Customer Reviews

Supergate III

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Supergate III is easy to install and works wonderfully. Easy to open and close with one hand. Swing installations works the best. I have it in my doorway to my kitchen and it stands up to my son's power pushes!

I have had my gate for about two mo. My 15 mo old son is only 2" taller than the gate and he can scale it with ease. I bought the gate for its height and sturdyness but never imagined he could climb it. the gate has a perfect step in the hole in the middle it makes it very easy to escape. I am returning my gate and finding one that does not have foot holes that help childrens scale the gate...

Contrary to the other review posted my gate has survived a great dane and three children . My youngest is now crawling so I need another one. My old one is fine. Sorry to the other cusstomer. I would have returned it obviously it was faulty. But Ive head great luck with mine and it is very sturdy.

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The fact is that the supergate III is a versatile, durable, easy to install and use product.

It is the ONLY product under [$$](in fact you can buy three supergate III for [$$]) which is approved for combination staircase and iron railing use.

I have several supergates that are now on their eighth year of abuse as well as some new ones for a new stairway. I highly recommend this product.

My husband and I bought this gate to use at the top of our staircase. It appeared to be the best buy for the money. Well, we were wrong. The screws that come with the product to mount it are not long enough to go through the sheetrock into the stud. Position the gate on the brackets, and the weight of the gate pulls the screws out of the wall.

In addition to that, the swing hardware is designed wrong. The part that makes the gate swing is longer than the bracket in the wall, so just swinging the gate open PUSHES the brackets (with their puny little screws) out of the wall. I don't know how it works as a pressure gate, because we only have need for a gate at the stairs, so it went back to the store, but DO NOT buy this gate for stairway use.

We purchased this gate to mount between a wall & wrought iron railing at the top of a staircase. We had a difficult time trying to find a gate that could be mounted in these conditions so we were excited to find this one.
My husband installed the gate after having to purchase new screws because the ones that came with the gate were really short & stripped easy in the iron railing.
Our gate isn't sturdy at all. In fact, it seems pretty flimsy....and it is installed correctly. I wouldn't trust it to hold the weight of my (17 lb) daughter if she were to stand up and lean on it. We will keep it up until we can find a replacement.
I think it would be ok if it wasn't mounted at the top of the stairs. Someone had mentioned in a previous review that it was easy to climb and I can see how that would be the case. The little holes are perfect little steps.
Bottom line, I would not recommend this gate for the top of a stairway. Just in a hallway...may be ok but I'm sure you could find better. Pretty disappointing.

While the gate is sturdy one it is up, it is hard to put up and take down. There is a ratchet mechanism that turns and then locks into place. I originally bought two of these gates when we first got a puppy and tried to use them when we had twin boys. It worked well for the puppy but so well for the twins. By the time you get it up or down your kids are already where you don't want them to be. Not the point of a gate! There are much easier gates to open and close.

I bought this gate because of the cost and the ability to use it as a swing type gate. We didn't even attempt to install it with the screws it came with, we purchased longer ones at the local hardware store. I have six stairs down to my front door and it worked great, we used it for two years during my daughters crawling and walking stages.....she was never a climber so scaling it wasn't an issue for me.

I thought this gate was a wonderful deal for the price and the fact you could use it on the stairs. Boy, was I wrong! It works horrible on the stairs. The hinges the company sent are xxx. The gate is constantly falling off them when you open it to go up the stairs.

We bought this gate to use at the top of stairs because you can screw it into the wall. It seems sturdy enough for my 20 pound crawling 10 month old ...but it is not very easy to open and close. It definitely takes two hands which I don't have when holding my daughter. I am going to return it and buy a gate with a handle that is sturdy at the same time.