Cleaning stains off a cage?

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I didn't get on well with the c&c grids so ended up getting a second hand cage off someone not too far from me. It needs a bit of a clean up but got a bargain :)
The guy who sold it have it to me for £25 and my dad just brought it home, it also came with a whole bag of meadow hay and and nearly a whole big bag of burgess excel pellets. Oh and more disinfectant so everything I was running out of I now have.

Quick question: Whats the best way to clean off old stains in the base of a plastic cage?

I will probaly put my c&c grids back up for sale soon (their pratically new).
 
Vinegar ;) Leave it to soak ;)

Ive also warmed the vinegar up in the microwave (doesn't smell very nice) and poured it on and left it for around 10-20mins then just wiped the stains away - works a treat and no scrubbing required :p
 
I can't understand how the bottom of a cage can get stained, my cage is still pristine rolleyes I always used newspaper to line the bottom before I put in hay/bedding etc.
 
I can't understand how the bottom of a cage can get stained, my cage is still pristine rolleyes I always used newspaper to line the bottom before I put in hay/bedding etc.

Happens a lot when shavings/megazorb/carefresh is used :p my pigs love to dig and they will lift up their fleece liners to pee/poop underneath (they treat it like its an olympic sport) - however i do a full cage clean out every 3-4 days and disinfect - so marks are minimal and cleaned very easily :) My long haired boys are on vetbed and so they cannot lift this up to leave me little surprises rolleyes
 
While it will get the stains out, vinegar won't kill any germs - I would use a hibiscrub solution first, then vinegar off the stains, then rinse to loose the vinegar smell.

Then it will be good as new :)

You can buy hibi from a tack shop or the chemist
 
Thanks everyone for your help, I already rinsed it out and scrubbed with disinfectant and warm water now got left vinager in there to soak. Sure my mum will love the smell of the bathroom now since thats where its soaking :P
 
Happens a lot when shavings/megazorb/carefresh is used :p my pigs love to dig and they will lift up their fleece liners to pee/poop underneath (they treat it like its an olympic sport) - however i do a full cage clean out every 3-4 days and disinfect - so marks are minimal and cleaned very easily :) My long haired boys are on vetbed and so they cannot lift this up to leave me little surprises rolleyes

I still don't understand why not put newspapers in the bottom then put the carefresh or whatever on top though, much easier to scoop out & clean I would have thought? :)
 
I still don't understand why not put newspapers in the bottom then put the carefresh or whatever on top though, much easier to scoop out & clean I would have thought? :)

Mine tear up the newspaper in places and pee gets through leaving stains. :)
 
I still don't understand why not put newspapers in the bottom then put the carefresh or whatever on top though, much easier to scoop out & clean I would have thought? :)

Mine burrow under the newspaper making an almighty mess once they chew up the paper - its easier to just scoop out bedding than roll up all manner of half eaten papers!
 
I fill the piggies cage up with alllooott of newspaper before putting anything else in. I did use to use cat litter at the bottom, but generally, like a cat when this soaks up pee you are meant to remove it and if you don't your left with nice grey sludge at the bottom which is hard to get off!
Recently bought my piggies two plastic igoos, clean these everyday and supply with fresh bedding but now after a week, i'm left with a lovely stain in one, my piggies must have super pee! xx
 
I fill the piggies cage up with alllooott of newspaper before putting anything else in. I did use to use cat litter at the bottom, but generally, like a cat when this soaks up pee you are meant to remove it and if you don't your left with nice grey sludge at the bottom which is hard to get off!
Recently bought my piggies two plastic igoos, clean these everyday and supply with fresh bedding but now after a week, i'm left with a lovely stain in one, my piggies must have super pee! xx

Please don't use cat litter, I am sure I read on here it's very bad for piggies if they ingest it rolleyes

Mine never used to bury under the newspaper, maybe they were just well behaved lol :))
 
Hi Poppy -
I never do anymore, my piggies have never burried so have never got past to even get the the newspapers but saying that, i do use a weeks worth of old newspapers since in my house the sun newspaper gets bought everyday so as you can think, its a thick base! :) xx
 
I can't understand how the bottom of a cage can get stained, my cage is still pristine rolleyes I always used newspaper to line the bottom before I put in hay/bedding etc.

I use Finacard and put newspaper down on the bottom and up the sides, but I just found that the newspaper ink would imprint itself onto my white correx! It is really hard to get the ink off the correx so now I do not use newspaper on the bottom. Also the pigs just teared up the newspaper with their nails when they were busy dashing away from me and hiding in their house!

I used the Independent, maybe I should try another newspaper?!
 
Sorry for the random posts I keep liking... Bloody phone...

Vinegar is good to get it off...
The bases of my cages are battered... You think piggie pee is hard to get off...! Try getting rabbit pee off... I swear they pee super glue...

I don't bother with news paper underneath the bedding as I find it a bit of a pain in the butt to get everything out... Much prefer just scooping all the hemp out takes a few mins a hutch... The only time I use news paper is by it's self with hay...

Gonna be scrubbing my abused cages when the weather warms up so I can flog them for a bit of money...
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