cat flaps

alison6692

Hello

I am sure that someone will be able to help me on this one.

We are hoping to get ourselves a new furry friend from the local blue cross. However we do have a slight problem. Cat Flaps.

Our back door is glass and I have found some cat flaps for glass doors, but how on earth do you do it?

Does anyone have experience fitting one?

Or any other suggestions? Thanks

Alison

xxx

trafalgar_2

If it's double glazed you need to get it done properly because it breaks the seal :-/

If it's single glazed you can just cut the glass yourself and fit it

alison6692

Thankyou, now thats not so money saving - as I reckon it will involve new pane of glass or even door?

::)

trafalgar_2

Yep I have 2 cats...............no catflap though as it was going to cost me £175...............double glazed patio door :-/

So I open the door instead ;D

divadee

at my old flat we used to leave one of the tiny windows open and she would use that as a cat flap.

Yoga_Girl

We got a local glass company to fit a new pane of glass with the cat flap in on our old back door, don't think it was too expensive. When we replaced the door with double glazing we had the cat-flap fitted at the same time so it didn't cost any extra.

Does the cat-flap need to be in the back door? My neighbour has a cat flap in the small pane of glass next to her front door, I've also seen some people with cat-flaps in the garage door. I think the main thing is the cat having access to some shelter if you're not about to open the door.

Despite having a cat-flap though one of our cats, who's elderly, refuses to use the cat-flap and we have to open the back door for her! And one of my other cats goes out via the cat-flap, then goes round to the front door and sits there, miaowing, until we let him in!

alison6692

Yeah it does have to be back door as front door is a busy road - will probably be a very flat furry friend.

We don't have little windows - so I think its going to be a new door or something similar.

Cheers you lot :-*

Man was asking me about cat flaps and I said, don't worry I will ask everyone at MSE as I knew you would have some answers.

squarecat

Rather than going into the house is there a shed our outbuilding that can provide shelter from the elements, our 2 both have to use the door and have a cat flap into the shed for incliment weather.

jaybee

My cat refuses to use the cat flap if she can see me in the kitchen - just keeps on lifting it up and letting drop back like a door knocker. She manages just fine when there's nobody in! Pampurred puss.

alison6692

Aww bless!!! that why we want a little moggy. Not going to happen for a while yet.

stormCat99

Have you considered a cat flap through the wall? We had the same problem as you when we bought a nearly new house. We had glass patio doors, and so unless we replaced the whole glass panes we couldn't get a flap in the door.

It was much easier than I thought it would be. Borrowed a friend's masonry drill, then drill around where I wanted the hole from outdoors, and then same from outdoors, and were able to knock out the brick with a mallett (we did get a builder friend to advise us on the structural safety of doing so first, but in the position we wanted to make the hole it was not a problem thankfully).

There are a few tunnel style catflaps on the market, we've got a Staywell 400 model. You buy the catflap (this model is magnetic as well), and then buy as many tunnel sections as you need for the depth of your wall. Only took a couple of hours to fit and now both our cats are happy, and we are happy! ;D ;D