Fitting a Baby Safety Gate

aj9648

Hi all

Hopefully someone will have suggestions on this one as it has been driving me nuts !!!

I have been trying to put a baby safety gate up today so that little one stops crawling in and out of kitchen and stays in living room....open plan kitchen and living room.

I bought a gate from mothercare which fits a gap of 82cm......nearly all gates I have seen fit 82cm and no more unless you get extensions.

Anyway I measure the gap and its exactly 82cm. This is the skirting board bit but the gap is obviously much bigger on the wall - around 86cm. The gate alone wont fit as its too small. So I also got an extension to the gate - smallest one is 7cm.

So I am having real difficulty in cracking this - the gate wont fit in with extensions properly as its smaller at the bottom with the skirting boards.

I hope this makes sense - maybe a rambling (sorry)

Any ideas??? ps mrs does not want to place the gate on the skirting boards - unsafe apparently !!!

Ruski

Couple of strips of timber to 'pad out' the wall either side (thickness of your skirting or more) and then fit gate between - most likely a friction fit anyway. Regarding fixing against the skirting I'm afraid she's been listenening to too many old wives tales - millions of babygates have the fitting against the skirting board.

HTH

Russ

chiefgoobster

I'd go for the pad out option as well.Maybe a few 3" square of old carpet/thick material or something to put between the gate fixings and the wall/skirting....just to protect them from marking it.

hope this helps.

Cash-Cow_3

The little monsters quickly find out how to open them. Best not bother and just keep an eye on them instead.

uklovebaby

Thank you for sharing this. Very useful and informative.