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Stairway Gate Installation Kit (K12) by KidCo
Availability:
In Stock
Price:
$39.99
$31.17*
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| Part No: | B000P007FI |
| Manufacturer: | KidCo |
| MFG Part: | KID-K12 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- No Drilling
- Easy Attachment
The beauty of todays homes is the diversity of designs and materials used for stairways, room openings and doorways. Because of this, the installation of child safety gates can be difficult since a one size fits all gate design does not exist.
In the Stairway Gate Installation Kit (Model K12), KidCo has assembled the materials and fasteners necessary to properly install any child safety gate to stairway banisters, without drilling into your expensive, decorative wood.
One kit is required for each side of the gate that is being mounted to a banister; and only the most basic tools are needed to assemble any good child safety gate.
For use at the top or bottom of stairs with hardware or pressure mount gates. The hardware is designed to fit square posts 2 1/2in - 3 5/8in wide or use the included insert for round post installation.
FOR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER PLEASE CONTACT KIDCO AT 1-800-553-5529
| Great option to drilling but HORRIBLE product description & instructions | 2010-07-30 | 5 / 5 |
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| Love that we had an option to drilling in our 2 ballisters, but first the production descrpition should clearly read that the kit in only for one ballister (maybe I missed it or maybe it just needs to be called out for moms with fuzzy brains?) We were in tghe process of installing the gate and realized we needed to order a second kit pronto, so install was delayed. Second the product instructions are horrible. We saw from other reviews that the diagrams are swapped, but there neds to be much more detail about the alignment of the connectors and screws. It took multiple tries to get it alligned, but we are so happy to know that when it comes down to take the gates down that our banister is still intact! |
| Very high quality product.... except the manual. | 2010-06-03 | 5 / 5 |
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The parts quality is tops: The wood is high quality hard wood. Beefy plastic. Big bolts.
The engineering is tops: The product is solid as a rock, but also clearly designed not to harm the stair railing.
The manual sucks (for all the reasons described in other reviews). |
| Easy to use; No damage to railing | 2010-04-02 | 4 / 5 |
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| We love this kit. We have used it on two staircases. We purchased it for one and were so pleased we bought a second one for upstairs. It is easy to assemble, although YOU WILL NEED A DRILL. The good thing is you drill into the kit, not the banister. The kit essentially allows you to mount a flat piece of wood parallel to your banister. You can then attach whatever gate you want to the flat wood, leaving the banister untouched. Two clamps seal around your banister so that you never drill into it. I am no expert handyman and it took me about 45 minutes to assemble, with most of that time spent reading the instructions and checking ten times before I drilled anything. One downside: the instructions could be better. I was able to figure out what to do (it's sort of obvious from looking at the parts), but the company would do well to improve on the instruction writing. This was not a deal breaker for me, though. |
| Works great but hard to install | 2010-02-04 | 4 / 5 |
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I bought this installation kit so I could avoid having to drill into our stair railings. We used it with a safety first top of the stair gate.
Each kit comes with a piece of wood that runs vertically, perpendicular to the floor, and you install your gate's hardware into the piece of wood instead of into your railings/walls. To attach the wood, the kit comes with two brackets - one of the top of the rail and one for the bottom. They have inserts in case your post is rounded, so that's great. Ours is square on the bottom and rounded on the top and the brackets fit snugly either way.
You need to actually drill through the included wood, through the plastic casing which contains a small wooden block. This is how the wood gets attached to your brackets. It was very difficult to actually install this wood to the brackets. There are no pre-drilled or marked holes. It does come with a paper diagram that you can use to mark where you need to drill but it is hard to work with. On the upside, no pre-drilling means it is customizable to your rails so you don't need to worry about it not fitting exactly like you need it.
Be careful to mark where your gate hardware will need to be attached to the wood too. At first, I wasn't paying attention and the gate's bracket ended up needing to be screwed into the wood right where I had already screwed the wood to the kit bracket. So that was annoying...but was my fault for not checking up front.
The kits are fairly expensive and you will need a kit for each rail. It would be nice if a "kit" included two sides instead of just one. We had to buy two of these kits, but at least we didn't have to ruin our posts by drilling them, so overall it was a good buy.
We've had our gate installed with this kit now for about 2 months and we're very pleased with it, now that it is actually done! The worst thing about it was the difficult installation, but otherwise it is sturdy, and saves your railings. I'd say it is definitely worth the purchase overall.
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| It made installing the gate on our metal stair case very easy! | 2010-01-21 | 5 / 5 |
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| I am very happy with this installation kit! We have a very modern metal railing around our stairs, and this kit made it a breeze to install! I took an extra 30 minutes and spray painted our kit black to match the KidCo Gate, and our metal railing and it turned out great! |
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