Ideal Pet Products Aluminum Pet Patio Door, 15" x 20" Flap Size | Adjustable Height 77-5/8" to 80-3/8", White

Very happy with this product. I used to have a similar balcony pet door for my cat, made by Petsafe. However, now I have a puppy that will not fit through, and that one also was not adjustable for my new balcony, so I tried this out. It was more expensive, but the quality was also much better. The flap has a magnetic seal, so that it isn't left open after use. Instead of acrylic or plastic for the window portion, it is glass. The aluminum frame appears durable, and was easy to install. Someone complained about the gap when you close the balcony door on it, however, I don't find this to be a big deal... they provide an insulation strip (which isn't great, but hey, it's free), and the gap is tiny if you adjust it properly (like 1-2mm, not enough for bugs to be a problem). As for the complaint about it making the balcony door unlockable, you will have that problem with any of these patio door pet doors, and it's an easy fix.. just get a balcony door stick lock, or cut a small pc of plywood to fit. Also, I got the large size and the opening is high for my basset hound puppy. I took the other reviewer's advice (the one with corgis), and took out the bottom slat, put it above the door opening pc... all you need is a screwdriver and about 20 min time. My puppy is happily using his gate now, with no problems. UPDATE: Been a few months now, and I'm still really satisfied with this product. I am now using it in conjunction with a Regalo extra wide play yard fence / gate (bent in an arc around the balcony door) and the DoggieLawn/Fresh Patch hydroponic grass products (outside on the balcony, so he can pee and poop on his own terms). Add a Petsafe auto feeder and an iPhone app baby monitor, and he's totally got an independent space while I'm away at work. He has his bedding area and full free access to the outside, where the grass products are, and he can pee and poop to his heart's delight, or just go out and look at trees and birds from the balcony. No accidents lately at all, and he uses the balcony door happily on his own (I still reward him if I see him use the grass boxes for elimination). I would not consider him fully housetrained, as he is just a 12 mo old Basset Hound, but he is well on his way.... pretty good for a breed that is very hard to housetrain. These products (and Nature's Miracle) were lifesavers, because he used to have accidents all the time and escape his homemade enclosure. Now, I go to work worry-free and can watch him on my iPhone from anywhere (the app is called the Cloud Baby Monitor). No more 2 and 3AM trips every 2 hrs at night, down 2 flights of stairs in my condo complex; when I'm away or asleep, my puppy can do his business on his own schedule. Eventually, I am hoping to expand and then get rid of the gated area, once I am satisfied he is trustworthy around the house, and I'm hoping he will just use the balcony door or signal me at the front door with the dog potty bells. Attaching photos of the whole setup (the last is a screenshot of what I see on the baby monitor iPhone app). NEW UPDATE: it is now 15 months since I have bought this… My dog is now a full-grown basset hound. He is still not house-trustworthy and must stay in the enclosure when I leave the house. The enclosure is pretty much like a deluxe dog kennel that allows him access to the balcony potty spot. I still love this dog door – best money I ever spent. In fact, I am probably going to buy a second one to install at my boyfriends townhouse for him, since we go there on the weekends. The flap has gotten a tiny bit discolored over time but still has not gotten permanently bent, and the magnetic closure still works well.

Excellent quality item, except for one issue as noted below. The Ideal door has a simple flap that is either open or shut, which is fine if you only have one cat and you are onsite to insert or remove the panel that prevents entry. However, we have two cats each with different needs. We have an electronic cat door that we can program so that both cats can come in at any time, neither cat can go out when it's dark, and only one cat can go out in the daytime (other cat is inside only). We removed the pet door from the bottom section of the Ideal patio panel. The 6 screws came out easily without damaging the plastic panel. (We removed and installed the panel several times in the course of figuring out how we were going to modify the Ideal door. Then we had a local plastics company create two lexan panels with the cutout and screw holes needed for our electronic cat door. We used clear silicone to bond the clear plastic panels to the outside and inside of the patio panel. Then we inserted the electronic cat door and screwed it in place. The only complaint I have is that the patio panel is slightly bowed along the edge that meets up with the sliding door, making it very difficult to configure the weatherstripping to make a good seal. I didn't take a star off for that, because it was my fault for not checking the fit before altering the door. (The old Ideal Pet Door, which was too narrow for the electronic cat door, does have a straight edge.) So my recommendation to buyers is to carefully check that the edge is straight before doing any customization. Obviously I can't return it now that I've glued the lexan panels to the door. The workaround for the poor fit is to buy some very thick but pliable weatherstripping and to install the provided lock or a separate drop bar, applying a bit of pressure to close the gap. We are renting, so we got permission to install the drop bar (which requires drilling into the sliding door frame).

