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christianSpaceman
We knocked our rear wall out recently and replaced it with a glass bifurcating door. The back of the house is supported on a catnic lintel, itself sitting on two 60cm wide brick piers on either side of the house.
Question... we want a cat. It's going to need a catflap. This can't go through the bifurcating door, so the only place it can go is through one of the load supporting brick piers. Is this possible (even if it needs its own little lintel across it)?
Assuming the cat flap would be 20cm wide, is it safe to support the house on 20cm of brick either side of it?
Or am I going to have to make one of those gnarly cat ladders and a first floor flap?