When we moved from Meadowside we brought the stairgates with us. These were the standard ‘off the shelf’ type which adjust to fit different width stairways. . . . . or so they would have you believe. The stairs at Ponsforth however are much too wide for any shop bought gate to adjust to.
So, needed to make something to stop little monkeys practising their mountaneering on the stairs.
Fortuitously when we removed the wet room we salvaged a number of pieces of 3×2 which I reused to make some stairgates to fit our stairs.
Very basic joinery here. Screws, glue, butt joints and edges rounded over with the router. Very simple but very solid and very effective. So far neither of the two ‘inmates’ has escaped through them 
