Need Suggestions for Best Top of Stairs Baby Gate

I do not care how "good" a pressure gate is, you have to consider that your childs weight pressed against it, particularly if she tries to use it to stand or to climb over will likely pop it and down goes baby and gate. I know that is not how I want to wake up in the morning.

I suggest that you get the type that screws in for your stair well and fix the holes when you move. Most people purchasing a home understand that and you can explain that they will be repaired when you leave. Who knows, they people who end up purchasing the home may pay extra for you to buy new gates for your next home and have you leave the gates for their precious bundle of J....

Good Luck...;-)

I don't think any kind of pressure gate at the top of the stairs is a good idea. The what if has to run thru your mind, and that is a long way down. when we were renting a home when my son was small, we ended up putting a baby gate in at the top that had to be screwed into the wall. we had to fix it of course when we left, but thats what a little putty is for. it was worth the safty of our noah.

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This is a pressure gate which needs know screws. I have been using this in my kitchen for the past 6 months.

Evenflo Soft & Wide Gate
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2267000

There is an opening going to my dining room that was so wide that I had no choice but to get a different gate which I had to screw in. I have loved it also.

Summer Infant Sure and Secure Custom-Fit Gate
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2265804

Yes, please don't even consider a pressure gate, that is a potential injury waiting to happen. Just be safe and screw one into the wall, we have a curved type that I purchased at Babies-r-us and it is the best. Fixing the wall is better than worrying the pressure gate at the top of the stairs might snap and she fall down them, good luck.

The only gate I have been able to find, that is rated safe for the top of the stairs (they are NOT all rate top mounted safe!) is right here http://www.retract-a-gate.com/prices-buy-retractable-safe... I don't have one yet but will be ordering soon. Best wishes.

Hi Jen-

The problem with all pressure mounted gates that I have looked at is that they work best if they have a flat surface on both sides in which to be wedged. If your staircase does not have two solid walls (one on each side) it won't work well. A rounded wooden railing won't work. Now if you do have solid walls and are absolutely sure that you don't want to screw one into the walls then I do have an Evenflo Simple Step gate which we use at the opening to our playroom that has been great. It is wedged so well that even my 6 and 4 years old pushing on it or shaking it to be let in doesn't move the thing a bit.

Here's the link to the gate http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4631175

good luck!
K.

If you have not gotten one, the curved gate is wonderful! That's what we have at the top of our stairs. It locks wonderfully and you have that step at the top to use. No need to step over it either.
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2963240