Urine Odor Stinks Up Room

[Giggles The Hyena]

So as the title says, the urine odor from my guinea Piggie cage stinks up my room, and I've tried everything to get rid of it. EVERYTHING! When I first built this new large cage, it just had puppy pads in the bottom. Odor was the same. Bow it has a blanket used as a liner on top of the upper pads. Still odor! And the odor comes like 2 days after I spot clean and wash the beds and liner! I tried pouring vinegar on the fleece, washing everything, cleaninf the bedding pans (which weren't the source of the odor), air fresheners, room fresheners, NOTHING! This odor is cursed! I can't remove it! It's worse than a cockroach infestation! You can't kill it off!

 

[sport_billy]

Try a towel underneath the fleece. You are washing the fleece with powder not using any softner yes?

I would expect to change a 2x4 fleece very 3 days to be honest

 

[Seven7]

My Finn and Lara are indoor piggies and I don’t smell anything. This is because they use their hay tray as their bathrooms, which is just very easy to clean. All I do is pick up their hay tray/bathroom and throw away the pee and poop mixed with hay.
I do clean their hay tray/bathroom often, like every 2-3 day but it is very easy to clean their hay trays.

I don’t smell the pee or poop of my indoor piggies.

 

[Seven7]

I want to also add that my piggies don’t pee or poop much on their fleece bedding.
It is as if my piggies are potty trained to go to the bathroom in their hay trays. So when I clean their bathrooms often, I never smell pee.

 

[tatals]

What's the weather like where you live? I'm asking that because I've noticed that when the weather is warmer, the cage tends to smell. Otherwise, I can do the daily sweeping and only change everything (fleece + pads) every 3 or 4 days. I haven't tried any other type of bedding yet, because the fleece is so convenient for me, but maybe if you use some other kind of material it will be better. Maybe wood or hay?

 

[Gia]

You can also try an air purifier. My pigs are in my bedroom and I was getting bothered by the smell so my I ordered one. Most are quite expensive but I bought a plug-in one that I believe was $35. It works pretty well but I have to clean it with compressed air at least once a week or it will make a weird noise.

 

[Reenie]

I find that mine smell a bit in winter, because they're getting more veggies and less grass. Also, if you feed a lot of cabbage, broccoli etc, they tend to be more pungent.

 

[Seven7]

What's the weather like where you live? I'm asking that because I've noticed that when the weather is warmer, the cage tends to smell. Otherwise, I can do the daily sweeping and only change everything (fleece + pads) every 3 or 4 days. I haven't tried any other type of bedding yet, because the fleece is so convenient for me, but maybe if you use some other kind of material it will be better. Maybe wood or hay?

I have central heating and cooling so temperature stays the same indoor. Temperature fluctuations are big between cold and hot weather outdoor, but indoor temperature stay the same in the house. My piggies stay indoor throughout the year.
By cleaning their hay tray/bathroom often, there is little pee going into their fleece bedding, which eliminates odor inside the house.