This type of door is very expensive. However, it is a very necessary and useful item that allows your dog or cat to enter or leave the house as they need to. This reduces the possibility of accidents and eliminates the need for a person to let them in/ out if need. The size of the door will fit well in almost any sliding door is relatively easy to install. This door will require that you buy more insulation. The reason is the insulating ability of the included insulation strip is totally inadequate to work well and is impossible to seal, at least it was in my case. You can easily get more insulation on amazon or at a local hardware store if necessary for about $5.00. I have had this door for a short period of time and it really works well it was a slight challenge to teach the dogs to enter and exit on their own. I just used lots of treats. I put their food and water outside after teaching them how to go in/out and that the swinging door wouldn't hurt them. Training will require SMALL BABY steps for them to learn this task. if they are having trouble break the behavior down into the smallest possible steps. For example, just sticking a head inside gets treats and lots of praise. Make a really big deal out of the smallest thing they do correctly. Then build on that success. Eventually, you will have them going in and out on their own. It just takes a little time and persistence. REMEMBER SSSSSSSLLOWW it down you are not in a race. Short training secessions are more effective than long ones. Don’t train longer than 1/2 hr at a time and always end on something they can do successfully, then quit. I didn’t bother with installing the locking feature. My German Shepherd and Pit Bull take backyard security pretty seriously and the lock wouldn’t have fit anyway. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to write many more reviews simply because I simply can’t afford to buy all the items I would like to review. Therefore, this will require me to limit my writing to just a few items as my finances permit. I will still do honest and forthright reviews, just not as many as I would like. I took off a star because of the fore mentioned insulation issue the door block needs to be more robust so it would prevent breakage and the high price. All of these things are very easy to rectify and the cost for these improvements would negligible.

Overall, I think this is great. My dog uses it and it allows her to go in and out whenever she pleases. Installation was simple and I, as a young woman, did it by myself. The only downfall is that you cannot lock the door that you're shutting into this extension piece. It would be nice but as an alternative, I have a stick at the other end of the screen door to prevent it from even opening. FYI - I have this piece and then my screen door that closes to it. Then my glass door opens and closes normally. Anyway, it works perfectly fine and the stick helps alleviate any concern of someone trying to rob me. It's pretty sturdy for what it is. Slightly flimsy but overall sturdy. But that's because it's 1 long piece. AND my dog is a 50 english bulldog and the dog flap size is perfect for her. I can't imagine a "real extra large" size dog like a german shepherd, lab or even a retriever fitting through the flap. Maybe they could since they are long hair dogs whose bodies appear to be bigger than they actually because of all that hair. But my dog is a little bowling ball and it fits her comfortably with some extra room to not hit the sides or top/bottom when going in and out. The flap is pretty good quality too. It doesn't dangle and flap open/close with the wind. There's a metal piece that almost acts like a magnet or paper weight to make sure that flap stays down when not used. Lastly, my dog started using this immediately. It took a few rounds of treats to get her in and out but that was it. Simple. She uses it all throughout the day as she pleases. And for reals, lastly, I bought this one instead of the other ones because of lower cost. I think it had fewer reviews but they were decent. Hope this helps.

This Ideal Aluminum Pet Door is perfect. The spring loaded top piece allows this door to be installed with absolutly no tools required. It can also be removed if a storm is coming, again without tools. The tempered glass is clear and strong. Our Miniature Schnauzer loves it. It opens to our pool/lanai as shown in the photo. Highly recommend. Ideal has been around for a long time. We discovered that the doggie doors we installed 15 years ago to our garage is also made by Ideal. Stick to the leaders in the business.

