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Screening procedures
Aug. 16th, 2006 08:27 pmSome of you may recall—some of you have seen—the tunnel to freedom Gus-Gus dug through the screen door, which I'd previously blocked with a makeshift cardboard panel. Gus's continued clawing, combined with the depredations of the weather, made short work of that, and soon enough she had a hole big enough to stroll in and out of.
Yesterday, I biked to the hardware store for seven feet of nylon screen and a 3' x 1' scrap of Plexiglas. (Total cost to me: $6.13, though the pain of biking home on a windy day with a Plexiglas spinnaker added some mental anguish to the receipt.) With my trusty coping saw, I cut the Plexiglas to fit across the bottom of the door (generating only one ugly crack), taped it in place with clear packing tape, then removed the old screen and stretched the new one in its place. A bit of edge-trimming with a boxcutter, and the door looks like new—with the added benefit of a nigh-invisible anti-cat shield across the bottom foot of the screen. Gus gets a betrayed and hurt look on her face when she paws at it, but she doesn't seem to have twigged to the fact that it doesn't go all the way up, so we are cautiously optimistic.
Yesterday, I biked to the hardware store for seven feet of nylon screen and a 3' x 1' scrap of Plexiglas. (Total cost to me: $6.13, though the pain of biking home on a windy day with a Plexiglas spinnaker added some mental anguish to the receipt.) With my trusty coping saw, I cut the Plexiglas to fit across the bottom of the door (generating only one ugly crack), taped it in place with clear packing tape, then removed the old screen and stretched the new one in its place. A bit of edge-trimming with a boxcutter, and the door looks like new—with the added benefit of a nigh-invisible anti-cat shield across the bottom foot of the screen. Gus gets a betrayed and hurt look on her face when she paws at it, but she doesn't seem to have twigged to the fact that it doesn't go all the way up, so we are cautiously optimistic.
