How do you clean the coroplast cages?

[pbear8]

How do you clean the coroplast cages?

I am in need of a bigger cage (getting a new pigger) and will probably, by the looks of it, try to build my own. My question is...how do you clean it? I have been looking at the pics but can''t seem to see an easy way of cleaning the cage. With the one I have now.. all I do is pick it up and dump the mess into a garbage bag. But I can't see that being done with cages like the ones on your site (which are all beautiful by the way : )


Thanks!!
Steph

 

[CavySpirit]

Re: How do you clean the coroplast cages?

For the full weekly cleaning, I use a dust pan and scoop out the old bedding into a large trash can lined with a plastic bag.

I use a wisk broom for the final brush out.

Then I have a spray bottle filled with half water, half vinegar. Squirt, squirt, squirt, wipe, wipe, wipe, replace bedding.

Pretty easy, really.

 

[Pigfarmer]

Re: How do you clean the coroplast cages?

Yep, that's what I do too and it's very easy. Takes less than ten minutes start to finish. I don't use a wisk broom, but whatever small amount of old bedding that is left is covered by the new bedding and will be disposed of on the next cleaning.

 

[pbear8]

Thanks

Thanks!!

Thought it would be more complicated for some reason : )


Thanks again!
Steph

 

[PapaDean]

Re: Thanks

Boy, am I happy to read this thread! MamaDean has been planning to remove the coroplast floor, take it outside, and hose it off after spraying it with dish detergent/water mix. That's the way she used to do the floor of her large dwarf hamster cage I built her. (The floor was a car driveway drip pan I got at the local autoparts store.) I had visions of Papa getting stuck with that job!

Thanks, gang!