Can you put a cat flap in a double glazed door?

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I'd love our cat/kitten (9mths) to be able to get out in to the garden at night when we go to bed and he's put away in the dinning room. But the door in there is one of those double glazed jobbies and I'm not sure if you can put a cat flap in it? We do have a cat flap in the kitchen back door but we can't put him away in there at night as there is no door on the kitchen and I don't want him roaming the house and disturbing us. Any ideas?

I've been looking into this. YOu can't put a cat flap into a double-glazed door or window as it's a vacuum-sealed unit. If it's one of those doors where the top is glass and the bottom is UPVC then you can get the flap put into the bottom panel. But otherwise you will have to have a replacement pane custom made with the flap already in it.

Are you sure he would roam the house and disturb you if he had the run of the place at night? In my experience cats soon learn that there's nothing interesting for them upstairs when all the doors are shut, our cat would just mooch about downstairs at night.

wow, question answered thanks! that's exactly what I wanted to know.

Well Meg I'm not 100% sure but as the DC sometimes stir at 5.30am and I can get them back to sleep the last thing I want is for him to be upstairs too. Also I remember when younger our cats used to bring in their offerings of dead/stunned mice and I don't want them in the house either!

No problem

Our lovely cat died at Easter and DH (not a cat person) is not too keen on another so I've been looking into cat flaps, he hates having the litter tray in the house. But all our doors are fully glazed so think I will have to fork out for a replacement door!

BTW do you know if it's expensive to get a custom made panel for the door?

I haven't got as far as getting a proper quote but from a bit of internet research it looked like for a single door panel you're talking £100-£200.

Lordy that's an expensive cat flap!! Thanks for the info though, saved me doing my research!! Maybe we could try him loose in the house first...

Could you not just put him out at night? and get a little outdoor cat house where he can shelter if it's cold?

We had one in our last house, but we had the hole cut into the glass when the door was being made. It had to be a certain distance away from the edge of the glass so we had to make a step for the cats either side of the door as well.
Our cats don't bother roaming around the house at night - but we do come downstairs to find 'gifts' of mice etc in unexpected places

My in laws have a cat flap in their double glazed sealed unit frenc doors. You have to order the glass and get it done for you.

We had a cat flap put in the wall next to the kitchen door (double glazed unit). The builders knocked a hole through put a wooden "tunnel" inside the wall and the 2 parts of the cat flap outside and inside. Cost us £50.

would he be safe out at night with foxes around?

Ours always have been..........attacks on cats are quite rare because they can jump up eaasily and foxes don't really jump.

Our previous cat bolted out our front door to see off 2 young foxes, then dh went after the cat because there was a vry big mummy fox not that much further up the street......

Hmm, yes I would be a little wary if there are foxes around (my mum's old cat had a nasty leg wound after a run-in with one) although I'm sure cats and foxes must naturally share a lot of territory.

Should be said that my mum's old cat was a bolshy little sod, if yours is more of the sensible type then hopefully he will steer clear of foxes anyway!

ComeOveneer my Mum and Dad had one of those tunnels in our outside wall too, I'd forgotten that! Will have a think about it, although my instinct says he's too little to be shut out (soft me)