stairgate question

[miss.understood]

thinking i am gonna have to get stair gates soon as wont be long before william is on the move and rather had them before he starts. i have 1 at the top coz when we moved here jake was 3 and could use stairs ok but we lived in a flat before so was just worried about him in the nite. what the problem is, is where to put the gate at the bottom of the stairs.
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as you can see the only 2 places are not at the bottom of stairs. i could put it at the first straight step but thats 3 up and could hurt himself on the fall of 3, or i could attach it to the wall on the 2nd step only leaving 1 step and that stupid sticky out white lump of pointless bit. its council so i cant do anything structual to make something and i dont think i could get them to put something up so it could be attached at bottom step. so where would you put a gate on these stairs if you lived here?

[dora the ex...]

my stairs are like that with beth and chloe i put it just on the straight part ... if you get me :laff: just after the bend..thats what i would do only though cause i had probs fitting it on the very bottom cause it was a lot wider... you get what i mean dont you??? :doh:

[miss.understood]

no lol :laff: :laff: nly kidding i know exactly what ya means :laff:

[dora the ex...]

no lol :laff: :laff: nly kidding i know exactly what ya means :laff:

thank god for that :doh: having one of them days :doh: :laff:

[miss.understood]

:heartbeat: for you we all have :doh: days lol

[Princess Fiona]

If i had stairs like that i'd be tempted to put it across the 3rd step up where it could be fixed properly. Your stairs are quite wide and don't look steep so i'm sure you could manage without a gate across the 1st 3 steps.

We don't have one at the bottom of the stairs but i'm begining to think we may have to now :roll: We already have 3 in the house, 1 across the kitchen/lounge to stop her getting into the kitchen and 1 across the lounge/hallway to stop her getting up the stairs, then one across the landing to stop her getting down the stairs. There was nowhere across teh top of the stairs for us to fix a gate so i've got it attached to the doorframes of our bedroom door and the bathroom door. Its better actually as you dont have to stand on the stairs to open the gate, there is about a foot of floorspace at the top of the stairs before the gate starts.

Thing is downstairs when i have her out of the lounge in the hallway or the dining room she keeps trying to get up the stairs. I dont want to take the gate off the lounge/hallway because there is no door and i can't pen her in. I dont want her wondering round the dining room/hallway as the lounge is nice and safe and all the stuff from the lounge, shelves etc i had to take out once she got mobile now live in the dining room and ive no where else to move them to if i give her a free run of those rooms too. She is ok when supervised but i'm finding it difficult to keep her off the stairs when i'm hanging washing up in the dining room or ironing or whatever else.

Dh is moaning and saying i should just move the gate from the lounge/hallway and give her the run of downstairs but its too much hard work and i'd end up standing in teh hallway all day long trying to keep an eye on her, at least when she is penned into the lounge i can sit and Damz 8) whilst i watch her :oops:

[popinjay1]

I would say definitely on the first straight step 3steps up because I think it would be safest there. I doubt William would do much harm if he tumbled down the first few steps.

[Diddlum]

We haven't even got one on the bottom of the stairs! :shock: We've got one across the kitchen door and a spare that we haven't used yet. Niamh can climb to the top of the stairs really easily, and did straight away really (I mean from the first time she did it, she was confident and capable!), so you might find William is the same anyway. It doesn't worry me at all that we haven't got one there! She's fallen down the bottom couple of stairs a couple of times, but no harm done. She cried for a minute or two then was back on the stairs again. :)