We bought this gate for our new deck, to keep our curious toddler off the stairs. The gate is great, and the latch is definitely easy for an adult and impossible for a toddler, but I was surprised that a gate that calls itself an outdoor gate has parts that need to be waterproofed for outdoor use! For the cost of the gate and the name of the gate I would have thought it would come weatherproofed, or made completely of materials that can be used outside.