Cat flaps and glass doors

[RockCrushesLizard]

We're moving house shortly, and have a cat flap dilemma.

The access to the garden (at the back) is though glass door, into a conservatory, which then has double glazed french doors to the garden. The only other garden access is from the street, through the garage, which has a back door to the garden, but no connecting door to the house.

Our two cats have always had garden access, so we need to work out how to make it work. Where can we put a flap, or are there alternatives I'm missing?
Thanks

Cat flap through an external wall, perhaps beside a door?

Or cat flap into garage and cat flap through wall to inside of house?

A friend of mine has a two-cat flap combination, just as you describe. One through an internal glass door, one out of a conservatory. Getting cat flaps into glass doors is certainly doable, but you'll need a glazier to cut the hole.

So you can put a flap in double glazed doors? I didn't know that. I've put a number in wooden doors over the years.

We thought about through a wall, but the walls are thirteen inches thick (old house), so that's the last resort option!

I didn't think you could put a cat flap into double glazing? Ours is in the exterior wall which is a cavity one. I had to buy about 8cat flap extenders toile it long enough to go through. Our cat seems happy with her"tunnel".

We have a catflap in a double glazed glass door. Basically, we bought a catflap and gave it to a double glazing firm , along with the glass panel measurements. They then put the catflap into a new glass panel and came out and replaced the old glass panel with the new panel with the catflap in.

We still have the original panel in the shed in case we ever need to put it back!

That's excellent Watto - sounds like a perfect solution. Thanks.

Yes, you can put a cat flap in double glazing.

Double glazing company would need to produce a new piece of glass for you. They can't just cut a hole in the existing one...

We have a cat flap in a double glazed French window. Cost about £300 if I remember correctly (am in the SE) But was easy for the glazier to take out the old panel and put in the new one and we've kept the old panel just in case.

Think it would be cheaper to get a builder to cut a hole in the wall!

Which is why I suggested it. Plus I don't like the appearance of cat flaps in glazing. We had the glass bottom panel of a double glazed door replaced with upvc with the cat flap in it. Now the poor cat has gone to the big cat basket in the sky we might put the glass panel back in.

Ours was nowhere near 300 quid, more like 50. However, this was about 8 years ago in Wales and it was a fairly small glass panel (about one third the size of the back door).

My mum had a similar set up as above, where she basically got the door replaced with a cat flap in and the old door is in the shed so she can swap it back if she moves

We've got a cat flap in a wall that's probably about the same sort of thickness (we had the same kind of problems as you but with the added fun of bifold doors). It's a bit like a tunnel, but the cats seem to cope with it quite well. The builder cut it out for us, and then we got the inside lined with marine ply.

Thanks everyone - it seems like we have a couple of options there, but that it's a solvable problem. Mumsnet always knows!

We've got a sureflap microchip cat flap in an external wall. They do extention kits you can buy to create a little tunnel which fits through the wall. Had it for two years and have recently moved it to another location in the kitchen with no issues