Advice Needed : How Do You Lino/vinyl Line Your Hutches?

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I am a first time owner of two outdoor piggies ( I have had many indoor piggie before) , they have the 5ft by 2ft bluebell hideaway hutch from p@h(and a 5ft by 4ft run for daytime use) bedding is newspaper using a mixture of hay and soft straw (as recommended by the rescue, and is very soft, softer than hay i think!) but i want to line the hutch floor properly as dont want to use newspaper for a long time! Vinyl / lino flooring would be best for us as i want to clean as often as possible and for that it needs to be quick and easy! BUT how on earth do you go about doing this? ive seen a few of you have already done it so i need some guidance :) thank you in advanced !
 
Flutterby said:
I purchased stick down lino tyles from the pound shop and cut them to size and just stuck them straight down :)
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How do you find they are? easy to clean ? hardwearing? after having indoor piggies in indoor plastic cages i know what a mess they can make haha
 
I don't have a hutch anymore, my pigs are indoors, but yes they were very easy to clean and once they were stuck down they didn't lift up again. Just make sure they are properly cut and cut down on a clean dry surface. You can get them from B&Q and places like that too.
 
Flutterby said:
I don't have a hutch anymore, my pigs are indoors, but yes they were very easy to clean and once they were stuck down they didn't lift up again. Just make sure they are properly cut and cut down on a clean dry surface. You can get them from B&Q and places like that too.
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I think we will go down that route then! thankyou ! (if i had my own way, and we had enough space my pigs would be indoors too hehe)
 
We used stick on vinyl tiles when constructing our c & c cages. You can get them all different sizes so you can minimise your cutting. On one of our raised c & c cages it has an MDF base which is lined with vinyl tiles and has never leaked in the two years that we have had it.

Lisa & Ali..x
 
I bought lino, but on a roll. I measured out the area, including overlapping for going up the side of the hutch and for the front of the hutch where their is the cleaning draw/access bit. I used double sided carpet tape. Measured out the area on the lino, cut to size, ensuring I did a cut in each corner to allow for the overlap and bingo. It means I don't have any joins....no leakage to speak off and it's super duper easy to sweep and clean.
I'm trying to post a picture of the inside but it won't load...might be too big. I'll see if I can find my original post on the hutch internal shot for you.
 
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Before ....

Managed to get some tiles in poundland , five packs did the trick with a few left over. It went better than expected, but still couldve gone better.
Time will tell how great this idea was ....

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After !

Thankyou for all the advice, really please with the results and will hopefully keep their hutch in top notch condition , and better for them :)
 
kim3 said:
Ive got some lino too yesterday, hoping it will be easier than newspaper.
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these are lino tiles i bought 5 packs of the ones you can get in poundland and that covered the 5 by 2 hutch easy peasy :) i would just say take your time and think about it to get it perfect , i started off ok but started to get bored because it was so hot outside but windy ! but thats just me haha :) and then some bits went wrong so they arent as good as id like, I'm thinking it will be soooo much better than cleaning the wooden floors , the boys have only been in there three days (most of that time in their patio run) and it was already getting gross ! , i made sure i gave it a good scrub and let it dry before laying down the tiles :)
 
Winifred said:
How do your piggies get on with the ramp in this hutch?
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They have only been with me for three days , i think they were kept in an indoor single storey cage before, so they tend to avoid the ramp at the moment. I need to add a bit more to it so it feels a bit safer for them i think, maybe small strips of carpet to add a bit more grip. I'm sure they will get used to it , but i believe pigs may be happier in a larger single storey hutch :)
 
Mine have been ramp piggies from day one but I was lucky enough to have a handy OH so he had instructions not to make it too steep. I also have one of these hutches and thought that the ramp was a bit steep. It almost needs raising from the bottom and adding something else to it on the sides so it's less steep and has hand rails so they don't fall off:-)
 
Winifred said:
Mine have been ramp piggies from day one but I was lucky enough to have a handy OH so he had instructions not to make it too steep. I also have one of these hutches and thought that the ramp was a bit steep. It almost needs raising from the bottom and adding something else to it on the sides so it's less steep and has hand rails so they don't fall off:-)
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Yes exactly ! i was please that there is almost like a little rail on the side so they dont totally slip off it, my one boar is quite large so he manages to get down it ok, but the other is quite small and i think he finds it a bit harder. luckily they spend most of their time out in their run and theyre put in their hutch at night , so i just pop them in their bed compartment and they have their food water hay on that level. But when i go outside in the morning to check on them, the bigger lad is always on the bottom level haha
 
I have aramp in my hutch and the bigger pig used it straight away but the smaller pig took about three weeks to pluck up the courage to go down. I was worried about them falling but they seem to use it like a slide and zoom up it so fast!
 
yes we will definitely be making some improvements to it in the near future ! right now I'm just about worn out after laying all that lino hehe
 
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