Customer Reviews for Ingenuity - The Stairway+ 46W Series - White
Customer Rating
5
Easy to install and great quality
on June 1, 2022
Posted by: Jes.noemis
from Colorado
Gender:Female
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We received this gate about a month ago and it's been our saving grace. We have a newly one year old who loves to climb steps. We have stairs with banisters so it was hard to find a gate that would work. This worked like a charm. It was easy enough to install myself. It's with held her shaking it and pushing it. It's easy to get through the gate with my hands full. I love this gate because when opening it, there isn't a bottom piece to trip over like a different brand we use in the kitchen. It clicks close easy and it's easy to open. We use our gate at the bottom of the steps. Keeps both baby and a 75 lb dog from going up the stairs.0
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I’m so glad I received this bannister gate. It seems very durable and was easy to install. I love that it already has a piece to connect to the bannister so there’s no added cost to buying this product. The directions to me were very easy to follow. Seems to keep the kids safe which is most important!
Great for stairs; just check your measurements 1st
on May 20, 2022
Posted by: gabizago
from Leander, TX
Gender:Female
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I was so excited when I first saw this Summer Infant baby gate because it allows banister to banister installation with no drilling required. But I should have measured my stairs first, since the opening downstairs is 48 inch long, 2 inches more than the largest opening of this gate. But my disappointment didn’t last long - we also need a gate for the top of the stairs, and we do have banisters there as well, with an standard size opening, so it does work for us, just not exactly where we intended to place it originally.
We want to baby proof our house, but we were also concerned about not damaging our brand new banisters in the process. So this gate is exactly what we needed. I can’t tell for sure it won’t have any damage after long term use (since you do need to install it tight for a secure fit), but I’m pretty sure they will be less noticeable than having to drill anything. The straps go tightly around the banisters and it feels secure. My 11 month old is starting to pull up to stand, so we needed something sturdy.
The gate itself is easy to open for an adult, but hard for baby to figure it out (although my toddler figure it out pretty quickly). The entire gate opens, so the door is as large as the opening of your stairs.
Instructions are okayish - it’s hard to figure out some of the images, but nothing impossible to assemble.
Now I just need to figure out a solution for our 48 inch opening at the bottom of the stairs.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Perfect steps gate. I love that it already comes with the bannister attachment. This saves from having to but one. Easy to to set up! Keeps kids safe!
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] My 13 month son hates this product as it stops him at his track but I love it. I actually use it in different locations and it is easy to move. Great item to have if you have stairs or just afraid your child will get away from a scary location
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Easy to install. The pieces used to install it to a banister seem to be durable. The gate itself is sturdy. I love that it's easy to adjust the width of the gate and that there's no bar or anything to have to step over when the gate is open. I wish it could swing open both detections instead of just one. The piece that stops the gate from opening both directions is plastic & I wish it were metal so I wouldn't have to worry about it breaking. This gate is taller than my old gate and I really like that so that my kids can't try to climb over it. Over all it's a pretty good gate.
We had a terrible time installing this gate at both the top and bottom of our staircase. We had to redneck engineer some blocks of wood due to the shape of our bannisters. But it serves its purpose. Be warned though that this is a single-handed latch and VERY easy to open. They say the gate is only recommended for ages 6-24 months, which is true because our almost 2 year old can now open this by himself. Which is of course a huge safety hazard and makes me extremely scared for his safety. I wish there was an option to add a two-step latch system to make this safer for older children. Just because he’s 2 years old doesn’t mean he’s able to go up and down a steep staircase alone! This is a decent product but for us requires some DIY to make it exactly what we need