Smart RetractReviews of smartretract.com

Not at all happy with my purchase of this gate; such a bad decision I have made. I find it to be quite bothersome to box up & return merchandise, therefore I am going to try & live with this bad decision of purchase. I don't know how you could possibly help me now but thanks anyway Peggy Scalf

De Smart Retract belooft veel en ziet er goed uit, maar het doet niet waarvoor ik het kocht. Het duurde 3 dagen vooraleer onze kat doorhad dat ze over de strak gespannen doek gewoon kon kruipen als ze maar doortastend genoeg was. Daarna hebben we retract-a-gate "los" gelaten en dus niet opgespannen, maar het duurde opnieuw slechts een week en genoeg frustratie vooraleer onze kat zelfs op die losgespannen doek omhoog kon klauteren. We hadden dit gekocht om onze kat uit onze (open) slaapkamer te houden terwijl onze baby ligt te slapen, maar dat werkt dus absoluut niet. Een dure grap die nu weinig nut heeft tenzij mijn kat plots 5kg aankomt en niet meer wil klauteren.

It’s an easy gate to use but it’s not good for cats. I was very disappointed as the ad stated it was a pet gate. My new kittens scaled it the very first day. It does nothing to keep them either in or out of anywhere. Very easy to climb. I was disappointed because I basically bought it for nothing.

It appears to be made soundly, but it is very difficult to operate if you are actively using it. Requires two hands since the 3 separate latching areas are constantly being pulled back by the spring retract. Can't ever get the bottom to latch or unlatch with out substantial extra effort. We have medium size and smaller dogs and they just push underneath the screen mesh to get through. Not effective in the least bit. At least not for us, others may have different results. I think the idea is great, but the execution of it is awful. Too bad, because they are really expensive.

Hello i bought 4 smart retract gates. At first things were great we loved how they retracted and weren't in the way when the babies were in bed. But after about a month or so my babies figured out to slip underneath the gates!!! No matter how tight we lock it or how low we fixed it to the ground. It's a shame because the idea of it is great but doesn't really serve its purpose. It's not rigid enough and the mesh is easily pushed up. So now I'm dealing with 4 useless gates in my home. I do not recommend them to anyone unless some improvements are made for the bottom part of the gate. I'm disappointed in this product. I really thought more effort would be put into designing a gate for the safety of the kids and stairs! I mean isn't that the whole purpose of the gate ..?? Imagine the horror when I watched my 9 month old slip underneath it and start to make her way up the stairs!!

This is a solid product- but didn't work for us. We have it mounted flush to the floor and our dog (about 40 lbs/ medium) just slides right under- so it is not useful for us. At this cost this was disappointing. It is visually unobtrusive and wish it had worked! It reaches across our wide doorway and is not hard to operate.

Attractive-looking and easy to fit thanks to good instructions, but there the positive aspects end as far as a pet gate goes. I bought this "gate" to keep our rotund, 16-year-old, cat in the back kitchen at night. Our cat is not the fittest or most energetic of animals, but charges through under the gate - even though locked as required - at top speed to get to the other side, where the grass is evidently greener. Definitely a waste of money in our case.

Way too expensive for what we got. Spend several hundred dollars to "upgrade" and keep our dogs contained and they don't even do that. One dog just slips underneath. The anchors keep ripping out of the wall so my husband bought heavy duty anchors and they STILL get ripped out. I had such high hopes for these gates and have been severely disappointed.