To put the cat flap into a conservatory?

[GirlofInkandStars]

I’m struggling to find a suitable place to put a cat flap in my new house.
The easiest ( and cheapest) option would be to fit it into an unheated conservatory. There is then another internal door between this and the rest of the house - which is kept closed in the colder months of the year. Dcat would then have to wait in the conservatory to be let in and out ( we are wfh so there is someone home most of the time…
Shes not allowed out at night so this would just be during the day time.

AIBU to only give access to the conservatory (so out of wind and rain and secure from other cats - with a
chipped cat flap… and not the nice warm house?

What type of door do you have in the conservatory? It’s a right pain getting cat flaps in glass doors. Could you not put two flaps in? One into the conservatory and then another in the internal door to the rest of the house?

The conservatory has a single thickness brick wall to about 60 cm high with windows above. The cat flap will go through there - or we have to get it built in to a new sealed unit in the double glazing. Which then means adding a step/ platform. The internal doors are original French windows which is rather not mess about with…

It's fine, provided she will have water and somewhere comfortable to lie down. Maybe get one of those smart cat flaps too, that open to an electronic chip in her collar, so other animals can't follow her in if she is stuck in there during bad weather etc.

You could possibly also add a smart camera with the app on your phone to give you notifications of when she is in there.

We did exactly this - had one of the glass panes replaced. The guy did it in about an hour: easy! We just keep the inner door open a crack.

You don’t actually need a cat flap though. We do have one in our French doors, but it’s only open when we’re in the house. When we’re away we have a cat sitter and the cats don’t go out at all.

I'd put in a nice cat tree with a comfortable bed near the top so she's got somewhere to snooze if she does have spend time in there, and of course a litter tray and water bowl, that would be fine. And a camera as per PP suggestion, so you know if she's in there.

We don't have a cat flap at all, have a garden room extension - with no internal doors between it and the house, tut tut - so if cat wants out she has to get our attention and ask. Ditto coming in, but our cat is a hunter and I don't want her bringing victims in. If I get the house altered I'd put in the cat flap that detects when the resident cat has a victim...

Thanks - she currently has a favourite armchair in the conservatory- has poop pooed the cat bed we bought her.. it’s one of her favourite places in the summer- but just had a few doubts about what happens when the weather changes!

Our conservatory gets ridiculously hot in the summer. There’s no way a DCat would be ok in there.

She wouldn’t be in there in summer- the door are just left open. We just need a solution for the cold weather

Put a heated pad on her chair for the winter? They're not expensive and there are ones designed for cats/dogs. Look up heated whelping pads.

We had this. The only place to put a cat flap was in the conservatory wall. Which we did. But I had to have the conservatory door open at night to come and go and it was cold in the morning. And had to have it open during the day if I wasn’t there and was cold during the day. But I didn’t have another option.

We did this, easy. A glass shop (sell windows and glass doors) came and changed the glass panel in the conservatory door for one that was stronger and did the catflap at the same time. 300 quid I think.

My cats have a front door flap, but in winter it's into a non heated house as I never put my heating on! They've got fur coats.

Sorry I totally misread this. Is the conservatory that bad? Our cats love it in there, leave out nice blankets, they don’t feel the cold like us