Customer Reviews

Kidkusion Retractable Driveway Guard

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Fabulous idea, but not very good. I bought this gate to put across my driveway to keep balls from rolling into the road. The mesh material isn't strong enough to stop the balls. When there is a breeze the mesh blows and small balls roll right underneath, and larger balls keep rolling right thru it if they're going fast enough. It might be better if the spring mechanism was stronger to keep the gate stretched tighter. Also, you need two people to retract it in order to keep the mesh straight and not bunch up on itself.

If all you want is to give your kids a visual so they stay away from the street it's OK. BOTTOM LINE: Too much money for what you get.

I became frustrated researching this product. It has so many low ratings and the photos of it do suggest that it's flimsy! I was determined to find something similar but with quality construction. We have a short, sloped driveway so I couldn't take any chances on things getting past the fence! To my delight I found the kidcatcher. It uses tension at the bottom and top of the fence to catch both kids and balls! I liken the construction to that of a volleyball fence. Very durable product. I would highly recommend it since it's made better and costs about the same!

I love this product ! My twins like to ride their tricycles in the driveway. Not all of our neighbors watch out for kids playing near the street. The Driveway Guard stops the children from riding out into the street and also stops their balls from rolling out of the yard ! When my husband comes home from work, we retract the net to let him in the drive. It works great !

The product was a little flimsy. It also does not retract well.

The ONLY thing about this product that was good was the IDEA. I found So many things wrong with it!
1. The screen is too flimsy and blows over in the breeze. It needs a support strip on the bottom and top, and perhaps the middle to get it to be less flimsy.
2. When you try to retract the screen, it gets all bunchey and stuck inside the roll, and you have to undo and re-roll several times to straighten it out
3. The balls will still roll UNDER the fence
4. The fence posts are NOT strong enough to stay in place & lean over
There needs to be a more permanant mounting system
5. The Sleeve caps come off & get stuck in the dirt when you remove them.

There were a number of negative reviews on this product, but I couldn't find anything else that met our needs so I decided to give it a try. All in all it has been effective for what we needed it to do which was to prevent our two young girls from going beyond our driveway and for keeping play balls in the yard.

Pros:

Great color. Visible for us, the kids and other people so they know our kids are out playing.

Easy to set up. You insert two tubes at either end of the drive for the gate to fit into. Took all of 5 minutes with a hammer. Easy.

Quick. The gate goes easily into the tubes and sets up in 45 seconds.

Effective. If you mount it low to the ground (not sure how the other reviewer set it up so that balls would roll under it. this isn't really possible) it will keep your kids in your driveway.

Cons:

It doesn't always completely retract back into the tube. If you spend more time fiddling with it you can get it to fully retract, but who has time for that? I just retract it as far as it easily goes and then roll up the rest around the unit. Not great, but it works.

It is also not a beefy set up. Kids can't lean on it. Your kids could break it if they run into it hard with their bike, and it is low enough that a ball with any bounce can go over it. But again, it depends on what you need.

For the price it did what we needed it to do this summer.

For almost $100 with shipping I would have thought the quality would have been better. I use mine to catch balls at the end of the driveway so I don't have to run down the street after them, and it does do that for the most part. It's hard to get it low enough on the ground that it catches the smaller balls such as tennis and base balls. Also you have to be careful re-rolling it so it doesn't get all bunched up and uneven, mine already has a hole in it. Tons of people in my neighborhood have stopped and asked me about it since they were considering buying one and I did not reccommend it for these reasons

I purchased this driveway guard and do agree it's a good idea. The main reason for my purchase was so that I would not have to chase balls down our driveway (our house is set up high). I found that smaller balls will simply roll underneath the net. Larger balls have a 50/50 chance of being caught by the net. All in all, this was certainly not worth the $$. i am very disappointed.

I purchased this product and couldnt even believe how much money they wanted for this thing!! They shipped it to me and the first one was broke, so I called n they were VERY nice and shipped out another one immediately and I shipped the broken one back. The second one that I got seemed to be in working order so we got it all set up outside and for the first time that we rolled back in it went in fine. Well every time since then itll go in all the way except about the last foot of it and we have to roll that in by hand so for as much as we paid for it that seemed a little irritating. I figured if it costs this much that it should be PERFECT in every way. I didnt feel like sending this one back too and having to wait on a new one and also I dont have the package to even do that now.

We have a medium-sized dog we wanted to be able to run free in our yard. We do have a fence, but no gate across the driveway. It would have cost hundreds of dollars to install a gate, so we looked for something less expensive. We looked at tennis nets, but they were either too long or would have looked messy. We wanted something better. Although this is for kids, it seemed to fit the bill, and so far we are happy.
You simply dig two holes, hammer in the post holders, place one in, and, when you want to use the gate, place the other post in. It works like a window shade. My only complaint is that, when you retract the gate, you have to move it up and down so it does not jam as it rewinds. It is easy to do, I'm just being picky.
True, as someone else wrote, it does not secure at the bottom, so a determined dog could sneak underneath or perhaps jump over, but our dog is a wimp. When confronted by the mesh barrier, he just looks out and then walks away. He is happy because he can run free in the yard, and for us it is very convenient to be able to simply open the front door and let him loose. There is about 3-4" of space at the bottom of the net, so I suppose a small dog easily could get under it if it wanted to. I'm not saying this is great for dogs, only that it is great for our dog.