Looking for recommendations or experiences having a dog door installed in a sliding patio door. I found a website that talks about having the dog door installed into the glass of a patio door panel.
We’re trying to avoid making a hole in the wall for our dog door and the existing patio door is on the small side which will make it difficult for us to get through if we install one of those dog door inserts into the patio door.
Wondered how the dog door would hold up with large dogs?
You can get panels that contain the door, which is then inserted in the opening.
The house we are in had this (but we replaced the sliding glass door with french doors, so the panel went. Can’t remember what we did with it.
BTW, the previous resident had a Rottweiler.
https://www.solopetdoors.com/sliding-glass-pet-door
Picture of it
https://www.solopetdoors.com/pet-door-pictures/category/24-pet-door-sliding-glass-door-install
Video on how all doors work https://www.solopetdoors.com/pet-door-video
I installed this for my cats on a regular door. They learned it within three tries and loved it. Still works after 15 years.
Don’t cut into your glass door. It would shatter if a dog ran thru it with force. Use the panel inserts that have the doggie door in them. Very easy to install. I have them in a few of my rentals, and my brother has one, as have I in a different house.
Had one. The kind where it was a panel and the patio door butted up against it. Got rid of it when the puppy and young dog did races thru it and the yard and back into the house. Pros: dogs could go outside at will. Cons: dogs could go outside at will. And patio door opening was narrower.
We, too, have patio doors that are on the small size, and we are currently using one of those insertable panels that slip into the (opened) door space. We have 3 big Aussies, so the dog door is an XL. Makes for a very tight space for the 2-legged to exit via the patio door.
I haven’t seen where you can install the door into the actual Patio door glass itself, and as someone already mentioned, I’d think that would be hazardous. Our dogs are farm dogs, and if something makes any noise outside, they exit in a very precipitous manner. I think they’d have the glass out within a week, so it certainly wouldn’t work for us.
Perhaps you could replace the entire glass in the stationary patio door panel with something hefty and semitransparent and put the dog door in that. Laminated bullet-proof glass, or the crystal aluminium used in the port windows of the Starship Enterprise (heh heh).
Thanks for all the feedback.
Here is the type of patio door I was thinking of purchasing with a dog door already installed. http://www.homedepot.com/p/JELD-WEN-72-in-x-80-in-White-Left-Hand-Vinyl-Patio-Door-with-Low-E-Argon-Glass-Grids-and-Large-Pet-Door-Sierra-LE-GRD-6068-LPDP-LH/203225357
I agree with what everyone else says. I had the pet door panel where the door butted up to it, which means I couldn’t USE that door. The one you linked to looks great, just make sure the door will fit the dog you are buying it for.
The only other note is that not all flaps are made equally. I had a cheap panel I got from a pet store, and the flap gapped at the sides and would blow open in a strong wind. I bought a much nicer panel from Patio Pacific (I think) which sealed much better and didn’t let in nearly the draft the old one did.
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