Fixing hutch to run.....

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I'm planning to fix my guineapig's one storey hutch to a house/run.

The run is about 6ft x 2.5ft aith a ladder and an enclosed nest up the top. This was their home before I took them from my mum.

As their hutch is lifted off the floor on breezeblocks my idea was to cut a hole through the side/end of their house and link it with a tude to the hidey hole at the top of their old house/run.

BUT.....

How do I keep the tube in place?!

Does anyone have any better ideas...? I a little bit clueless!
 
We are linking two hutches this weekend as hoping to create a herd, and we are going to seal the tubes with bathroom sealant - sticky and waterproof so no rain can get through any cracks!
 
Hi

I did this last week. I had some spare tunnel from runaround.co.uk and took the wire panel ot of my hutch (had to unscrew it and prise it apart to slide out the panel) then I inserted my own weldmesh panel that I was going to cut with wire cutters. Once hutch was complete, I snipped a square shape big enough to hold the tunnel in place and fixed it with a couple of cableties (made two holes in tunnel with screwdriver)

I then started the run, I took the door off and cabletied another peice of meldmesh to it and again cut a squart big enough to hold the tunnel. If your run doesn't have a door, you could unscre it and lift out the wire panel and insert your own. This saves you cutting into your run so you can put it all back together again should you want to.

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Thanks that was a great help especially as I have exactly the same hutch as you :-)

I'd be worried it may get knocked out or next doors cat claws at it? I see your's is kind of enclosed aroung the hutch and run xx
 
The tunnel is secured to the mesh so even I can't pull it out! I had some plastic corrugated roofing from B&Q that I cabletied to the panel on the hutch to keep the wind out.

The piggies love it!
 
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