Paint inside of hutch?

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I was thinking about painting the inside of my hutch with a gloss type paint, to make it super easy to clean, and protect it from being gradually degraded by guinea pig pee. I reckon it would work in the same way as lino.

Safe and practical?

Silly idea because :
- no safe paint available, given that my guinea pigs like to check out how edible their hutch is?
- something else rather obvious that I have completely overlooked?

Help please - tis a rather random idea at the minute. :)p
 
I'd go for lino, well, I do, lol, largely for the reason you said - my piggies like nomming their hutches! (despite me telling them how much they cost and waving the receipts at them...they chewed those too...)

Paint fumes can also remain for longer than you think, especially in a smaller area like a hutch. I would say you would need to leave it at the very minimum a week and a half to put them back in it.

Paint isn't entirely waterproof like lino either, it can peel etc, so you would need to use special bathroom or kitchen paint and even that isn't ideal. We had a leak on our radiator and it went on the skirting board and the paint did peel after a while.
 
could you lino up the walls a little bit do you think? we have a shed that we are going to use when our first piggies arrive and at present there is a gap at the bottom between floor and wall. Hubby is gonna foam fill it then maybe skirting board and then i am thinking lino up the wall a bit?
 
I personally wouldn't use paint if there's the remotest chance they might nibble on it. I don't know how dangerous paint is these days, but it's certainly not something I would want to risk. That's just my opinion.
 
My dad made our piggies a new hutch and painted the bottom. They cannot get to it but after a couple of cleanings out the ammonia in their wee has caused the paint to bubble! Think we will have to invest in some lino too! x
 
I was thinking of tiling the floor of my hutch. It will have newspaper over the tiles, then shavings, then hay. It'll waterproof the floor of the hutch and should make it easier to keep clean.
 
Bubbles and nibbling - good enuf reasons not to paint.

Lino it is.

Thanks, many heads are better then one :))
 
we have lino tiles in our hutches and also i painted all my hutches inside with curpinol animal safe paint and that was over 2 years ago and i have never had a problem with illnesses and this year i painted them again inside and still no illnesses, i just kept the piggies out of the hutch for 24 hours x
 
wales1000 said:
we have lino tiles in our hutches and also i painted all my hutches inside with curpinol animal safe paint and that was over 2 years ago and i have never had a problem with illnesses and this year i painted them again inside and still no illnesses, i just kept the piggies out of the hutch for 24 hours x
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Would that be Cuprinol Shades?
 
Tx

redd1800 said:
Thanks, many heads are better then one
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Tx to you also, you saved me from having to ask this question. One thing we have on this side of the pond are large, lightweight sheet metal pans to put under automobiles to catch oil drops. They are galvanised so are somewhat liquid-proof. They measure approximately 26 inches by 48 inches (66 cm x 122 cm). They have a cupped edge to prevent runoff. I will probably use those if I keep my rescue and build him a hutch. I have one that I use under the area where I feed my kitties. I bought mine at a local Wal-Mart, and I am sure I have seen them at auto parts shops. I think that's a good idea for a small hutch; of course, having as little knowledge currently as I do, I could be wrong.
 
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