Fitting a cat flap

[bobdylannumber1]

I'm returning to work after a long illness, during my time off I got a cat who's 1 and I have a kitten who's about 3 months little kitten isn't allowed out yet as we've only had him 2 weeks, the cat comes in the window at different times of the day and if I'm going out I leave utility window open for her or sometimes if she's in when I'm leaving I just leave her in she's happy but I don't want to be gone all day and leaving the window open I want to get a cat flap I don't want to be leaving doors locked in case of burglary I want the cat to have access to the house as she has a cat tree in sitting room and her bed up high in kitchen she likes both, problem is our back door is a door that you lock by pulling up the handle and locks come out of the side is this even suitable for a cat flap all my doors are like this would we take panel then there might be a metal locks going through it so cat flap can't go in there?

It sounds like my mum's old front door - think it had 5 locks down the side, all operated by the handle. Since the bottom panel was glass I'd have thought you could put a flap in there.

We've just installed a cat flap in a door like that. The locking stuff is in the side of the door, there will (probably) be a panel in the bottom half that doesn't have any locking mechanism in. An electric jigsaw makes cutting the door very easy, just make sure you use the template to mark out exactly where you need to cut.

Thank you I'll look into it do some research to see which ones best.

I've heard of people putting cat flaps in windows or removing bricks and having a tunnel cat flap in the wall, if the door is a no-go.

Not sure of the costs involved

Tunnel through a brick wall isn't THAT expensive to do - just a few bricks get knocked out.

I had mine put in a window - was about £220 for the new sheet of single glazing and fitting. Apparently you can't cut a hole in the window after it has already been toughened. You can have double glazing done too but guess that would be more expensive.

For both glass and tunnel you need a cat flap adapter thing. The glass one was about £6.