Next we rolled up the carpet, and stretched it out inside the tube, so that it was snug, next, in order to keep it in place while the glue dries, and to help tack it down even more, we used the staple gun, to put staples around the top and bottom, and all the way down the seam of the carpet. Once we had a good fit, we put glue around the top and around the bottom of the tube. Next, we put it inside to see if it would fit. What we did, is first we measured to see how much carpet we would need to cover the inside, and cut it to size. The inside of the tube is hard to carpet, since it is hard to work inside of the small space in the tube. Now it is time to cover the inside of the tube with carpet. The amount of extra you need to cut, will all depend on the thickness of your carpet. This will give you a place to start the jigsaw, so that you can cut the circles out, remember to cut the holes a little bit bigger than the tube, because you will have the added thickness of the carpet to go inside of the holes also. You can then use the drill, and drill a hole inside of the circle you just traced on both pieces of wood. Once you have the base and top cut, you need to center your cardboard tube on each of them, and trace around it with the black marker. You can make the top part the same as the base if you want, we were using left over wood, and needed to adjust the size a little bit, to make it fit. We also marked off the top part of the cat condo, ours was 18 inches by 13 inches. We then used the radial arm saw to cut the square. We measured it off and marked it with the black marker.

The cardboard tube that we used was 12 inches wide, so we decided to make the base 20 inches square.

Once you have your tools and materials gathered, the first thing you want to do, is cut the plywood for the base and the top of the cat condo.

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