EasyBabyExtra Wide Retractable Baby Gate, 33" Tall, Extends up to 71" Wide, Grey/Child Safety Baby Gates, Pet Retractable Gates for Stairs, Doorways, Hallways, Indoor and Outdoor

Although it holds tension a dog can easily get under it.

The product works fine, we have it to keep the little rug rats from venturing off the porch. There are 2 tips I learned though.1. Get better screws. The ones they provide aren't that great when screwing into wood posts. Even with a pre-drill pilot hole, I've had a couple break off in the wood. Then you have to move the mounting holes 'cuz you can't get the broken one out (at least not easily)2. Mount the main support first and install the main gate. Then pull the gate out to where you want the latches to be on the other side and mark, mount them that way. This way you won't end up with the top/bottom end not being even with each other. Simple enough to do, and you eliminate any unevenness with needing to use a laser-level, protractor, and calculator ;-)

So we installed this in our office between a wall and a reception desk to keep our office mascot (Terrier) away from the outer lobby.First the bad then the good.Okay so the installation was easy, for the most part. The company gives you spacers for uneven walls, like floor molding or trim work, but they don't explain that is what they are doing. That said you figure it out because the also give you short and long screws, just in case. IN the end, you may use ONE spacer at the bottom and THREE at the top to balance and level all things out, but the screws will work. Molley's are provided, but always good to have extra.They also give you a PAPER TEMPLATE to put on the wall so yo know where to drill holes. This is both good and bad, and here is why - Good because it is a no brainer template - YEAH! Bad- because it is hard to lay out 'accurately IF yo in fact have projecting one inch molding on the bottom floor base board and a flat wall. Your holes will be off because the paper folds into the wall as it moves up from the floor board to the flat wall. You need to compensate for this, and maybe hold it away from the flat surface and run a in through the marks to get an accurate spot, marking the wall. Lastly, the receiving side template was printed BACKWARDS. so be weary of that. Look at the gate and see how the handles hook on the brackets first and you will see that you have to put the brackets on the wall in reverse from what the template shows in order to have the entire hook and grab feature apply. You will see - it is easy, just look before you screw them in so you don't have to turn it around and have too may holes in the wrong spot.One more bad thing about the template - It is wrapped around the gate when shipped so you might just think it is shipping wrap, so don't tear it off when unpacking - it is the template! When ours was received it was wrapped around the gate - UPSIDE DOWN, so that could have sent us down the wrong path too if we just did not look at it closer before mounting.One last bad thing before the good....We got the EXTRA WIDE GATE, so this is an issue with that -- When you extend the gate out and then engage it in the closed position, (fully extended) it is designed to LOCK, so as to not SNAP BACK like an old Window Shade might. However unlock an old window shade, where to release that lock you typically pull it (extend it) another each and then slowly release to allow for retraction, in this case you must PUSH DOWN on the Button at the wall mounted side (BE SURE TO PUT THIS BUTTON SIDE UP and not at the floor level so you can push it, when mounting). Simple enough to do on the smaller gates, but on a 72 inch gate, having your arms stretched like a scare crow to push down on one side while pulling out on the other is almost impossible and YES you must be pushing down simultaneously to make it release... So UGH. But we created a feasible work around... We PUSHED and TURNED the release knob as required, and placed a metal paper clipped (wedged) into the tight gap between the knob and the frame, to LOCK IT in the pushed down and unlocked position, so we do not have to do both at one time.) As long as we don't let go when opening the gate, it wont suddenly retract back to fast. (As the gate ages, it tends to retract slower anyway - so we have had no problems with this.)NOW THE GOOD> This gate, which we got in white, permits enough see though for our dog to not feel blocked, and looks great in the office, much more professional than a wooden child gate or metal type frame. It is EASY to operate and separates the public from the staff, until WE allow them in, so it stopped the 'just walk right back' effect we use to have.I mentioned a lot of bad stuff above - but I want to CLEARLY SHOUT --- None of the bad out way the good - this is a great gate and well made. The bad I mentioned are merely to help you prepare to use this gate in an easy fashion, both from the installation point and the final use.You won't be sorry if you buy this gate - UNLESS -- our dog does not claw at things, so I am not sure how it would handle a dog that tears at stuff, but it has enough flexibility to probably prevent much of any destruction, while also being of a thickness that would not merely tear by accident.

This thing is dangerously awful. I have no idea how this is allowed to be sold. It’s very hard to pull the gate out of the roll and the latch on the other end is very questionable. My toddlers would instantly push it out of this latch and it would smack them while the retracting. In my photo you can see that this latch is wide open. We aren’t even going to give them the chance.. we will take this down. Now we have holes in our drywall for no reason.

This is the perfect baby gate. It rolls up nicely and is flush with the wall, so when we don't need its low profile. Its easy to pull out and latch. Easy to unaltch with baby in arms. The locking mechanism is on the top and it clicks one way to lock, one way to unlock. When its unlocked its easy to retract. I read a comment that complained about how east it was for the kid to push the gate out of the latches - I suspect that person didn't install it correctly. I added a picture of the latch to show, there is no way you can push that out without releasing the lock. You do need to make sure the gate is locked tho, otherwise our kid can push it far enough he can crawl under. Another bonus is you can move the gates around. We installed the fixture 3 places and move it around depending on what area we want the kiddo in. The kit came with multiple fixtures. We also installed one a bit off the ground so the cat can squeeze under. I love it! We have 2 now and will probably get more.