Stairgate confusion

[Pipsicle]

Hi

All the photos of stairgates appear to be fixed to 2 solid walls. However our stairs bend round from the bottom so there are just 2 bannisters anything could attach to and this is about 3 stairs up. At the top is one solid wall and a bannister - how can a stairgate attach to any of these????

The bannisters also happen to be a silly shape and not a simple straight line. I cant be the only person with this issue but cannot work out which stairgate to get or how to fix it. Can anyone help?

Thanks

On the bottom of our stairs we have the stairgate fixed to a stair post (which is square). The catch is fixed to the wall. We had to fix at a 90degree angle to what you normally would i.e. on the front of hte stair post as opposed to at the side. We had to choose a specific style of stair gate to do this. We could not have used a typical stair gate.

Our stairgate is on top of hte bottom step. I could post pics if it would help as my discription is really bad (although would probably be tomorrow).

At the top it is fixed to wall, with hte catch on the square stair post which is wood.

It all seems fine and I don't recall anything in the instructions to say otherwise.

An alternative would be the babydan play pen thing where you can make a little fence thing to blcok areas off rather than having a discreet gate.

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better description of hte BabyDan thing

thanks - that looks good to me!

any good?

Its a fabric pull out one, so would be more flexible than a normal one.