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Hello, I'm a 20 year old college student living at home and need to pick a baby gate to seperate my dogs from my nephew. My house is all thin drywall . They are both big dogs and jump so the gate needs to be tall and being puppies it cant be the cheap plastic mesh pressure mounted gates. I like the ones with hinged gates as it is hard for me to get over the tall gates being short and an amputee and with two pups you cant exactly move aside the gate. My hallway is about 36 inches wide and is all drywall (the prefurred place to put the gate) and my doorway is less then 28 inches. My parents dont want me to use anything that screws into the wall or door.
I was curious if I could use a pressure mounted one over a stud that is in the middle of the hallway. They REALLY do not want to have holes in the wall at all because it is a trailer house and the drywall is covered in some funky vinel like print so any holes look awkward when patched. If i put a flat strip of wood between the pressure foot and the wall will that help as it will spread the weight around.
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My girlfriend has a New Foundland dog and has big and tall gates...one is pressure mounted the other is attached...
She bought them at PetSmart...does that help?
Pet stores have all sorts of gates, most of which are sturdier than the gates found in baby departments.
There is a way to install something on dry wall that will not damage it. Try asking about it at Home Depot or Loew's or look in a do it yourself book. To do so, you fasten a board to the dry wall first and then fasten the gate to the board. My brother installed a gate in his rented apartment and management approved it.
We bought the metal gates from Costco, I think $60 each (we bought two). They are awesome--too tall for the dogs to jump over. Can be locked, our 2.5 can't open them, and you can install them on stairs, and lengthen/narrow them to fit the width of the doorway.
