This is a very simple question but I'm stumped.
I've given up trying to use a pressure fitting baby gate - it was a lazy option anyway.
But how do I install a screw fix gate when the skirting board means that the upper part and bottom part of the gate is not flush (and the skirting is slightly curved)?
Do you mean that the protruding skirting fouls the bottom of the gate? If thats the case screw a batten to the wall & fix the gate to that & a batten opposite for the catch.
Picture of baby gate would help.
Not sure what you mean, but can't the gate be installed above, or resting on top of the skirting boards?
I must admit mind, that it's around 40 years since I had to do that sort of job and I'm a bit rusty on that sort of technology. ;-)
Cash
Thanks Cash and Medway.
I haven't even been alive for 40 years ;-) Not far off though.
I think I'm going to have to admit failure on this one - although it should be simple it's not really a job that you can afford to botch. Oh well, I might try again on the weekend.
Can you take a photo of the problem?
Gareth,
Is it possible for you to post a picture of the job on
Cash
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I used a pressure type gate a while back that came with shallow cups to fit to the door (or stair) opening. The cups stopped the pressure pads slipping around and the whole thing worked quite well. Does your rejected one have those?
As to the new one, a pic really would help show the problem, tinypic is my fave upload site too.
No directly related but hope may save an nasty accident. In our bathroom we had a towel, rail mounted a couple of feet above a cork-topped laundry box. When she was a youngster our daughter climbed on the laundry box and decided the towel rail was an exercise bar! The bar pulled out and she fell backwards onto the bathroom floor. Apart from the shock of it, she was T.G. fine but the cast bath was not far away. I write this in the hope that other mums and dads will watch out for this one. I still feel guilty about being so incompetent to this day - almost 30 years ago...
They have to learn caution at some point. If it hadn't been the bathroom, it would have been somewhere else. You are officially absolved of all blame :-)
Indeed so - but need help when young.
Not necessarily.
Well it was something I felt I should have seen. Parents - check your bathroom now. But thanks your for the absolution Stuart. :-)
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