Pet Gates, The Basics – How Many Gates Do You Need
Believe it or not, this is the biggest area of confusion for most people looking to buy their first pet gate. Pet gates can be very versatile, and can offer the potential to place a single gate in multiple locations.
Before taking your space measurements, you first need to determine if there are multiple locations within your home that would require some sort of barrier for pet safety or for pet isolation.
Most new pet owners prefer to isolate their pet in the kitchen area until it is better trained or while the pet is alone in the home. However what you also need to think about is that as you expand the areas that your pet is allowed into, you still may not want to give your pet free access to the entire house.
Now you need to setup a pet gate in another area of the home such as a hallway or the top or bottom of a staircase. Will the gate that you purchased for the kitchen work for the hallway or as a staircase barrier?
If you can envision the initial need and all of the potential future needs, then you can refine the requirements of your initial gate and either eliminate or reduce the need for future pet gate purchases.
The typical areas to consider for pet gates would include kitchen doorways, hallways, arches between rooms, the bottom of each staircase, the top of each staircase, patio doors and entrance vestibules.
You can’t always find pet gates that will satisfy all situations, but at list you can make your first gate as versatile as is possible.