Cat-proofing Velux windows?

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Toaster Pilot

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14,621 posts

159 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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We have two cats, one 11 months old and one 6 months old, both indoor. They seem to have taken to trying to get out of the Velux windows in the upstairs of the house, resulting in both of them recently having falls off the roof (thankfully seem to be fine - idiots!)

Are there any products out there that would let me leave the windows open but have some kind of screen over them to prevent them being a cat escape route or am I stuck with them closed boiling to death in this heat?

Negative Creep

24,990 posts

228 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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It's not very aesthetically pleasing, but I just use garden mesh held to the frame by Duck Tape

8bit

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156 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Do your Velux windows not have snibs that push into holes around the wood trim to hold them just open a little bit? Ours does, I only realised this recently. Before I realised that I was planning on getting one of those little rubber door stoppers and fixing it to the side of the wood trim such that the window would only come so far open.

Hooli

32,278 posts

201 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Tack a bit of net curtain around the edge to form a 'wall' that air can get through but cats can't? Do it neatly & it might even fold as you shut the windows.

Toaster Pilot

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Monday 28th July 2014
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8bit said:
Do your Velux windows not have snibs that push into holes around the wood trim to hold them just open a little bit? Ours does, I only realised this recently. Before I realised that I was planning on getting one of those little rubber door stoppers and fixing it to the side of the wood trim such that the window would only come so far open.
I don't think they do (they're ~20 years old and pretty buggered) but I'll check

8bit

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156 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Ours has two holes in the left side of the recess trim, the snib is located along the top edge of the swinging pane in our case.

edc

9,237 posts

252 months

Saturday 2nd August 2014
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You can get velcro flyscreens from ebay. I bought some for my old house for precisely this purpose but never actually fitted them.

rosie11

196 posts

139 months

Sunday 3rd August 2014
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