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Today I am going to repair the pocket door between the upstairs and basement. Ike started the process as an adolescent when he figured out he could repeatedly head butt the door to move it just enough to stick a paw in there and work it open. Over the last year the hardware failed and the door was being manually slid back and forth. But since it is off track, Renee came along and learned she can hit the door hard enough with her head to make herself a space to escape into the great upstairs where there is glorious little supervision and a lot of things to play with.

Um, yay? I get to learn a new home repair skill thanks to an evil marauding puppy and her older housemate.

I am also going to repair my super odd sized wooden slated bi-fold doors that open into my two basement closets and the laundry/storage area. When Ike was a pup he learned how to remove the slats with his teeth so he could crawl through the hole he made and get into the laundry. The hole got bigger as he grew and needed to remove more slats.

I can't just buy new doors because of the very odd size. Even tried the resale places like the Habitat For Humanity store. Nothing fits, so I decided to take out the remaining slats, fix any frame damage with screws since they won't be visible, cut some MDF inserts and use 1/4 round to make it pretty, then paint and rehang. Just need to get to the home improvement store and buy materials.

So, what have you replaced or redone due to your dogs? What do you need to do, but have been procrastinating?