAUTION: since there's a bar across the bottom of the unit, about 1-1/2" from the floor, the first thing you'll do when crossing through the gate is TRIP and land flat on your face! PICK UP YOUR FEET! This little danger could be disastrous for a senior citizen with brittle bones. You'll only trip ONCE, but once is one too many times for an older person. I'd buy these gates again. They're VERY GOOD LOOKING, and high quality! Don't slam the gates shut. The latches seem like they wouldn't tolerate abuse. Who needs to try, eh?

I liked it so much, I bought a second one

I have two very determined small breed dogs who defeat most baby gates. Unfortunately, the areas where I need baby gates are high-traffic hallways, so I have to use gates with doors. I've tried a number of gates over the years, and most work well. There are three things that make me like this gate better than most. First, if you want to leave the gate open, this one will do so. It does NOT automatically swing shut, which I appreciate, as most of the time I'm home these gates are open. It will stay in place wherever you swing it to. Second, this gate opens in both directions, which makes life so much easier. Third, the open/close mechanism on the top is easy to use, but you have to push from the top and bottom of the latch at the same time. Easy for me to do, but impossible for my crafty dogs. Other gates that have a foot-activated spring have been defeated by my dogs, who learned to either hop on the base of the gate or paw at a lever. My dogs are both under 15 pounds, so they don't throw themselves at the gate, which is plenty sturdy. I don't have to screw the placement cups into the walls, which is nice, but I think if you had a bigger dog, this gate would hold them as well. I also appreciate that it comes in white, as they are less noticeable when open. I've only had these gates for a few weeks, so I don't know how they'll hold up (the locking mechanism is plastic, but seems strong), but so far I'm extremely happy. I gave it five stars overall, but four stars for sturdiness, because of the plastic lock.

Munchkin Easy-Close VS Auto-Close safety gates

For those of you who want to know what the difference is between the Easy-Close and the Auto-Close gate, here is a review. I own both gates and have used them both on the top of the stairs. I bought them both for different reasons and they each serve their purpose wonderfully. I highly recommend both but there are some differences between the two that you may need to research before settling on one that will work for you. EASY-CLOSE GATE: -To OPEN the Easy-Close gate, your thumb pushes the top button and the other fingers squeeze. - Very easy to open. My 5 year old can open the Easy-Close gate so it actually is pretty "easy". -To CLOSE the gate you must do the exact same thing as when you open it or else the gate will bounce back open. Even if you swing it closed it does not click into the fully locked position without you squeezing the handle and setting it into place again. (If you have an older child who can open the gate then they will also need to make sure to close it behind them or it'll just stay open). -This gate will stay wide open in whatever position you leave it which is great if you want it to (e.g. grandparent's house when the kids aren't around full-time, when you have a party, etc). The auto-close gate will not stay open. -Weight, style and overall bulk of both gates are similar. - Works well tension mounted on the top of the stairs. I was concerned about not hardware mounting this, especially at the top of the stairs but the tension is strong and both my husband and I can kick and pull the gate and it doesn't budge. The gate also includes hardware for mounting if you want to. - I have used the "KidCo Y-Spindles" for top of stair bannisters on one side and a wall on the other and it works just as well tension mounted. AUTO-CLOSE GATE: -To open the Auto-Close gate, your thumb slides a button on top of the gate, and unlike the easy-close gate, you must lift the entire door up and over a small plastic stopper on the bottom of the gate in order for it to open. - This is relatively easy to do and doesn't require much strength and more challenging for kids to maneuver. - I can easily lift the gate with a baby ora load of laundry in my arms on the top of the stairs without any trouble (I'm only 5'0'). - My 5 year old can slide the button but isn't tall enough or strong enough to do it while lifting the gate and probably won't be able to to until he's taller.) - If you want a gate that will keep both your big and little ones from going through then this will be a better/longer lasting choice for you than the Easy-Close gate. - No need to close this gate, it will swing closed behind you automatically. - When it slams shut it does make a loud bang noise but you can avoid this if you don't slam it or stop it just before it hits and close it quietly yourself. The Easy-Close gate is much quieter on its own but this one can be if you pay attention to it. -The auto-close feature is great for those of you who are concerned that you may forget to close the gate behind you. Convenient 1 step to open and close the gate. - If you want to keep the gate open more full time (e.g. house party, carrying things between rooms multiple times, etc) this may not be the gate for you. You'd have to prop it open somehow or tie it off with string to keep it from shutting on it's own. - Tension mounted on the top of the stairs works well and I'm paranoid about safety. Also comes with hardware mounting if you want. -Weight, style and overall bulk of both gates are similar.

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS! Not everyone does, they are very important.

I have a couple of these and I honestly think that the vast majority of the people who give them low ratings simply are not reading the instructions and are kind of dumb. The gate is a tension gate, so in it's free state - not installed in a doorway, it is going to be wide open with a V shaped gap This is how it creates the tension in the doorway. This is like a spring that you close up to hold it in place when you adjust the bolts to get the gate & it's frame parallel and close properly. Without this tension it will not stay in place. They are easy to install & use. One of my 2 did have a manufacturing defect though, where the bottom latch was not aligned with the socket it snaps into. I ended up taking the gate apart as I needed it that night and found that the hinge on the bottom was not actually fully seated home before it had been screwed into place. So I removed it, pushed it fully into place, drilled a new screw hole and put in a new, larger screw, as the old & new holes overlapped. It was literally 3mm out of alignment, but that was enough to make it not work. Now it works just fine and gets used repeatedly, daily, and has no issues. For the price, I wish I had found these earlier as I have tried a couple of other ones that I am not happy with, these are good value for the money, just read the instructions on how to install them & don't screw the bolts too tight or you won't close the gate. It is pretty easy to eyeball the gap until it is just right.

