Cat Flap Fitter Ingatestone

Cat Flap Fitter Ingatestone Essex (CM4): Installing a cat flap to an exterior door or wall in your Ingatestone house provides your cat with the independence that it needs to live a happy life. Cats tend to get irritated and crabby when constantly kept indoors, and not able to roam. When permitted instant access to the great outdoors with a cat flap, your beloved cat has a far better chance of staying healthy and strong. If you elect to go down the cat flap route, you will then have to determine what is the best type of cat flap for you.

The simplest style of cat flap is essentially that. A piece of flexible material placed over a hole in a doorway to permit a cat to pass through it, but keep out the elements. Obviously, this is extremely basic, and won't be sufficient for most cat owners in Ingatestone, who would no doubt prefer something a bit more secure and weatherproof for an external door to their home, although it might be appropriate for an outhouse or shed door.

This standard model is still a long way off being ideal as it allows other cats or animals a way to get into your house, nonetheless it can be marginally improved on with the addition of magnetic strips to hold the flap in place.

The next step up from the magnetic strip style are RF chip or infra-red, magnetically operated cat flaps. With these, either a magnet, RF or IR chip will be sewn into your cat's collar. Unless an animal is fitted with one of these special collars, it will not be able to open the flap and leave or get into your home, hence keeping out some unwanted visitors. Once again this is a fairly basic form of cat flap, as any other cat in the neighbourhood that's got a similar style of collar may be able to get into your home. An enhancement to this equipment is an RF cat flap/collar system which includes a unique identifier that can be programmed by the cat owner.

A cat flap that is able to identify your pet's micro-chip, is the next level in Ingatestone feline entrance security. You have to enter the details of your cat's microchip into the memory the cat flap (which is battery powered), and if you have several cats it will accept multiple entries. The flap will be unfastened anytime your cat is nearby, only allowing entry or exit to pets that are microchipped.

When you are buying a cat flap, you should ensure that it is of a type that can be locked into position. The majority of cat flaps sold currently feature a four way locking system. Which means that the cat flap can allow exit from your premises only, be fully locked, enable only entrance into your home, or be set for two-way entry and exit. This provides you with a range of alternatives on precisely how your cat flap operates any time of the day and night. Some more expensive devices can be set to carry out specific functions in accordance with the time of day, in line with your pet's and your requirements.

If you are pretty good at do-it-yourself, installing your own cat flap should not be too difficult, as long as you have a solid wood door on your house in Ingatestone. Although, if it needs to be installed into a double glazed window panel or in a reinforced uPVC door, you should not even attempt to tackle it yourself. Such situations require the expertise and skills of a competent cat flap fitter or carpenter, who is certain to have have the knowledge and equipment for this sort of installation project.

INSTALLING A CAT FLAP IN INGATESTONE

Double Glazing Installation - If you bring in a so-called "tradesman" who, while trying to install your cat flap, starts to drill a hole in a double glazed door or window panel, immediately send them on their way. It is simply not possible to fit a new cat flap into a double glazed window pane or door panel. Drilling or cutting into any sort of double glazing will damage its security and strength, as well as its thermal properties. In reality, it renders the glazing unsafe and it shouldn't ever be attempted.

It is necessary to get a new double glazing unit made specially for this purpose by a glazing firm, and your chosen Ingatestone cat flap installer will take the measurements of your existing panel and order a brand new one. As part of its construction this new pane will have a pre-cut hole, which the cat flap can be installed perfectly into. This is the only way to fit a cat flap into an existing patio or double glazed door, although it can take a week or more to produce. Once you have obtained your new glass pane, the old unit can be taken out and the new panel fitted. The installing of your cat flap will then be concluded.

External Wooden Doors - Solid wooden door panels are, as we stated previously, the simplest options for installing a new cat flap in Ingatestone. It is usually best to contact an experienced carpenter or cat flap fitter, if you are in any way uncomfortable with creating a hole in your front or back door. This kind of project won't be all that expensive and is worth doing properly, if getting your cat flap expertly installed offers you that additional peace of mind.

uPVC Door Panels - It's perfectly feasible to fit a cat flap into a uPVC door. You'll have to verify what the interior construction of you door is, since for additional security certain uPVC door panels are manufactured with a reinforced steel lining. The models of door with a one-piece panel are the best for cat flap installation, so if yours has got a slatted type panel, it may be easier to replace this with a single panel.

