Dog door / flap fitted in to glass door.

[Sandstone1]

Has anyone had a dog door or flap fitted in to a glass door? Any ideas or recommendations please.

 

[BurntontheoutsideTurkey]

As far as I know doors/flaps fitted into glass have to be circular, so glazier required

 

[The Xmas Furry]

If it's double glazed, then any glazing firm can quote. They will quote for a replacement sealed unit with the hole put in it. You will have to advise them of exactly which pet door you are buying/bought and at what height it needs to be from the bottom of the unit and whether centred ( best) or off centre.

Generally, you should not fit a pet door into single glazed door,

 

[Sandstone1]

Thanks, I will need a fairly large pet door so trying to find the best way of doing it.

 

[BurntontheoutsideTurkey]

A friend had hers in a wall. More work required but may be feasible?

 

[The Xmas Furry]

A friend had hers in a wall. More work required but may be feasible?

Certainly much less expensive than a replacement DGU, as long as there isn't much making good afterwards.

 

[Sandstone1]

A friend had hers in a wall. More work required but may be feasible?

Not really for where I need it but thanks anyway.

 

[Sandstone1]

Other option is to put in upvc door but due to the size I need not sure it will be feasible.

 

[CinnamonChristmasCookie]

My cat flap is on the glass, bottom half of a fixed double glazed window, don’t think it’s circular. Will check when Mitch gets down.

 

[HopOnTrot]

Have you got anything in place to stop a human entering the house via one? They were used in a burglary in our old village.

 

[Skib]

Generally, you should not fit a pet door into single glazed door,

Why not? It surely depends on the door? We have wood framed, hinged double doors from the kitchen into the garden. Each door has a single column of 4 single panes about a foot across and 15 inches high.
When we kept cats, I removed the lower left pane of glass, and cut a replacement pane out of plywood. I then set a rectangular plastic cat flap into the plywood.
Our cat came and went through the flap with no problem. The drawback was stray cats came in too and we eventually adopted one of them, a large tabby who had been ferral on the street.
We gave up keeping cats after our children left home and after the old cats died. So I removed the cat flap and re glazed that part of the kitchen door.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Why not? It surely depends on the door? We have wood framed, hinged double doors from the kitchen into the garden. Each door has a single column of 4 single panes about a foot across and 15 inches high.
When we kept cats, I removed the lower left pane of glass, and cut a replacement pane out of plywood. I then set a rectangular plastic cat flap into the plywood.
Our cat came and went through the flap with no problem. The drawback was stray cats came in too and we eventually adopted one of them, a large tabby who had been ferral on the street.
We gave up keeping cats after our children left home and after the old cats died. So I removed the cat flap and re glazed that part of the kitchen door.

You answered your own question, you removed glass and put in wood
Door glass has to be toughened and/or laminated. You cannot cut into toughened glass, the likes of older laminated glass can be cut, but not easily, and tbh it will weaken the pane.
Cat flaps are usually for DGU's, I haven't seen one that wasn't, for yrs.

 

[Skib]

Door glass has to be toughened and/or laminated.

Has to be, now perhaps? We have lived in this house since 1965, and were very hard up when we moved in so I did any jobs needed. I dont remember buying toughened glass though may be I did.

 

[CinnamonChristmasCookie]

So the cat flap is in a square frame, circular/u shaped plastic flap, lockable. We had a bog standard square dog flap in the wooden back door, plastic flap, I advise rubber, our original two used to fly out and broke multiple flaps! Tricky to secure, tho.