Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel I'm here to save you time
and money and today how to fit a stair gate all you're going to need for today is this
and this oh, right let's get cracking now you may want to fit a stair gate because you've got
a puppy in the house or you've got young children and most people would install a stairgate at the
top and the bottom of the stairs and for the purpose of this demonstration I'm just going
to install this one at the top of the stairs so let's just climb the stairs and this is the
stair gate that I'm going to be installing here now this is a Mothercare stair gate
and it has the handle there which locks it into place and we've got four bolts in each corner
now all of these bolts are designed to slide in and out which is where you get the adjustment from
and then I'll explain how that all works as we install it with the locking nuts
a quick demonstration here as I'm tightening this nut
up that is pushing the bolt and the rubber pad outwards against the wall
first thing you need to do is just offer it up to the place where you're going to be installing it
now just be very careful doing this if you're at the top of the stairs obviously it'd be a
lot easier with two hands I'm filming with one hand and trying to install it with the other hand
just line it up so it's generally in the middle of the frame of the staircase
obviously it's very loose at this point
now with these nuts what you're doing is you're tightening them up
clockwise as you're facing inwards so as you're facing the bolt by tightening up that nut that
pushes the bolt and the clamp outwards but you can just pull it out like this
and then tighten that nut up with your fingers that is the locking nut which locks it into place
now we can tighten that up further a bit later on in this video but for the moment we're just
going to hand tighten it just so the frame sits nice and still within the two walls so
I've just pulled this bolt out and I'm just going to tighten this nut up with my fingers and thumb
and then we've just got the one at the top again just push it out towards the wall
and then tighten up that locking nut, and there's a link above
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and then a few more turns just with your thumb and fingers
and that should hold it rigidly in place against the walls but
obviously it needs tightening up so don't think that we're finished yet
by hand tightening those three nuts that should hold the frame in place
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tip, and I'm just going to open the stair gate here and we've got enough tension for it to
actually hold itself in place now the rigidity of this frame is on these three bolts here
and what we do now is you tighten up these locking nuts with a spanner
again you're tightening these clockwise as you're facing inwards and that's pushing
the bolt out towards the wall therefore tightening the whole frame up against itself
so let's do this one now don't go mad to start with just make sure you gradually
do each one on each corner and just another quick word of caution if you're tightening up
against a plasterboard wall that's got no timber behind it that can
be very frail so you don't want to put too much pressure on a plasterboard wall
let's just tighten this one up
now by tightening these three bolts up this keeps it nice and rigid in the frame
and the final adjustment we do on the handle locking mechanism I'm just going to carry on
tightening up the bolts here with a little help from Daisy she wants to know what's going on!
And there's a link above now about how to check your car battery using a multimeter,
and I'm happy with the tightness of the frame now I'm just going to open the gate
and the rigidity of the frame is on these three bolts here and it's nice and secure
I've tightened all those three bolts up with the locking nuts
so it's nice and firm and the final adjustment is to adjust the locking handle mechanism and we do
that over here so just undo this locking and what you can do is you can get a good firm grip on this
and by tightening it clockwise this is actually moving into the frame
now let's see if it shuts no it's still banging against the wall so that's no good
so i just need to tighten that inwards again so this is basically going into the frame
because what you want is you want about a three or four millimetre gap when it's closed in the
frame before you lock it into place and there's a link above now about how to keep your washing
machine hygienically fresh still needs adjusting slightly so I'm just going to keep turning it
once you've got it into the correct position
that's just about perfect you can then tighten up the locking nut
just with your fingers and then when you push that handle down that pushes the bolt and the
pad outwards and locks it all into place now I'm just going to come around the other side here
to demonstrate it from the other side it's a little bit clearer we lift it up over the frame
and then we pull that handle down and that pushes it against the wall
and locks it firmly into place now this is absolutely rigid in place
and to undo it you just push the button on that handle mechanism
pull that lever upwards lift the whole gate up and then open it
lock it back down. Job done. If you found that video useful please subscribe by pressing this
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