Review of Munchkin Wood and Steel Designer Gate, Dark Wood/Silver

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program While I don't have any munchkins, I do have a couple Saint Bernards, and short of agricultural grade equipment, this gate has proven to be the ultimate solution. The gate looks nice enough, has a wide opening (wide enough for two saints to try to go through, but not wide enough for them to succeed), and it can be easily widened to fit most openings. Installation is straight forward: extensions attach via plastic bits with metal rods, grippy bolts go into the gate, and you expand the gate to fit the opening. When you first start, the gate will be quite open up top, and it will tighten up after a while. You will need the included wrench (or one of your own), and you may encounter an issue: the bottom bolts are way too low! As you can see in the pictures, they're at the bottom--the land of the baseboards! Worse yet, it's so low that quarter round molding, which someone saw fit to include in my home, calls home. Tighten the gate, and the whole gate rises. This isn't ideal, as the bottom bar can cause tripping if too high. A better solution can be found on other gates that simply place the bolts higher up. All is not lost, as the gate closes nicely, looks handsome, and the included hardware allows for semi permanent mounting (although the previously mentioned rising of the gate has let to the top bolts bending).

In the end, it's a good gate, but it can be a great gate (and it is if you don't have baseboards) with a simple design change.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program The Munchkin Wood and Steel Gate is nice and solid. It has sturdy steel construction, and an attractive wood gate. The plastic gate mechanism is easy to operate, and our 3 1/2 year old toddlers can open it. It's also easy to swing the gate closed behind you; it will swing back into place and latch without having to reach back and operate the mechanism. The gate is a nice width, and also comes with extensions for use in larger gaps. I've encountered one drawback. Although it comes with cups and adhesive pads for tension mounting in a doorway, we have had it slip off the door a twice over the last few weeks. It also comes with screws to secure the mounting cups to the wall or door frame. I'm sure this would work great, but you have to want to put screw holes in your wall or doorway, which I was hoping to avoid. But overall this is a nice gate, that is well-built and attractive.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I'm completely satisfied with this gate. It's easy to set up and very effective.

Now, it comes entirely assembled, but it comes packed in with extensions to help it fit doors up to 41 inches wide. It'll fit a standard size door right out of the box.

When you pull it out of the box, it'll seem like the door is crooked, but the instructions tell you that the door will fix itself when you mount it correctly. Look at the sides of the gate in the picture and you'll see that it has bolts on all four sides. It's not actually bolted to the wall, though. Those four bolts are clamping the gate to the wall, and as you tighten the bolts, that'll cause the crooked gate to correct itself.

As for the lock on the gate, the trick is you hate to squeeze both sides of the locking mechanism and push down. This is good, because a toddler isn't going to be able to make the connection that you have to do both. But, on the negative side, you're not going to be able to slam this gate shut, you have to put the lock in place every time. It'll only take a few seconds, though.

Oh, and the gate swings both ways.

So, I highly recommend it. It looks great. It's going to last a long time. And it's a small price to pay for piece of mind.

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I purchased this gate for my new puppy after much research. It is very attractive, easy to install, and the gate opens easily. I was looking for a gate in which the gate would swing both ways, would stay open if you wanted it to; and had a wide gate opening. It is much wider than most of them which was important to me since I needed one that I could carry a small dog crate thru. I've only had this for one day now but I feel confident that I made the right choice and am very happy with my decision.

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We had 2 of these gates... One was purchased a year ago and installed rather easily, though (as the written instructions warned) some of the plastic corner stoppers were difficult to remove. We purchased another recently and the 2 bottom stoppers could NOT be removed. The plastic was malleable and simply tore when we tried to pry it out as instructed, wouldn't budge. We had to return it, and now I'm sitting in my living room with the replacement gate in a pile of parts having the exact same problem as before. So frustrating, since we want the bottom gate to match the one at the top of the stairs. Perhaps Amazon had a problem with some of these getting hot and fused or something? But if you manage to install it, it's sturdy and good looking. Also, beware the width... Many stairwells are wider than 40.5, but you can buy extra extensions direct from the manufacturer to make them work. FYI: new instructions have only pics and are hard to follow.