Kidco Wood Safeway
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Kidco Wood Safeway
Customer Review: Great so far and easy to use!
Summary: 5 Stars
We really struggled to find the proper gate to fit our stairs due to the thick moulding and banister we have. However, after some retro-fitting, this gate blends in quite nicely. My favorite part is the ease of use. Some of the other gates we tried were so hard to open; I can open this with one hand and a baby on my hip.Customer Review: Very nice Gate
Summary: 5 Stars
We are using this gate to manage dogs. It is a very sturdy gate and looks very nice in our log home. One hint - mark all of the parts with their letter code using a piece of chalk, it will make putting it together a piece of cake.Customer Review: Great gate
Summary: 5 Stars
We needed this gate for a stairwell with an extra wide opening & it has worked like a charm! Easy to use (even holding a child)! Great product and well worth the extra expense as compared to other gatesCustomer Review: Worth the money and effort
Summary: 4 Stars
The first safety gate I bought for the top of our stairs did not do the job. I did not have a stud opposite the banister and the gate had a bar across the bottom which had to be stepped over everytime you went through. Very unsafe! All it took was one person to put their weight on the cross bar and suddenly there were giant holes in my drywall.
I was looking for a top-of-stairs gate that could be mounted at an angle so I could drill into the nearest stud, and did not have a crossbar along the bottom. This KidCo gate fit the bill exactly! As a bonus, it even looks nice with the rest of the wood decor in my house. There are a few things worth pointing out:
1) The directions are not impossible, but take some time to read through them before starting. I agree with other reviewers, label all pieces.
2) Tools I needed included power drill, drill bit set, screwdrivers.
3) Drilling into the banister was not ideal, so I also purchased the KidCo gate installation kit. Also, on the opposite wall where the stud was, the baseboard was going to interfere with the mounting of the gate hinge. To give myself a level, vertical surface to mount the hinges on, I secured a wood strip like the one that came with the gate installation kit to the wall. The wood strip had a smaller wood block (same width as the baseboard) behind it at the top to act as a spacer.
4) While not specified in the gate directions, I did need to drill pilot holes into my wood strips. I expect this might also be true if you were mounting on a banister or into a stud.
It took a long time to finish the whole project. But once you start working through the instructions, the mounting is fairly straight-forward. I am very pleased with the final product. It is sturdy, and nice-looking, and much safer than my previous gate. I only gave it four stars because I thought the instructions could have been a little better.
Customer Review: Decent option for top of stairs in split level homes
Summary: 4 Stars
I did a fair amount of research on gates for the top of the stairs for our split level home. There are limited top of stairs gates... and then to have an extra wide opening, angle mount, AND want it too look okay since it's smack in front of the front door... It was hard. So this gate seemed to be the best option - though for this money I wanted to LOVE it. It's 'okay' looking but it matches the hard wood floor really well so it blends in nicely. We did need an extentsion piece for the gate and the stairway gate installation kit (k12). One complaint is that when it swings open and we want it to stay open (which it would be nice if there was a hook or something to help it stay open - but maybe that's from the way we installed it) it's then blocking the hallway because it's so wide. So I wish it had a little retraction or that it slid to open to make it not as wide when it's not in use. And it did take almost 2 hours to install. But we didn't need extra screws like some other people seemed to need. I give it 4 stars because we like it and I didn't seem many options for our needs and this seems to work.