I saw pet doors for sliding glass doors and prices up to $1,000. Some advertised dual pane glass as how much cold air comes through these things can be a concern. I chose this door as I wasn't sure the value was there for anything more expensive. It was easy to install with the exception of it being a really tight fit to get it standing upright inside the sliding door track. The house I bought had a lot of things put in it by someone with no construction trades experience. So the challenge getting the door up could be from the previous owner not having installed the door properly in the first place. But, with a little help from a rubber mallet, I got the door up. It does require a lot of additional weather stripping besides what they give you with the door. And some creativity with it. About getting your petsto use the door, I had read one reviewer had cut the door flap in half, removing the bottom half completely. They were going to buy another door later after their pets adapted to it. You don't need to do that because you can just unscrew the door and substitute a more lightweight piece of vinyl or plastic. I chose to use bubble wrap because that was handy. Everything pertaining to the flap gets installed from the outside, so you just take the cover piece off that goes over the screws whose tips end up on that side after you screw the three screws from the side of the door inside your house. The flap goes on the outside of the door. One of my cats learn how to go in and out on day one with the original flap. The second did not trust it so I had to open the flap to let her in and out. My third cat wanted to give it a try but I could see he didn't like getting used to the weight of the flap on his back as he came in and out. So, I just taped the flap up on the door from the outside to keep it up so no one would feel it and let the bubble wrap hang down. If you cut the bubble wrap to serve as a substitute for the hard flap while your pets are getting used to going in and out, if you cut it very slightly larger than the original flap, you won't experience cold air get in getting in. My two other cats are still in training on day two and I think they will adjust to it pretty quickly now that they're just going through bubble wrap. Eventually I'll lower the original flap more over time and I will gradually work towards removing my homemade bubble wrap flap as they get more comfortable with it.

This item does not work nearly as well as the videos and instructions would have you believe. The top part works great as far as being spring loaded and fitting in the door as far as height. However, the top doesn't fit in the top track at all, there is a significant gap on both sides and wobbles badly. My fix was to squeeze the aluminum tabs together so that they would fit into the small track at the top. You can see this in one of the pictures. The bottom fits very well on the raised track that it sits on. However, when I slid the cat door all the way to the edge of the frame, there was a huge gap to deal with. It's as if the cat door wasn't built straight, there was well over a quarter inch on the bottom and inside the frame edge. I used the cardboard packaging door corners to shim up both of those areas. There are pictures of this as well. After all this extra work, I got it all to fit perfectly so I put the foam weather sealant on. The sealant is .375 thick and kinda hard. The sealant would be much better if it was .5 thick and softer so that when you slid the sliding door against it, it would make a better seal. As it is now, you can see several gaps from top to bottom. I'm going to get a different sealant to fix this. As far as noise, it seems to filter some of it out but because of the gaps in the foam sealant as well as the rubber flap, there is more noise than there would be if we shut the sliding door. It's a non issue though even though this is in our living room. We don't even notice the extra noise. After all this, it looks good. All the work I had to do isn't evident unless you are really close and actually inspecting it. A regular glance would tell you that it fits perfectly. Now I just have to get my cat to understand it, which she's having a hard time doing. She's not the brightest kitty but I love her. ❤️❤️💥💥

its pretty good. easy installation process. the weather stripping that comes with it is not enough, you will probably need to order extra with it like i did. I don't recommend this if you live on a ground floor apartment, but its good for 2nd floor balcony doors and up.

Great product. Works great. User friendly. And my dog LOVES it. !

No encaja tan fácilmente como pensaría uno, si hay que hacer ajustes, ya que cada puerta es distinta y si quedan algunos espacios en donde debería cerrar. En nuestro caso, no pudimos bloquear la puerta con el dispositivo que viene porque el ancho del carril es mayor, entonces no quedo tan bien como nos hubiera gustado.

I was torn with spending more choosing the more expensive insulated one, kinda wishing I did. In order to fit my door I took the piece off that adjusts for different heights then it fit perfectly. Literally takeoff 2 screws. There’s a draft around the door so I may try silicone on both sides and I’m going to purchase a 2nd flap as it suggests to help with draft. It does only come with one weather strip. You most definitely need 2. Th hardware that a sliding patio door uses that’s on the inside of the door frame stops it from having a tight fit so for now I put bath insulation in to stop the draft on that side. It’s way better then a swinging door in a screen with the whole thing open. After insulating where the door meets it putting a stick to push the door against it, siliconed around the frame of where the plastic is and adding insulation along glass from top to bottom and a piece to stop wind from coming through between doors I have successfully stopped the drafts. So far it has gotten as low as -7 and it was still warm in my livingroom. I did leave an updated pic of end result.

Très bien fait, solide, mes chats sont contents , ça vaut certainement le coût

Es muy difícil para embonarlo cuando quieres 'cerrar' la puertita. Cuesta mucho trabajo.