How to heat a passivehouse with cats

Loanranger21

I have the ideal solution: just go and live in the local Cats Protection cat place. Or, if you want something a bit more fancy, try one of those licensed catteries. I hear they do a nice !!!!!! tail around happy hour.

Lorian

Alnat1 said:

I've yet to find a well insulated cat flap, they all cause a huge draught. If anyone finds one, please post details

Sureflap microchip flaps cause no drraughts and seal nicely, and keep the neighborhood cats out, but there is some heatloss due to the flap being perspex. Of course they are ££ to buy.

Green_hopeful

Ok. Someone mentioned cats need to go in and out of doors with a compulsion that matches their need to sit in any cardboard box. 

It’s pretty draughty with the door open and that is just the internal door to a not heated hallway. And I think I was averaging 15 seconds between a cat wanting to go out and one wanting back in (although it is more than usual because we are cat sitting so we currently have five cats upstairs). 

So I thought we might get a cat flap for the internal door to our bedroom. It doesn’t need to be super draught proof but not just a hole in the door. I remember cat flaps being quite noisy. 

Does anyone have a recommendation for a quiet cat flap?

FreeBear

Green_hopeful said: It’s pretty draughty with the door open and that is just the internal door to a not heated hallway. And I think I was averaging 15 seconds between a cat wanting to go out and one wanting back in (although it is more than usual because we are cat sitting so we currently have five cats upstairs). 

So I thought we might get a cat flap for the internal door to our bedroom. It doesn’t need to be super draught proof but not just a hole in the door. I remember cat flaps being quite noisy. 

Does anyone have a recommendation for a quiet cat flap?

15 seconds for a cat to decide whether to come in or go out !!!!

More like 30 minutes with mine.

As for cat flaps in a bedroom door - Much easier to leave the door ajar and let them come & go at their leisure. Ifyou fit a cat flap, they'll just sit at the door squawking until you open it for them.

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ariarnia

we have internal cat flaps. they werent anything special. i think we picked them up from wilko. honestly you dont notice the noise though. the same as we dont notice when the cat jumps up or goes off for a wander. its something your brain just tunes out unless you're watching for it. 

Green_hopeful

FreeBear said

15 seconds for a cat to decide whether to come in or go out !!!!

More like 30 minutes with mine.

As for cat flaps in a bedroom door - Much easier to leave the door ajar and let them come & go at their leisure. Ifyou fit a cat flap, they'll just sit at the door squawking until you open it for them.

15 seconds from going out to wanting to come back in but with five cats there is a lot of coming and going and quite a bit of plucking on the carpet etc trying to express the urgency of the situation. The youngest one is trying to get her paw under the door and doing some interesting gymnastics in the process. If you leave the door ajar they open it wide and I have to get up anyway.

It is really draughty in our hall hence the lack of heating. 

Alnat1

When a cat's at the door wanting to go out you get up to open the door. The cat then walks in 3 big circles, sits down, licks it's paw and cleans its face, then gets up and walks out. Same with a cat yowling to come in, as soon as you open the door it walks away for a few minutes.

Cats have to prove to their human that they are in charge and the human is merely a servant.