Trial thread of foam bedding

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I'm still watching this thread with interest. I went past Dunelm yesterday - one of these days I will go in and buy some!
 
sophruss5 said:
can i just add, on googling aquaflex it seems there is an intimate cone object with the same name! Someone looking at my search history will see me looking for incontinence pads and now this pelvic floor strengthener!
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woopsie:(|)
 
Has anyone found any of this for a reasonable price online? Our nearest Dunelm Mill is down in Glasgow and it seem that the stuff isn't available for home delivery. :(

I really want to try this stuff out. With 4 guinea pigs that malt like mad, our fleeces are getting more and more hairy, even when they come out of the wash. mallethead
 
It can be bought online from the manufacturers website
http://www.fleximatting.co.uk/sympanova-non-slip-matting-2-c.asp

my piggles have chewed theres a bit in several places nearly through it in one place ... but they do that to anything that is new so as I have two peices I'm not too worried but if they chew manically like they do correx (they're in a ferplast 140 because they ate their correx) ill take it off them ... but its soooo easy to sweeeeep!
 
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It took me a while to find it :D

Luckily a store 5 mins walk from my house stocks it <3
 
Just as a variation on a theme, I am having a trial with the Dunelm foam bedding on top of megazorb (rather than premier bed or cardboard type bedding). so far it is going very well - full week before having to change, easy to sweep and low smell factor! The megazorb is not coming back up through the little holes in the foam so all good so far.:) The back of the foam that has been in contact with megazorb needs a good brush before washing but that only takes seconds.
 
Salt n Peppers mum said:
I bought 3 more meters from 'The Range' today :)
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My local Dunelm has run out of stock (cos I bought it all :))) so I might try to get some online. What did you search for on The Range's website? I can't find it.

Also thanks Bekki2308 - there are some great designs on the website you linked to....a bit more expensive but they're look great in the cage!

tracey x
 
Don't know if you'll find it on The Range's website... It's really poor, I think because their stock varies so much store-to-store when they get clearance stuff from other places. 80% of what I know for a fact my local shop sells isn't on the website.
 
I like the look of this!

To wash it I would just fill the bath up a little way with warm water and a little white vinegar and soak, rinse then hang on the line rather than put in the washing machine :)
 
lily 74 said:
I like the look of this!

To wash it I would just fill the bath up a little way with warm water and a little white vinegar and soak, rinse then hang on the line rather than put in the washing machine :)
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You could try it. I, however like my washing machine
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I'm off to Dunelm tomorrow to check this out. My boys seem to wee a lot and I'm looking for a bedding that will keep them dry, looks like this might do the trick :)
 
I handwashed the aquaflex (well I persuaded the OH to) because I've only got one piece at the moment and I wanted to get it back in the cage. A word of caution, don't be tempted to scrub this stuff when wet, even gentle scrubbing (with a hand brush) causes it to start to disintegrate!

Out of curiousity does washing it in the machine make it white again when it gets stained?
 
Woo, we have foamy goodness! We were going to drive the 40 miles to Inverness to go to Dunelm Mill's new store, but my sister-in-law told me that our local-ish decorating place sells it. It was £8.95 per metre, but it saved us a trip! The cage only got changed a few days ago, so will wait for the next change to put it down. We're going to use it on top of puppy pads, so hopefully this is the miracle we need to save us breaking our backs over cleaning the fleece for such a big cage. So excited to try it!
 
Anyone have problems with their piggies eating it? Ours has been in literally just a few hours, and there are already spots where my lot have been tearing chunks out of the ribbed part. I keep having to stop them, it's not like they don't have enough things to chew on in there, I even put a couple of extra paper lunch bags in there. Has anyone elses piggies taken a shine to it like this, and did they stop after a while? I'm just worried that it will end up with holes when we go to wash it at this rate!
 
One of mine had a little nibble but soon stopped after realising it didn't taste very nice..no problems since.
Pile in plenty of fresh hay, that should take their mind off it :)
 
I've been using this for about 4- 6 weeks now and am impressed.
Ive line Arties cage with newspaper then a layer of the foam matting I've a few extra bits I put under his water bottle as that always gets wet there then I just swap them.

Artie seems equally as happy with fleece and with this I like how easy it is to sweep clean and only needs a wash once a week as long as I swap the papers half way in the week.
ponly thing I don't like is the smell of the matting as it dries - if its over the radiator you just get a rubber smell!

I shall keep using it at the mo got a wash and wear set:))
 
Subsonica said:
Anyone have problems with their piggies eating it? Ours has been in literally just a few hours, and there are already spots where my lot have been tearing chunks out of the ribbed part. I keep having to stop them, it's not like they don't have enough things to chew on in there, I even put a couple of extra paper lunch bags in there. Has anyone elses piggies taken a shine to it like this, and did they stop after a while? I'm just worried that it will end up with holes when we go to wash it at this rate!
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Mine have been nibbling it but they never do it when we're around so I don't know who's responsible, whether all 4 have had a taste or if there's one persistent nibbler. If it continues I think I'm going to have to stop using it because I don't want them consuming too much of it.
 
Mine have nibbled in places, but I've noticed a big difference between the stuff I got off Ebay, which seems more durable and the stuff I bought from Dunhelm Mill, which is softer. I think when I replace it, I will go for the Ebay one again. They do seem to attack the softer one more. I've also found that they nibbled it a lot at first, but the novelty is now wearing off.
 
Ortonc, where did you get the one of ebay? do you have a link please:)
 
I think I'm also at the point of maybe going back to fleece if it continues. It's hard to keep track of new "nibbles" though, I just know there is slightly more than before we went to bed last night, though it's maybe calmed down a bit. I've just picked up a big bag of cheap meadow hay so I can pile a load in, because although their hay is always unlimited we try to limit waste because we use the expensive Woodland timothy hay. Hopefully having this meadow hay to jump around in will deter the nibbling!
 
I am going to dunelm later but i think i will try a small piece in the upper level first before i commit to it all over, also going to buy some cotton fabrics to replace a lot of the fleece beds and the sides of my cage liners :)
 
Mine nibbled initially but I have not found that they have nibbled since..... maybe the novelty has worn off..... but maybe.... on hindsight I should've washed it before the first use?!?! I've been using it quite a few weeks now and its cut down a great deal on washing drying times (it dries a lot quicker than inco pads!) and is easier than washing things with hay stuck to them - I still use fleece at one end of the cage - away from the hay
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Managed to find some on eBay, which has arrived today so off to give the cages a new look!
 
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