Back to the door, how will you know how high he can get? I have visions of you spending three hours cutting and hanging this door and then finding out he can still get over it!
That’s true Jessi – Keynes called it the paradox of thrift – and I appreciate it on a macro scale but I think the majority of the population is still materialistic enough that my little gesture won’t swing the needle 😉
Since moving most of my possessions to the US, I’ve really become anti-materialistic and am now happy to live with a minimum of possessions. This will probably change when I buy a house over here!
Chicken, i was just concerned about whether or not cutting down a hollow core door would destroy it somehow. If it can survive a circular saw, then I’m all over it! I guess I’ll just buy a hollow core pre-hung door, cut it and hang it and be done.
I guess if you could find a salvage 10 or 15 “light” door that would solve all the problems…a half of a french door set with glass panels. It would keep the cat out and let the light through
“Plus, those gates are not high enough. He could jump right over most of them.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at December 28, 2009 10:35 AM”
Okay – back to the door idea then.
I’m unclear as to your hang up about the hollow door idea? All you’d have to do is glue a piece of wood inside the bottom (DIBS and I had the same idea) and mount the hinges (tape measure, hammer & chisel – done in 10 minutes).
Chicken, even if the $$ doesn’t pull her out of her current situation, you gave her more than that. You gave her some hope and the knowledge that there are still nice people in this world who care about those that are struggling. You are a good egg (no pun intended!).
how about a dutch oven?
Hehe – dutch door.
LOL Chicken…my idea is to make it come up to the level of my bazooms…I’m 5’5. When he jumps up on me to get food, he doesn’t make it that high.
Back to the door, how will you know how high he can get? I have visions of you spending three hours cutting and hanging this door and then finding out he can still get over it!
That’s true Jessi – Keynes called it the paradox of thrift – and I appreciate it on a macro scale but I think the majority of the population is still materialistic enough that my little gesture won’t swing the needle 😉
Since moving most of my possessions to the US, I’ve really become anti-materialistic and am now happy to live with a minimum of possessions. This will probably change when I buy a house over here!
Chicken, i was just concerned about whether or not cutting down a hollow core door would destroy it somehow. If it can survive a circular saw, then I’m all over it! I guess I’ll just buy a hollow core pre-hung door, cut it and hang it and be done.
I guess if you could find a salvage 10 or 15 “light” door that would solve all the problems…a half of a french door set with glass panels. It would keep the cat out and let the light through
“Plus, those gates are not high enough. He could jump right over most of them.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at December 28, 2009 10:35 AM”
Okay – back to the door idea then.
I’m unclear as to your hang up about the hollow door idea? All you’d have to do is glue a piece of wood inside the bottom (DIBS and I had the same idea) and mount the hinges (tape measure, hammer & chisel – done in 10 minutes).
Chicken, even if the $$ doesn’t pull her out of her current situation, you gave her more than that. You gave her some hope and the knowledge that there are still nice people in this world who care about those that are struggling. You are a good egg (no pun intended!).