Fitting a cat flap in a cavity wall

Bertie129

Hi all,

I have been quoted £265 to fit a cat flap into a cavity wall into the kitchen. This excludes the cost of cat flaps which we'll provide. My thinking was we'll have a microchip catflap for the inside wall and a standard flap for the outside wall. The builder will put a tunnel through the cavity joining the two.

I thought this might be more secure and less drafty than putting one in a double glazed glass window, which is our only other option. Plus, easier for the cats to access rather than having to jump up to the window ledge outside!

Does this quote sound right?

Thanks!

wallbash

£265 to knock out a few bricks and reline the hole?

Get a second quote, or Like me DIY.
I lined with a few off cuts of ply and it didn't cost me a penny

Gloomendoom

I'd do it diy too. No need to line if you use tunnel extension pieces...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/PetSafe-Staywell-Deluxe-Tunnel-Extension/dp/B000LXY5GQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

arbroath_lass

Microchip catflaps have a canopy where the reader is located - you might need to fit the microchip catflap to the outside.

Babbawah

2 cats used to own me and they both, reluctantly, allowed me to live in THEIR house on the condition that I paid all the bills and generally kept the place neat and tidy, with an emphasis on 'cat friendly'.

As part of this arrangement, I was often called upon to fix minor problems or alterations to THEIR living space myself, only being allowed the horrific expense and inconvenience of calling in professionals for the biggest of jobs.

I knew that they required a cat flap but I resisted their psychological torture on the basis that the cat flap that can control how much live, semi live or even dead animals/food they bring home has yet to be invented.

If you don't understand this then you don't own a cat !

Bertie129

Thanks, will get other quotes. I'm rubbish at DIY! I can barely use a hammer...

Gloomendoom

Babbawah wrote: »

I knew that they required a cat flap but I resisted their psychological torture on the basis that the cat flap that can control how much live, semi live or even dead animals/food they bring home has yet to be invented.

Actually, it has been invented. I read an article a while back written by a chap who was fed up with the presents that his cat was bringing him so he made a device that compared his cat's profile on approaching the catflap to a stored, nothing in it's mouth, normal profile. If the profiles didn't match, the catflap wouldn't open.

rustyboy21

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Actually, it has been invented. I read an article a while back written by a chap who was fed up with the presents that his cat was bringing him so he made a device that compared his cat's profile on approaching the catflap to a stored, nothing in it's mouth, normal profile. If the profiles didn't match, the catflap wouldn't open.

It wouldn't work with my cat. Although she is small, she packs a punch! I locked the cat flap up, to stop her going out in the night and thought just to make sure, I would put gaffer tape ( the plastic type for seaming carpets together) over it too.


Got up in the morning for work to find no cat in the house, the gaffer tape shredded to pieces and the cat flap pushed open. She had pushed so hard, it had been forced over the locking mechanism and stuck in a semi open position.


I am sure she is the hulk in disguise ! :rotfl: