gpeiw
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- Joined
- Sep 6, 2009
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- Joined
- Sep 6, 2009
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I ordered some perspex online on Friday last week, and today it arrived.
I got three perspex panels that form walls to the hayloft. There is one mirrored perspex panel that is about the size of a grid, which fits the back of the cage, then another mirrored panel that covers the back of the hayloft, and is two grids wide and one grid high, and then at the front a clear perspex panel that goes at the front of the cage to form a three sided box.
The mirrored panels are there to hide the grids on the hayloft as the cage is already two storeys high up to the hayloft and more grids showing was a step too far as the cage will be in the living room and therefore appearance is really important.
I have tied the panels on with cable ties (I put on three grids to form the end wall and back wall of the hayloft last week.)
They look fantastic - even better than I expected. They will keep the hay from falling out of the cage without having to have high coroplast walls in there - it will look like a roof garden when there is hay in there!
The plan now is to have a shallow coroplast tray in the base of the hayloft, and to get a front wall made with a Tom and Jerry style arched mouse hole cut in the centre front at the bottom of the wall about 5 to 6 inches across. A ramp will lead up to it so that they can be seen but it keeps the hay in. Pictures will have to wait a little while as I can't find my camera. Doh!
Then on to the external ramp which I am still pondering at the moment. It will either be a perspex structure with an open side atached to the cage wall to provide ventilation for the ramp, or it will be made of bent grids with opening inspection hatches on the roof of the ramp - there is a picture in the galleries of a cage like that : https://www.guineapigcages.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/11602.
Next job completing the coroplast box for the bottom floor of the cage...
I got three perspex panels that form walls to the hayloft. There is one mirrored perspex panel that is about the size of a grid, which fits the back of the cage, then another mirrored panel that covers the back of the hayloft, and is two grids wide and one grid high, and then at the front a clear perspex panel that goes at the front of the cage to form a three sided box.
The mirrored panels are there to hide the grids on the hayloft as the cage is already two storeys high up to the hayloft and more grids showing was a step too far as the cage will be in the living room and therefore appearance is really important.
I have tied the panels on with cable ties (I put on three grids to form the end wall and back wall of the hayloft last week.)
They look fantastic - even better than I expected. They will keep the hay from falling out of the cage without having to have high coroplast walls in there - it will look like a roof garden when there is hay in there!
The plan now is to have a shallow coroplast tray in the base of the hayloft, and to get a front wall made with a Tom and Jerry style arched mouse hole cut in the centre front at the bottom of the wall about 5 to 6 inches across. A ramp will lead up to it so that they can be seen but it keeps the hay in. Pictures will have to wait a little while as I can't find my camera. Doh!
Then on to the external ramp which I am still pondering at the moment. It will either be a perspex structure with an open side atached to the cage wall to provide ventilation for the ramp, or it will be made of bent grids with opening inspection hatches on the roof of the ramp - there is a picture in the galleries of a cage like that : https://www.guineapigcages.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/11602.
Next job completing the coroplast box for the bottom floor of the cage...
