Great Gate!

Avery checking out his new gate

We finally have a gate across the top of our stairs! Prior to having our permanent gate installed we closed the door on one side of the stairs and put a cheap wooden expanding gate on the other side of the stairs, not a bad solution but an annoying process. Why didn’t we just put the wooden expanding gate across the stairs you ask. For one, the stairs are too wide for the gate we had and the other issue is that the walls on either side of the stairs are different lengths, making installing most gates imposable. Hoping that something out there  would work, as is or with a little modification, I did purchase two different gates, but of course neither worked. So like many things we had to go the custom route.  The requirements for the gate were simple, prevent Avery from falling down the stairs, easily allow us to got down the stairs, and a way for the cat to get thru to his food. Thankfully my dad is a gate building expert, having built (over engineered) a gate for my parents stairs already, so he was the perfect guy for the job.

Avery testing out my parents gate
 prior to final install

After a lot of thought and work my dad completed and installed Avery great gate last night!

Open 

Closed

Diesel sneaking thru

I am very glad to have the gate in place, thanks so much for all your hard work dad!