Cat flap fitting in Openshaw

86% of Openshaw bookings are offered a same or next-day slot. Send photos and the details before midday and there is usually someone with you that afternoon, with the visit length agreed up front.

Almost always, with the right method. Local walls are double-brick ground floors and lath-and-plaster above, which means one anchor downstairs and a joist-hunt upstairs, so the substrate is scanned and tested first and the fixing chosen to suit. A standard Openshaw job takes around 96 minutes.

Access here is typically kerbside standing near the door and a careful turn at the bottom of the stairs for anything longer than a metre. Manchester City Council controls parking in M11, so any permit or visitor bay is arranged before the visit and included in the quoted price — never added afterwards.

Not into the existing sealed unit — cutting it would destroy it. We order a replacement toughened pane with the hole pre-cut to your flap and swap the unit over. That holds across M11 at one fixed price.

Yes. We core through the wall, fit a lined tunnel across the cavity, seal both faces and make good, which suits flats and houses where the door cannot be altered. Nothing changes for Openshaw — Manchester rates are identical.

Yes. We pair the flap with your cat's chip, test it and show you how to add another cat or change the lock modes. Nothing changes for Openshaw — Manchester rates are identical.

Most Openshaw homes have a half-glazed uPVC or timber back door with a solid lower panel, which is the most straightforward surface there is for a flap The survey confirms the construction before anything is cut, and the flap, fixing kit and liner are matched to that door rather than to a one-size box.

Not into the existing unit — cutting a sealed double-glazed pane breaks the seal and the glass. Locally, double-glazed units in the upper half of the door, untouched — the flap goes in the panel below the glass line, well clear of the sealed unit Where glass is the only route, we measure the unit and order a replacement toughened pane with the aperture cut at the factory, then fit the flap into the new pane.

Yes. External walls here are typically standard cavity wall of roughly 275mm, which suits a factory tunnel extension without any special core drilling The opening is core drilled, the tunnel lined and sealed at both faces, and the internal and external frames set level so the flap swings freely and stays weathertight.

Private rear gardens with a gate, so the back door is the natural route and the cat has somewhere safe to land. On that basis, a four-way locking flap or microchip flap set to curfew suits family houses where the cat is in at night. If a flap genuinely is not workable at your property, we will say so on the survey rather than sell you a fitting.