It's been almost a year since I created CATIO.
I found a few things that need to be improved, so I made this video.

Zip ties
For the first year, it's almost no problems.
only a few ties were broken.
However, as many of commented, after 2 or 3 years its not sure it will be ok.
so i decided to change zip ties to wire.
i will change it in the next video.

Raising the bottom
The shape of my balcony is distorted before i made catio, and puddles of water are formed on rainy days.
So, during the rainy season, the wood was always soaked in water and mushrooms grew on it.
Therefore, I put plastic sticks underneath to raise the bottom.
Wood is not keep getting soaked anymore.
I used something in the form of a plastic rod that I found at shop.
i don't know what is this.
It looks like something you would put a cable through to protect it.

Paint
I used BRIWAX as the paint for the wood part, but I recently found out that it is not good for outside!
I repaint twice in the past year, but I thought it would be like this.
This time, I decided to use a natural naturebased paint that is waterresistant and safe.
It is also highly durable and makes the most of the wood grain.
I choose this.
Wood Coat Holzlasur Dark Brown KREIDEZEIT (Germany)
https://item.rakuten.co.jp/ohhashi/c/...

Q & A
Q1: Why don't you cover the whole balcony with netting?
A:because we japanese used to dry blancket(futon) on the balcony.

Q2: put bird feeder on the balcony!cat will be fun!
A: one of the reason I made the CATIO is to keep the birds away.
I hire cats as balcony guards.
We had a lot of sparrows and they were pooing on our laundry, which was a problem.

Q3: Why didn't you put anything on the floor when you painted wood white?
A: I didn't bother because I was planning to replace the floor.
I replaced the floor in the next video after the last CATIO video.


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0:00 OP
0:22 catio 2020
0:43 Entrance
1:26 green
1:57 Glid panel
2:24 Zip tie
3:35 Wood
5:36 Q&A cat net
6:04 Q&A bird feeder
6:33 Q&A painted floor white
6:52 relaxing cat in catio
8:34 next time on DIY Cat Village

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