Excellent for cats.

I needed to stack two gates to block a doorway between two cats who don't get along. The first gates I purchased were the Carlson Extra-Tall Pressure-Mount Walk-Through Pet Gates. Excellent gate, except, one of my cats can squeeze through it. You also can't stack the two of them as they end of being too tall for a regular sized doorway. I kept one of the Carlson gates, and purchased the Munchkin brand to use on the bottom. In hindsight, I wish I had purchased two Munchkin gates. The cat can't get through the Munchkin gate, and the Munchkin handles are much easier to open. This means that with two stacked gates you can still use the doorway by opening both of the Munchkin gates. It's difficult to do this with the Carlson gate. In my house the room I've blocked off has another doorway, so I can still get through, however being able to open both gates when they are stacked is an important consideration when it is just one doorway.

Finally, the perfect gate

Finally. We went through six different gates that did not work. This one has it all. Easy to set up. Door locks when it shuts (very easy to close with hands full). Easy to open for the parent. Impossible for teeny tiny fingers to open (there is a button on top and bottom you pinch to open).

Great little gate.

Just installed it. The instructions are sad, youtube videos terrible, but it's pretty basic once you spend some time figuring out how it has to go together. The pads that contact the wall are attached to a big screw, with one nut on each. You set the spacing by moving nut on the screw. Once the gate is in place, and you've tightened the nuts by hand, you can use the supplied wrench to finish rotating the nuts, which secures the gate structure. This process of tightening the nuts will gradually bring together the latch, which is separated by about three inches when you open the box. There is one plastic piece that attaches to the bottom of the gate... when the gate is in the close position, you can swivel the extension on either side to lock the gate in place... you won't be able to open it, even if you unlock the gate handle at the top. Net, you have a double-lock system if you want or need it. I bought my gate for my dogs, so I won't use the locks, but I can see this being useful if you are using it for kids. You don't have to depress the top and bottom handles to close the gate, you can just pull it shut. Once closed, you have to depress the top and bottom controls to open it again. Simple, effective. Using thick wallpads I bought separately, I was able to install in a space 37 and 1/4 inches across... but it's very near the limit. I'm ordering a 5.5 inch spacer to replace the 2.75 inch spacer that comes with the gate (which works great, I just need something a bit bigger.) You can install as many spacers as you like, they all fit together, but I don't know how many you can add before losing structural stability. With the one short space it's very stable. The hardware is sturdy enough to apply significant pressure to your walls. If you're putting up the gate in between wall studs, you can screw in some end caps, or you might want to put a strip of something stiff against the wall, perhaps spongy on one side. My baseboard did shift a bit when I first tightened the gate (my bad for not thinking about this ahead of time), so I moved the gate an inch or so to where the baseboard support was better.

Quiet, Clean, Slim

We own two of these gates (one in brown and one in white). We use extensions on both of them and simply love them. They are quiet, sturdy, clean, and safe, most of all. They have withstood the pouncing of our 85lb lab, persistent toddler, and surprisingly strong baby. Our favorite feature: the one hand lift and lock is great! BUT, what's even better is the awesome locking clips at the foot. You can put one clip down to prevent the gate being pushed open, or one down to prevent it from being pulled down, or both two keep it from moving AT ALL. This is not a necessary step for everyday life, but those locks have come in handy when the toddler learns to open and shut the gate herself, or when the dog is DETERMINED to open the gate. So while bending down to lock and unlock the little clips is a pain, you ONLY have to that if it's a dire need. Otherwise, the hand lock works great and locks automatically when you swing it closed. Installation-wise, they are not complicated. They don't rub against your wall so you won't have excessive damage done (just the screw holes). They come with sticky pads but we don't recommend using them because they do tear up the drywall and are totally unnecessary for safely installing the gate. All in all, we love these gates and buy nothing except them! They are WELL worth the price.

sturdy, easy to install baby gate.

Best baby gate so far! so what makes a good gate? Easy to open with one hand, easy to mount, secure once mounted, flexible swing and opening direction, and easy to close. Opening the gate just takes a finger and thumb pressing action and gate can be opened, no awkward lift and pinch motion here. It was extremely easy to mount, I just put it in the desired doorway and used the included tool to set wall mounts to correct tension and spacing and I was done. Since each corner is individually adjustable it can compensate for doorways and walls that are just not 100% perfectly square. I have some hand me down sliding gates and there's not a wall nor doorway in the house I could use it on. I didn't use the include wall adapters since it's pushing against wood studs and feels rock solid as is. The design is very well thought out, you can leave the door open to swing both ways or there's a little adapter stand below that can lock in the swing direction. Closing the gate is easy too, pushed hard enough and it will close, you don't need to finger/thumb press. It's the closest experience to kicking a door shut, give it a hard push and it will close. This thing is solid, full metal frame throughout and has been very easy to live with on a daily use basis.For frequently used areas, don't even think about a sliding tension gate, you will drive yourself nuts constantly adjusting or not even working as in my case.

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