[blparent] baby gates

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi.  It really depends on what you want to do with the gate.  There are 
inexpensive folding gates that are pressure-mounted between two walls.  They 
work great for doorways or the bottom of the stairs, and they're fairly easy 
to put up and take down.  You might end up stepping over them a lot because 
it's quicker than taking them on and off.  Also, pressure mount gates are 
not recommended for the top of the stairs because if a baby leans on the 
gate, it could come loose and gate and baby will go head over heels down the 
stairs.  It's recommended that you get the swing type gate, that opens like 
a door and is hardware mounted to the wall, at the top of the stairs.  I had 
a wide doorway between my kitchen and dining room to block off, so I bought 
an aluminum gate with mesh between the two horizontal poles.  It worked for 
the wide doorway, but it was difficult to mount and take down, so it stayed 
up all the time.  So there's a crash course--we've been beyond baby gates 
now for a while, so I might have forgotten something.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "jan wright" <jan.wrightfamily5 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:56 AM
To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] baby gates

> It has been a long time since I bought a baby gate.
> Which are best: wood, aluminum or plastic?
> Which are easy to manipulate?
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