Pet Door Installation in Lakewood, CO

The cutout is where pet doors go right or wrong. Exterior doors are sandwiches — wood, foam cores, metal or fiberglass skins — and each cuts differently; a rushed jigsaw pass leaves torn skins and a flap that leaks from day one. The install that lasts gets measured off the pet's shoulder height, cut cleanly for the door's actual construction, framed with the manufacturer's tunnel, and sealed at every edge. On metal and fiberglass doors especially, technique is the whole game — those skins don't forgive.

Climate is the buying criterion nobody weights enough here. A single cheap vinyl flap is a pet-shaped hole in your building envelope come January — Denver winters want double-flap or insulated models, which create an air-lock effect and seal with magnets that actually pull closed against wind. The energy difference is real, and so is the draft on your ankles in the kitchen. I'll steer you to the models that hold up in this climate and away from the ones that stiffen and crack their first cold snap.

Interior installs are the underrated version: a cat door through the basement door ends the litter-box-versus-dog standoff; a wall pass-through to the laundry room gives the cat a dog-free dining room. Wall installs go through drywall into a framed, tunneled opening — tidier than it sounds. And every install includes the security conversation: where the door lands relative to deadbolts, which locking cover fits, and — for the households that want it — microchip-activated doors that open only for your animal, which solves both the raccoon question and the neighbor's cat.