Wall Installation - It's also a possibility to get a cat flap mounted into an exterior wall of your house in Ingatestone, if you don't wish to cut holes in your doors, for security or aesthetic reasons. This kind of installation is certainly better left to the pros, since it requires far more equipment and skill to accomplish. Almost all cat flap installations in walls involve a simple straight tunnelled style, however right angle access through a pillar is also a possibility. A square shaped hole will be cut through your wall, into which is inserted a plastic or metal, square open ended tube. A suitable cat flap can then be fitted to both ends of the hole.

Replacing an Existing Cat Flap in Ingatestone - If you've already got a cat flat, but it is either broken or not operating properly, the current hole in your door, wall or window can be used for a replacement as long as the new cat flap is of a comparable size. You local cat flap installer will remove the unwanted cat flap, without causing damage to the wall, door or window, and install a new flap in its place for your cat.

Before fitting the new cat flap in a double glazed pane which has been pre-cut, confirming that the existing glass has been cut and installed accurately is crucial. If it's found this isn't the case, and corners were cut in the original installation, the glass pane will have to be taken out and replaced with a new one to avoid any security and safety problems.

FINDING A CAT FLAP INSTALLER IN INGATESTONE

In the Ingatestone area there are a number of handyman contractors, specialist cat flap fitters and even double glazing companies who provide cat flap fitting services in doors, windows or walls. There are several ways of finding a competent cat flap fitter, and few compare with the option of asking relatives and friends. If they have had comparable work carried out by a local Ingatestone tradesman, and been pleased with the outcome, you can anticipate that they will do a good quality job for you too.

Where a personal recommendation is not possible, get 2 or 3 quotes from local Ingatestone tradesmen. Study these quotes closely and do not always opt for the cheapest quote, as this will often not be the best. Try to get written warranties for the standard of their workmanship, so if things do happen to go wrong you've got some recourse to compensation.

An experienced cat flap installation contractor in Ingatestone will supply you with a quality product, skillfully fitted, and one which will last you, and your cat, for many years.

Cat flaps can be installed in Ingatestone and also in: Pilgrims Hatch, Stondon Massey, Mountnessing, Stock, Margaretting, Nine Ashes, Mill Green, Doddinghurst, Hutton, Blackmore, Highwood, Kelvedon Hatch, Fox Hatch, Herongate, and in these postcodes CM4 0NE, CM4 0DR, CM4 0PP, CM4 0AQ, CM4 0BQ, CM4 0DU, CM4 0BH, CM4 9DN, CM4 0PL, CM4 9EZ. Locally based Ingatestone cat flap fitters will likely have the dialling code 01277 and the postcode CM4. Checking this out will ensure that you are accessing a locally based cat flat fitter. Ingatestone home and business owners are able to benefit from these and countless other comparable services.

Ingatestone Cat Flap Installation Tasks

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Cat Flap Fitters Near Ingatestone

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Cat Flap Installation Around Ingatestone

Cat flaps have recently been installed in these Ingatestone roads and streets - Ingatestone By-pass, The Belvoir, Trueloves Lane, The Quorn, Tudor Close, Gatehouse Mews, Exley Close, Willow Green, Norton Road, Blackmore Road, Bakers Mews, Poplar Close, Rectory Close, Chestnut Court, Mill Lane, The Paddocks, The Heythrop, Barrington Place, Hall Lane, Cameron Close, Whadden Chase, Wadham Close, Fryerning Lane, Ridgeway, Pine Close, Meads Close, as well as the following local Ingatestone postcodes: CM4 0NE, CM4 0DR, CM4 0PP, CM4 0AQ, CM4 0BQ, CM4 0DU, CM4 0BH, CM4 9DN, CM4 0PL, CM4 9EZ. These areas recently saw activity by an expert cat flap fitter. Ingatestone property owners were given professional and dependable cat flap installation services in every case.

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