Pressure Mounted Gate Recommendations

I know you wrote in your SWH that you know about pressure mounted gates at tops of stairs. Friends of ours had a terrible accident, so I just urge not to go that route.

Here's what we did.

We bought the wooden kind that slide open/closed to expland. Click shut.

We used super strength plastic (hardware type) ties and attached them to the staircase with a block of wood. Hard to explain, but we didn't have to drill holes.

Does that stair case have balusters or newel posts? If so, you can attach a block of wood to the newel with these super strength hardware type ties (that cinch off so they cannot move), and you attach the gate to the block of wood with screws. So you are not screwing into the wall - but into the block of wood. You can Google this. The instructions came with our particular gate but this was decade ago.

Good luck :)

** When you take the gate down, you just cut the cinch ties and remove the gate from the blocks of wood. No damage to walls or stair case.

My husband put all his weight (with mine) and we rammed that gate - didn't move. Not even budge.

I don't like pressure gates for the top of the stairs. I've worked with children for years and have seen so many of these gates fail in standard doorways; I'd hate to see what would happen on stairs.

We have very steep stairs both up to our attic bedroom and down to the basement. We used this for both sets:
http://www.kidsafeinc.com/evenflo-top-of-stair-extra-tall...

We did not have one issue with these gates ever. We did teach our son not to stand on the bottom part of the gate early on. That's important, because no gate is 100% indestructible and kids will climb on it.

We also had this surrounding our woodstove:
http://www.amazon.com/North-States-Industries-Superyard-M...

And they make good gates too:
http://www.amazon.com/North-States-Industries-Supergate-C...

ETA: talk to your landlord and explain that this is a safety situation. You may have to pay for the repair to the wall, but we repaired ours easily once the hardware was removed. I have known people with children who asked the landlord for prior permission and just agreed that they would have it repaired before quitting the lease. It's worth it.

Well, I'll be honest. We had a thin metal railing so we didn't use a pressure mounted one there, but due to the cats needing go downstairs, we used a plastic one that fixed into the wall. We were happy with the Summer brand. This was our kitchen gate: http://www.diapers.com/p/summer-infant-multi-use-decorati...

Here's a site with some gate info: http://parent.guide/how-to-choose-the-best-baby-safety-ga...

This one. http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Infant-Multi-Use-Walk-Thru-B...

We have a very energetic border collie. When it gets stormy, she gets scared an uses all 53lbs of herself to push the pressure-mounted cheapo wooden gate we have right over. So we bought the one linked above because it has the option to be pressure mounted or hardware mounted. We figured we'd use the hardware.

When it arrived, we set it up using just the pressure. Each pressure arm adjusts individually, and we found that our dog can't even move it! So we haven't had to put in the hardware at all. It's an extremely sturdy gate.

Good luck!

In the first home we built and daughter was a toddler, we used the extra mattress from a trundle bed to block and secure the stairs.

In the house we are currently in and built, we use gates which can be moveable gates areas but not connected to block off areas we don't want our dogs to go to. We call them our golden gates but we got them from Petco for about $75 each. I love my golden gates and I usebthem throughout the house.

Good luck

Maybe ask the landlord to install one?

We had a wrought iron railing at our house when our son was a baby.
My husband used something like this to attach a gate to it:

http://blog.kidsmartliving.com/2014/10/baby-gate-installa...

It worked great!
Although that's probably not the sort of stair railing you have.

Our style house had multiple exits from both levels.
From a safety point of view in a townhouse - I'm not sure a gate on the stairway would be in keeping with the fire code.
You want to be able to quickly evacuate the kids from the house if there's an emergency.
You might want to re-think how to keep them away from the stairs instead of making the stairs difficult for the fire dept.

I would only use pressure/doorway gates on rooms.
For a staircase to a lower level, I would use a sturdy wall mounted gate.
More secure.
When we were looking for one, I just googled it, found numerous pictures, went through them all & ended up ordering the perfect gate!

This is probably not what you want to hear, but you should never use a pressure mounted gate at the top of steps. If someone (including the child) pushes or falls into it, it can come loose and they can fall down the steps. You should always use gates that screw into the wall/banister at the top of steps.