Best wide-span gate for a Weimaraner

Open-plan living with a two-year-old Weimaraner — that's a serious containment challenge. Gate choice comes down to three things: your dog's size and jumping ability, the width of the opening you need to block, and whether pressure-mounted or wall-mounted is viable (pressure-mounted gates are never safe at the top of stairs, but for wide room dividers it's a different question). To point you at the right product: what's your Weim's approximate weight, are you blocking a staircase or a wide room opening, and is drilling into the wall an option for you?

Good — drilling makes this a lot easier to solve properly. At 180cm and with a dog that can jump a metre, you need two things working together: genuine width coverage and a gate tall enough that jumping over isn't trivial. What's the exact height of that opening? Standard ceilings are fine, but some open-plan conversions have slightly unusual proportions, and it affects whether you need an extension kit.

Perfect, that's actually a cleaner install than a door frame. For this specific setup — 180cm wide, flat plaster edges, a powerful athletic dog, wall-mounting confirmed — I'd go with the Safetots Extra Wide Safety Gate. It's wall-mounted, spans up to 210cm with its included extension panels, stands 76cm tall, and uses a pressure-independent wall-fix system so there's no flex even when a large dog leans or pushes. The gate itself is steel, the latch is one-handed but awkward enough that a determined Weim won't figure it out. At 76cm height he could theoretically jump it, but in practice most Weimaraners don't attempt a standing jump over something solid and opaque in a familiar space — the visual barrier does a lot of work. If he's a known escape artist over barriers you could add a second horizontal rail extension, but most owners in this situation find the standard height holds fine.

It's a fair concern and I won't pretend 76cm is a physical impossibility for a fit Weimaraner. What I'll tell you honestly is that most dogs — including athletic large breeds — don't routinely jump barriers they encounter every day in a domestic context unless they're highly aroused or have learned it gets them somewhere. If he has a history of clearing gates specifically, that changes things. In that case, the Safetots gate has an optional 30cm extension panel that brings it to around 106cm, which is effectively a non-starter for almost any dog. Order the extension at the same time — it's inexpensive and you can fit it straight away rather than waiting to see if he clears it.

Good call getting the extension from the start — much easier than fitting it after the fact. One installation tip: with flat plaster edges on a knocked-through wall, make sure you find the masonry beneath before drilling; plaster alone won't hold the wall cups securely under a 32kg dog's weight. A stud finder or a quick tap-test will tell you where the solid material is. Rawlplug into masonry and you'll have a gate that outlasts the dog's interest in escaping.