Little Baal and Belphagor are going to be making their first unaccompanied steps into the outside world in a few weeks. So we're going to need a catflap fitting.
Entry and egress will be through the conservatory, which is brick built and plastic-clad on the outside, plasterboard on the inside. The best place for the catflap will be through the glass in the back door - which is a full length, single glazed panel. I've read what the catflap manufacturers say
here and I'm not sure about the whole thing.
I popped into the local glaziers this lunchtime and they would charge us sixty nine quid plus vat to come out and cut a circular hole in the glass of the back door so we can fit a cat flap over it. That's if it's untoughened glass (which, by law it ought not to be if it was fitted recently). If it's toughened glass (and there's no kite mark to warn them off) as soon as they try to cut it, it'll break. Ker-ching, rack up another seventy quid or so to reglaze the door with a kitteh-hole ready piece of toughened glass.
My question to the panel is, given that there's a good likelihood of breaking it anyway, ought I try to cut the hole myself, just in case I get lucky? How is it done? I get the impression that it's probably harder than it looks, with a good chance of buggering it up, but has anyone done it themselves? How did you get on? Any tips?
