Ideal Pet Products Aluminum Pet Patio Door, Adjustable Height 77-5/8" to 80-3/8", 7" x 11-1/4" Flap Size, White

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).

Changed my dogs life and mine!Why did you pick this product vs others?:didn’t wanna have to continue leaving the dog in the house when I went to work, but I also didn’t trust to let him run around without access to entry your exit even though he’s housebroken. That’s a lot to ask a small eight month old puppy.

I really wish this could be adjusted just an inch shorter. It's barely too tall to fit my sliding door. Otherwise the quality is excellent. I can still use it by wedging it partially in the door frame, but since it doesn't actually fit into the sliding door track, it lets a lot of bugs in around the sides.I really like that the adjustable part is spring based, I can put it up and take it down whenever I want to instead of it being permanently fixed in place like others I've seen.Overall I would say I'm mostly happy with it.

This is an absolute perfect solution for my Maine Coon cat who loves to go outside but only stay out a few minutes at a time. SUPER SIMPLE to install. I’m a woman and installed this by myself in about 5-10 minutes! See my video for more details

Fits our sliding glass door and was easily installed. Our cat is indoor only and this gives her access to screened porch. Very easy to train to use it.

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.