Installation Woes
Nov. 16th, 2025 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperWe decided to install a baby gate at the top of the stairs to keep Calvin, The Very Hungry Dog (a.k.a., The Appetite on Four Legs; a.k.a. Dr. Chew-It-All) on the first floor which is both much more dog-proof than the upstairs and also not a zone where Sunshine the Cat (a.k.a. What Do You Mean, *Dog*?!) tends to wander. Also, it keeps Calvin from eating all of Sunshine's food. This is all a great theory.
I bought an extra tall gate so that I could get it to hit the flat part of both banisters at the top of the stairs. Unfortunately, this particular gate design has a plastic ramp that sits on the ground and if it is installed so that you hit the banister posts, then the edge of the ramp goes over the lip of the step, which is a Bad Idea (TM).
Ok. Let me install the gate on the landing instead. Except if I put a 36 inch tall gate on the landing so that the foot is in the right position, then it doesn't contact the banister post there. A 30 inch tall gate will work.
The 36 inch tall gate is now tagged to return to Amazon tomorrow and a 30 inch tall gate of the same design is now on order.
I have now failed at two consecutive weekend projects, which is starting to annoy me.
I am going to go get the recording laptop and record some scratch tracks. I *could* do this in the studio, except I would have to do more rewiring under the console and that seems counterproductive...
I bought an extra tall gate so that I could get it to hit the flat part of both banisters at the top of the stairs. Unfortunately, this particular gate design has a plastic ramp that sits on the ground and if it is installed so that you hit the banister posts, then the edge of the ramp goes over the lip of the step, which is a Bad Idea (TM).
Ok. Let me install the gate on the landing instead. Except if I put a 36 inch tall gate on the landing so that the foot is in the right position, then it doesn't contact the banister post there. A 30 inch tall gate will work.
The 36 inch tall gate is now tagged to return to Amazon tomorrow and a 30 inch tall gate of the same design is now on order.
I have now failed at two consecutive weekend projects, which is starting to annoy me.
I am going to go get the recording laptop and record some scratch tracks. I *could* do this in the studio, except I would have to do more rewiring under the console and that seems counterproductive...