IKEA GORM litter box enclosure hack

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My wife and I were looking for a solution to our cat’s litter box being so stinky and difficult to keep away from our dogs. We decided to make a tunnel from the kitchen to an enclosure in the garage where the litter box could live, and had a Gorm shelving unit in the garage we used for raw materials.

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The enclosure is the single Gorm unit, cut into two sections and affixed to the wall studs side-by-side. The remaining shelf was cut up to create the angle brackets and the sistering plates to hold the sections up and together. Deer wire stapled to the perimeter and a plywood door were added to keep our cat from roaming free in the garage.

Gorm litter box enclosure hack | IKEA Hackers

Gorm litter box enclosure hack | IKEA Hackers

Gorm litter box enclosure hack | IKEA Hackers

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  1. I love this idea, but cutting an opening through the wall between the garage an the main house would never meet any state building code in the United States. There is a danger of deadly car exhaust entering the house.

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  2. This is a super cool idea! Only thing I’d caution is that the cat isn’t easily frightened by something like cars starting or garage doors. We got our cats an auto-scooping box and they were in the room when it started scooping once (it has a delay, but they hung around) and that freaked them out, so they refused to use it after that. 🙁

    I use the Tidy Cats Breeze litter system and I don’t think I’ll ever go back. I have a small-ish apartment I can’t modify, and the clay litter not only got tracked around, but made my entire house smell of cat pee litter dust. It was unbearable. The Breeze system has a diaper-like absorbent pad on the bottom and a screen that separates the litter pellets from that pad, so pee falls through to the pad, gets absorbed, and you have to get REALLY close to the box before you can smell it. Poo lies on top of the pellets and smells for a little while, but doesn’t really permeate in the way that cat pee + clay litter smell does. You just scoop the poo up and bag it, then change out the pad once a week. AND no litter gets tracked around. It’s amazing.

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  3. Great idea, especially for those with small children and dogs. I never thought of making a pass-through for litter box access, and the raised structure is a great idea too. I don’t have a cat right now, but I will certainly keep this idea in mind.

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  4. Wow. Nice work. How many cats do you have? I used to rescue kittens. I had numerous litter boxes around my house. I also have dogs (three miniature Schnauzers & two tiny, under 5 pound Yorkshire Terriors). If the litter stinks, clean it! Cats do not like dirty, smelly litter boxes. Many cats will use other areas of the house as a litter box when this happens, so keep the boxes clean. When I had far more kittens than were getting adopted out, I cleaned the boxes at least three times a day. Now I have two cats. Down to one litter box, but it still gets cleaned at least once a day. When I say cleaned, I am going through the litter with a litter box scoop, removing clumps of litter from urine or poop. Once a week I start over with fresh litter. I use storage tubs with the lids on them, I cut a large circle out of the top of the storage tub lid, for the cats to enter & leave through. This is what keeps the dogs from getting into the litter boxes & eating the litter or litter contents.

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