Regalo 47-Inch Super Wide Walk Thru Pet/Baby Gate

This product is a fair bit cheaper than a number of the alternative products that I looked at, and that in most ways makes up for the weaknesses of the product. It's generally a get what you paid for deal, however the product does advertise itself to be a pressure mount installation (meaning you shouldn't have to drill any holes) and I just don't think that's really the case. The biggest issue I think most people will realize with the gate is that the overall structure is a bit flimsy. The upright section on the left and right of the pass-thru opening are not strong enough. This means that when you crank down on the rubber feet that secure the gate in between 2 walls, you can go too far and actually flex the uprights inwards. When this happens, the lock/latch mechanism will not work properly and you effectively can't open the gate door. Basically it's pinched in on itself. So you have to back off the tension on the rubber feet things till the latch opens again. The tension in the rubber feet at this point is only 'so-so' and therefore the gate isn't super firmly wedged in between whatever two walls you're attached to. My daughter nearly busted her head (grandma caught her) when 5 minutes after being installed, she went and 'hung' on it and pulled it right out of the opening on our stairs, falling to the ground with the gate on top of her. She was just over a year old and probably weighed 20 lbs; so if she can yank it out, anything can. In defense of the gate, it probably says somewhere in the instructions that you have to screw the plastic cups into the wall so the rubber feet can't slide out. My issue, and probably a lot of people, is that I didn't want to have to put screw holes in my walls, or specifically in my case into my newel posts, hence why I bought a "pressure mounted" gate in the first place. If they built the gate sturdier, you'd be able to really wrench down on the rubber feet, and friction alone would secure the gate. The problem with this gate is that it's just too flimsy and cranking down on the rubber feet bends the thing in on itself and the gate wont open. You can see from my photos that I got creative with some zip-ties, wooden blocks, and padding. I was ultimately able to secure the gate firmly without having to drill holes in my newel posts. Some of the work I had to do was related to my newel posts being thicker at bottom than at the top and therefore the gate spacing was different top and bottom. There probably isn't a gate on the market that would accommodate this without something custom. I've had the gate installed for about 2 years now and haven't had any issues with it. The latch mechanism and gate hinge are simple and work fine, they work the same today as they did 2 years go. The gate is probably 3.5 stars, but since I have to pick between 3 or 4, and the average person may not be willing or capable to do what I did to secure the gate without putting holes in the wall, 3 stars it is.