Product Review: Evenflo Position and Lock Safety Gate

Evenflo is a trusted name in baby gear. From car seats to strollers, bottles to safety gates, when it comes to the name Evenflo, you expect good things. The Evenflo Position and Lock Safety Gate does not live up to these expectations. Poor materials, cheap construction and ineffective safety, leaves this safety gate at the bottom of the proverbial pile.

The Evenflo Position and Lock Safety Gate measures 24" in height. This height is perfect, even for a short mother like myself. I was easily able to climb over the gate when attached to a doorway.

While the height is perfect, the width leaves much to be desired. The Evenflo Position and Lock Safety Gate is marketed to fit doorways ranging from 26" in width to 42" in width. This is a plain lie. The gate may be sized to fit a 42" doorway, but the construction does not allow the consumer to actually use the gate, in a doorway this wide. Once spread to full width, the gate becomes flimsy and either falls down or breaks in two. Not the safest thing to happen.

Staying on the topic of safety, consumers can only use this safety gate if they live in a home with even doorways. As a person who used this gate in a home built in 1900, I can assure you with uneven doorways, the gate never fit properly. Either the top cushion pad was attached in the doorway and the bottom was not, or vice versa. My twins were forever spinning the gate off and foraging though the house, while I was doing laundry or taking a shower.

The final safety concern I believe should be voiced about the Evenflo Position and Lock Safety Gate, is the large open spaces. Parents always think on a tiny scale when it comes to safety. A hole that seems minuscule to an adult, can fit a little hand easily. The Evenflo Position and Lock Safety Gate is full of nooks and crannies just waiting for tiny hands to get stuck.

Moving away from the safety aspect of the gate. The material used to manufacture the gate, as well as, the construction is sub par at best. I was constantly reassembling the baby gate only to have it fall apart again only minutes later.