Suggestion for cat flap

[kandgmitchell]

Well the air tightness test has been done and comes out at 1.1. So it's time to fit the cat flap. I know, I know that cat flaps let in draughts as well as cats. But we're not going back to trays etc, they'll be able to come and go into the utility room until we're ready to open that door into the rest of the house.

 

So, I need a really decent cat flap - I am aware of the really fancy electric passive house type but that's hundreds of pounds, works by proximity detection and so will be forever opening when we use the side door. No, I need a suggestion for a normal, well made, relatively draught proof cat flap that others have experience of. We've used CatMate in the past on older houses but they tend to swing in the wind. It's got to go into a door and not bothered about checking for microchips or collars.

 

Thanks in anticipation.

[ToughButterCup]

32 minutes ago, kandgmitchell said:

Well the air tightness test has been done and comes out at 1.1. So it's time to fit the cat flap. ...

 

Don't bother. We haven't. We've given them an outside 'hut', it faces downwind and is out of the rain, put a soft, easy-dry lining in.

Result - an initial yodle or two, followed by resigned feline fury : now they put themselves to bed as and when. Keeps the murdered rats, voles, mice, bluetits, wood pigeons at bay.

Result.

 

Don't let a woman near the decision-making process. Just Bloody Do It.

 

Sexist? Yes. Too old to care. It's brilliant being old.

Edited August 12 by ToughButterCup

[ProDave]

Our cat flap enters into the sun room, which is an unheated room outside of the sealed envelope of the house.  It lets the cat in to a relatively warm and dry place and we let her into the house through what is a good pair of external well sealed Rationel doors.

 

One feature of an air tight house, is you can open one window or door without getting much if any through draught.  So in practice but a sealing strip around the door from your utility room to the rest of the house, and you might find the fat flap does not swing wildly in the wind.