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I noticed that another discussion has moved to being a chat about closing doors in the house. I thouht that needed a topic of it's own. The only door in my house that stands closed is my study and that has rising hinges that close it automatically. I often wedge it open.It prevents cats from becoming trapped. My kitchen doesn't even have a door to the hall. We took it off decades ago. Most visitors don't even notice. It kept getting in the way! I have UPVC doors to the back garden and back entry and a heavy curtain on the wooden front door, so very few draughts. Patio door isn't draughty either.
I'd like one of those door curtain hot air blowers over the back door, so Icould leave it open more often for the animals.BUT they cost a LOT! I get lots of exercise letting dogs an and out.
Hana
 
Im having a door issue because of my cats, well 1 cat! :D I live in a 1 bed flat which is all at the top of my private stairs. As 1 of my cats seems determined to get on my kitchen worktop at night, I have now been shuting them in the stair area. After being woken at 3am from the sound of a kitchen shelf coming down with all its contents, then the following week at 5am a glass bowl being pulled off the breadmaker and smashed all over the kitchen. Little sod, but hey I love him, (wasnt sure that morning though!!! :lol: )

So now I have found that with the 3 doors at the top of the stairs shut my heating goes into overdrive as the only radiator in that area is at the bottom of the stairs! So now I wake up in the night sweating!! :lol:

Anyway, Im hoping my solution has just been delivered! I bought this canister thing with a motion sensor. I'll set it up on the worktop tonight and if he gets up there it should hopefully spray air very loudly at him and scare him enough that he stops going up there! Also I feel mean shutting them on the stairs even if there are beds there.

I just hope its not so loud as to wake me up!!!! :roll:
 
I would be very careful discussing doors in view of current government policies. Tax on how many doors are in your home may save this country from bankruptcy, not to mention Tax on Cats.

Our cats and the dog are very good when it comes to using doors, its the "adult children" that seem to have no idea what function a door has except in there bedroom. Also when they do think to shut a door, the whole house shakes.

What about the car door, dear Henry Ford spent thousands to ensure a car door would close with a finger light touch or pull to close easily. So when someone slams a car door, think what damage is going to happen to electric windows etc; and Henry jumping in his grave.

The rising hinges the Hanadr has is a good idea.

Roy, :)
 
hanadr said:
I get lots of exercise letting dogs an and out.
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My Jack Russell terrier uses the cat flap to let herself in and out to use the garden whenever she feels the need, one of the joys of owning a small dog :D


ps. My cat occasionally lies in wait behind the cat flap to attack her when she comes back in through it :lol:
 
Sid Bonkers said:
hanadr said:
I get lots of exercise letting dogs an and out.
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My Jack Russell terrier uses the cat flap to let herself in and out to use the garden whenever she feels the need, one of the joys of owning a small dog :D


ps. My cat occasionally lies in wait behind the cat flap to attack her when she comes back in through it :lol:
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One of my cats was known as "The-Cat-who-hunts-Wolfhounds". He used to come on walks with us, run ahead to hide, then LEAP out of the long grass on the poor unsuspecting hound! Good job they're a good-natured breed :lol:

Sorry for the side-track, Hanadr - couldn't resist that little "tail". :wink:

Viv 8)

PS. His real name was Khan. It means supreme ruler - he knew his place :roll: .
 
My doors all shut.... It's getting them to open that's an issue! Many a time I've locked myself in the bedroom with my poor pup on the other side of the door howling and scratching because he knows I'm there and can't get in. My boyfriend is too busy laughing in these situations to be of any use.

Solution would be to leave them open, but the said sneaky pup finds his way on to my bed and sofa - mucky paws and all!
 
We keep all the doors shut upstairs unless the cat has made himself comfy on someone's bed. He's figured out how to open them though the little ******!
 
We have knobs rather than handles, means pup can't pull down on them and open them!
 
There was a cat in our area that used to come in if the back door was left open. He would walk straight through the kitchen, straight across the hall amd up the stairs and lie into the same bed everytime. Very reluctant to be moved! Don"t know what happened to him he just stopped visiting. I'm not a pet owner but have door issues because of a humans who do not seem to know how to close doors.

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Just on our kitchen door I have had a 'parliment hinge' fitted onto the door casing.
So the girls [our 2 yorkies] can push the door right back without splittting the door .
As was the case with our last 2 doors - with them doing this.

