SPOON: a screen door!

[kellan_the_tabby]

[ It is, indeed, a screen door, visibly built from pallet wood; the bottom half is solid wood, while the top half is screened. It’s been installed in the doorframe in the cargo container. ]

SO glad I got this done for Morgyn & CJ. Between this & the wall I built to go where the big doors open (about which more later), they have DELIGHTFUL amounts of airflow, & a fair amount of light, while also keeping the cats inside.

Sigdis is Just Fine with this. Oh, I’m sure she’d slip outside if she had the chance, & have a lovely time wandering, but she is also perfectly happy to not do so. Sigdis is not a complicated cat, & there are definitely days I envy that.

Marisol is the ANGRIEST. Note that she was ALSO the angriest about having to be on a leash any time the doors were open. She wants to be OUT. SIDE. Which I feel would be a reasonable ask if she did not, upon gaining access to the outside, IMMEDIATELY attempt to see how far she could get before Morgyn LOST THEIR SHIT ABOUT IT.

… & that, my friends, is why there are TWO layers of screening on this screen door.

[ A pretty close view of some screening. One layer is your usual aluminum window screen, though it’s way more wrinkly than usual. The other, further away, is quarter inch hardware cloth. ]

Quarter inch GALVANIZED STEEL hardware cloth. You need STURDY wire cutters to get through this stuff; my jewelry wire cutters won’t go through it, & more importantly, neither will cat claws.

Marisol has, of course, spent a notable amount of time hanging from the screen, with no visible effects whatsoever. Except to her temper.

Of course, in my all-fired hurry to get the thing DONE, it’s not painted. Heck, it’s not even SANDED. That’ll happen over the winter. Probably. I hope.

In the meantime, it’s got spots like this.

[ A close view of a couple of pallet boards. A single screw head is visible. So is a nice splintery gouge along the edge of one of the boards. ]

Don’t grab the door there until I get that sanded out, okay?

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Comments

[danabren]

Cats hanging from screen is not a thing about which one should mess around. *gestures vaguely at the patched screen left from BadCat (outside) when he was taunting Goblin (inside)*

[kellan_the_tabby]

yeah, the catio screens are gonna have hardware cloth on BOTH sides of the window screen, for purposes of NOPE

[danabren]

Catio. Yes.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Catio that will basically double as a porch, because if I build one of those lil two foot by four foot thingers the boys will EAT IT.

[thewayne]

No handle or knobbie on the outside?

[kellan_the_tabby]

That required Extra Effort, on account of the door not being the expected thickness for a screen door, thus the knob took a couple days.

[thewayne]

Ah.  As long as it got knobbed.  I have a screen door that doesn't want to be latched, and the wood is of poor quality and doesn't want stuff screwed into it, such as an eye hook.  If I ever get around to it, my intent is to screw a sewing thread bobbin into the wood inside the house and use a rubber vacuum drive belt to loop around the door handle.  What I really need to do is replace both the front and side doors, except they're both non-standard door sizes and will run about $500 EACH.  They're not standard-sized doors because of the slope of the roof and this is a manufactured house.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Hm, yeah, sounds like it'll work? This door, at least, is made of wood that'll HOLD things.

& somehow none of the doors here are a standard size, even though they're all doors that had been bought from a door place. Alas, but there's always pallet wood.

[azurelunatic]

Some people! (And by "some people", I of course mean the sort with retractable claws. Whether or not they choose to put them away.)

[kellan_the_tabby]

THE HORRIBLEST