I wish I had listened to the review from "Disappointed" as it would have saved me a lot of frustration. Thinking I could "Jerry Rig" something together, all I did was manage to scrape paint off the banister. The Installation Kit doesn't work on square iron rod banisters. When I got it to a size that I thought fit, it doesn't hold and the bracket slides down! My husband couldn't get it tighten any more. Also the holes in the brackets don't match up to those on the gate.