Excellent value.
The price is just so good, I had to get one for my young Maine Coon rescue cat, Maky. She adores it and is now weaning off clawing at my old chair onto the posts. It was just too tall to actually fit properly in my house, so I inspected the build and found I could shorten it easily myself.
4 inches shorter made it ideal for fixing, and it is probably more sturdy rather than less as a result of the modification. -¶-
I have a heavy duty stapler, so I was able to simply re-attach the screw plate taken from the cut off section into the new top section.
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To do this: -¶-
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Heavy duty stapler -¶-
Junior hacksaw -¶-
Needle nosed pliers (Or some tool able to extract the existing staples.)-¶-
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First pry out the staples that secure the sisal rope from the end you are going to remove. There is also glue, but this easily comes away.
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Then mark and cut the portion you are going to remove. It is just very heavy duty cardboard and cuts easily with a junior hacksaw.
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Pry the remaining staples from the plastic housing of the screw section.
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Ease out the plastic disc, place it back in to the shortened post.
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Secure in place with heavy duty staples. (It may be possible to use nails, but staples worked perfectly for me.)
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Re-glue, and staple the sisal rope, cutting off and discarding the unused rope. (My cat loves the rope tied to the posts as an added toy.)-¶-
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