To think this is the most pointless baby gate

[singymummy]

Posted to sell on a local site, surely the baby could just slide underneath

Ours is a bit like that with a gap underneath - but it's to stop a fuck off great big dog rather than a child so it's fine

Nope. Can't see the gate. Can only see that hideous sign.

Never mind the gap, how the Hell do you manage to get over the gate?

I'd break my neck!

You don't have to get over it, crunchy, it opens..?

Never mind the gap, how the Hell do you manage to get over the gate?

Errr what???? If you are "going over" gates you are doing gates all wrong. Gates that you have to get over are generally called fences.

Although i'd love to see you high jump your front gate every time you get home (i appricate many people dont have front gates)

How do you normally operate a gate?? 🤣😂

If top and bottom can’t be different widths just install a spacer (ie block of wood).

What about the mirror. You'd have to get a ladder out ever time You wanted to clean it.

may not have been for a baby, my MIL has a stair gate for FIL as he has a sleep walking problem and has fallen a few times.

Who in their right mind has a mirror directly above their stairs? I'd either frighten myself first thing in the morning or be so distracted by my grey hairs that I ended up in a mangled heap at the bottom.

I agree that it might be for a large dog, a sleepwalking adult, or a granny with dementia (in case of night time waking), in which cases it would be fine fitted like that.

I had one of these for my dog - it worked well and I had it close to the floor. As for the sign ...

I have a gate in the same position my kids are old enough for stairs but I put it up incase anyone gets lost in the way to the loo in the middle of the night.

We have one like that so that cat can go under but dog can’t.

That looks to be a pretty dodgy gate

But more concerning is the wanky sign that's attached to it!

at all the comments on the sign! Surely they aren't using it as a baby gate or that would be more dangerous then not having one at all... our stairs are really wide and nothing to fix a gate to, so our gate is across dd's door instead, prefer that anyway as then I don't bang into it!

I thought baby gates at the top of stairs were considered unsafe now.

I feel like Mrs Hinch may be on in that house a lot.

@LightsInOtherPeoplesHouses how am I supposed to stop my toddler from throwing himself down the stairs when he runs out the bathroom? Or am I supposed to have 5 gates on the doors upstairs now?

That’s so, so dangerous. If a baby’s body can slip through that but not its head then the result could be catastrophic. And it couldn’t be removed that quickly in an emergency situation.

It would be much safer to have no gate at all.

I think crunchymum is meaning that even opened you have to take a big step over the bottom frame, which doesn't seem particularly safe either. Imagine a toddler trying to get over it.

My ds would've tried to get under it just to see what would happen. He once stuck his leg through a banister on the stairs at a holiday house. Thought we were going to have to remove the wood! When asked he said 'I wanted to see if I could fit'. He was 5.

Unless the bottom frame completely opens. mine doesn't. The gate swings and there's a frame in place along the bottom.

@purplecatt That looks like the same gate that I have at the top of my stairs. The entire gate swings open, there’s no bar to climb over so no tripping hazard.

And yes, it’s installed wrong. Ours is fixed the skirting board at the bottom and the wall at the top with no need for any blocks of wood etc, the screw bits at the ends adjust independently to tighten it.

Latest advice is not to have a gate at the top of the stairs as children could end up having a worse fall when trying to climb over. I think you’re meant to have the gates in bedroom doorways instead.

There's no frame, purplecatt. The gate is screwed to the wall not pressure fit and swings fully open. Ideally you don't have pressure fit gates at the top of the stairs because of the trip bar, yes.