Our joiner came up with this parliment hinges solution to the problem .
They allow a door to be folded completely back on itself ...
Without over straining a door at all .

Thundercat my hubby must have been born in a barn he is ALWAYS
leaving doors open .
It drives me 'mad' I can tell you .

Anna.
 
Doors are specially designed to be left open when you want them closed and closed when you want them open. Animals, Children and Husbands are designed to make sure this always happens :roll:
CAROL
 
carty said:
Doors are specially designed to be left open when you want them closed and closed when you want them open. Animals, Children and Husbands are designed to make sure this always happens :roll:
CAROL
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So 'ruddy TRUE' - carol
He [hubby] just 'done' this before ... :x
It really winds me 'up' too .
 
I have 2 cats and 2 small dogs [Italian Greyhounds] I don't have a cat flap.
The rising hinges shut the study door, but unfortunately number 2 IG, Molly, can open the door by pushing hard on the hall side. She can't then get out, because it shuts behind her. I will usually notice I haven't seen Molly for a while, or hear her whinging and yet again I get up to rescue an animal.
The rising hinges on the bathroom door regularly trap our Orange cat, who goes in to look for dripping taps. We have NO dripping taps! so we have Orange cat trapped in bathroom and more rescues.
Animals rule this household.
Hana
 
'parliament hinge' Does that mean Anna29 is a MP.
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It is the first time I have herd of these type of hinges,also can't get my head round how they work.

We use a childs safety gate to stop the cats and dog from getting up stairs.(The dog can open the gate and the cats just jump over).

Roy.
 
I fitted a cat flap (home made) for my cat when he was 14. My mother and I 'trained' him to use it by me standing outside the kitchen door and my mother inside. We then passed the cat, Sundi because he was found on a sunday, though the flap both ways to show him how it worked. He decided that it was easier to tap the flap to make it swing, he could then hook his paw under the flap, poke his head through and walk out. The flap would come down and trap his tail. It wasn't a heavy flap I hasten to add! Poor Sundi would then stand there waiting for someone to rescue him. He was used to being rescued by us because his claws stuck out when he was hit by a bus, and he would often get stuck whilst trying to walk across the carpet. He was also hit by a car which made his teeth stick out like a vampire and was hit in the eye with a brick which made him blind in that eye which also turned bright blue. Strewth I miss him.
Lee
 
izzzi said:
'parliament hinge' Does that mean Anna29 is a MP.
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It is the first time I have herd of these type of hinges,also can't get my head round how they work.

We use a childs safety gate to stop the cats and dog from getting up stairs.(The dog can open the gate and the cats just jump over).

Roy.
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Imagine you are holding a hinge 'open it and fold it right back 360 degrees
backwards on itself - they will go forwards in the same way too .
This is a parliment hinge - my joiner found these for me . [I never knew about them ]
I was sick of split wood around old hinges through overstrain on the previous hinges!
Now the door can be flung or pushed as far round as want to or flung completely backwards without 'any damage' :thumbup:

Your dog and cats sound a great 'team' Roy , they got it all sussed out between themselves :lol:

Anna.
 
Thanks Anna29,
The penny has now droped with the hinges.

The sun is out, so now I am just going to take our Grace out for a little run as she has been in the garage over winter. ( I do not allow grace to get dirty as you you can imagine). God only knows what she be like if I neglected her.

Roy, :)
 
Anna,

"I do not believe it"

Just noticed our french doors to the back garden have "parliament hinges", but the two side windows have ledges thus stopping those hinges to work as they should.

Life is great, "wait till I explain this to my wife, Josephine will go ballistic" She is great when she mad.

Roy :)
 
izzzi said:
Anna,

"I do not believe it"

Just noticed our french doors to the back garden have "parliament hinges", but the two side windows have ledges thus stopping those hinges to work as they should.

Life is great, "wait till I explain this to my wife, Josephine will go ballistic" She is great when she mad.

Roy :)
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Roy/victor meldrew !
There you go - you discovered this on your own doorstep tee hee :lolno:
Why should your lovely Josephine go ballistic ?
You like her :x too ... :shock:
You a pisces or saggitarian bloke [they love mad ladies ]
My hubby is a pisces and sometimes can wind me up 'deliberately' which yep makes me even more :evil:

Anna.
 
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