Well, the gate is fine if you never take it down, I guess. However, we use it to keep our dogs out of our living room, and when we have company we like to fold it up and put it away. Even though we loosen them before closing, the plastic tensioning knobs at the swivel joints have bound up and cracked in half, rendering the gate useless. For $100, I expected more. This is a poor design, compounded by cheap materials. Summer, you need to fire the engineer behind this garbage!