I tried the UHaul "furniture wrap" this week instead of my usual towels. I bought this blanket U-Haul: Moving supplies: Furniture Pad for $8 and cut 2 layers for the 2X4 side of my cage.
It is very thin, like my fleece:
and made of recycle demin.
I pinned it to the back of my fleece to make a temporary liner (both blanket layers) like so:
I lined my cage with it and waited for it to start smelling... 3 days average for us with towels (2 layers) but 7 days! with this UHaul blanket. AND to really test it we also happened to have lived through 5 days of record heat (100 degrees).
For full disclosure purposes, we have a handtowel under our pigloos that we change daily, as well as a hay bin with newspaper that is cleaned twice daily. But we also had this with the towels, so it was a controlled experiment
I washed the blanket today, it washed well and dried quikly, it did have that hot piggie smell fresh out of the dryer, like fleece does, but I aired it out over our balcony and it was completely fresh after. It didn't come out misshapen either.
I LOVE this stuff, I am buying another one tomorrow so I can sew 2 liners and be done. Liners are so convenient...
I'd say used mattress pad if you can get it on the cheap, or I would highly recommend this blanket. No more towels for us!
It is very thin, like my fleece:
and made of recycle demin.
I pinned it to the back of my fleece to make a temporary liner (both blanket layers) like so:
I lined my cage with it and waited for it to start smelling... 3 days average for us with towels (2 layers) but 7 days! with this UHaul blanket. AND to really test it we also happened to have lived through 5 days of record heat (100 degrees).
For full disclosure purposes, we have a handtowel under our pigloos that we change daily, as well as a hay bin with newspaper that is cleaned twice daily. But we also had this with the towels, so it was a controlled experiment
I washed the blanket today, it washed well and dried quikly, it did have that hot piggie smell fresh out of the dryer, like fleece does, but I aired it out over our balcony and it was completely fresh after. It didn't come out misshapen either.
I LOVE this stuff, I am buying another one tomorrow so I can sew 2 liners and be done. Liners are so convenient...
I'd say used mattress pad if you can get it on the cheap, or I would highly recommend this blanket. No more towels for us!