Duck Truck
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We looked all over for a dog gate to fit our habitation door having seen a French van fitted with one
We couldn't find one anywhere. So I made a fold up one out of bed slats. Kept the pooches in but the pooches did bark at other dogs unless we covered the gate with a towel
this worked well and was used a couple of years or so on our old van.
having swapped our van earlier this year I find it didn't fit and the design of the new van made it difficult to adapt.
So I set about thinking (Sue gave a deep groan)
When we changed over from a caravan (bloody tuggers) to a m/home (easy life)
The one thing we really really missed was having a stable door type habitation door.
They let in the fresh air, kept the dogs in and stopped them seeing passing pooches and signalling to all in sundry they wanted to play, it also stopped the drafts at floor level
yet made you welcome to passers by.
So thinking hard I wanted to solve the following things:
keeping the dogs in
stopping them seeing passing dogs/people
Allowing fresh air in
Keeping drafts out
Easy to fit
Easy to store
and gentle on the rest of the fabric of the van
Solution:
I had a few spare foam jigsaw floor tiles about 30" x 30" square
using spray glue I stuck them back to back.
Then I cut them as a tight fit to the area behind the door space.
They simply drop and push into place into the door space.
Being foam they don't scratch anything.
They stop the drafts
Storage in our van they live on the over cab bed
Attached a pic of the gate in place
We couldn't find one anywhere. So I made a fold up one out of bed slats. Kept the pooches in but the pooches did bark at other dogs unless we covered the gate with a towel
this worked well and was used a couple of years or so on our old van.
having swapped our van earlier this year I find it didn't fit and the design of the new van made it difficult to adapt.
So I set about thinking (Sue gave a deep groan)
When we changed over from a caravan (bloody tuggers) to a m/home (easy life)
The one thing we really really missed was having a stable door type habitation door.
They let in the fresh air, kept the dogs in and stopped them seeing passing pooches and signalling to all in sundry they wanted to play, it also stopped the drafts at floor level
yet made you welcome to passers by.
So thinking hard I wanted to solve the following things:
keeping the dogs in
stopping them seeing passing dogs/people
Allowing fresh air in
Keeping drafts out
Easy to fit
Easy to store
and gentle on the rest of the fabric of the van
Solution:
I had a few spare foam jigsaw floor tiles about 30" x 30" square
using spray glue I stuck them back to back.
Then I cut them as a tight fit to the area behind the door space.
They simply drop and push into place into the door space.
Being foam they don't scratch anything.
They stop the drafts
Storage in our van they live on the over cab bed
Attached a pic of the gate in place