Warm boot recommendations please

[Sarah71]

Just a quickie What detergent do you use to clean your Eglu. Do you have to have a special pet cleaner or can use just washing up liquid.

Thanks guys

 

Sarahxxx

[ali-s]

I use washing up liquid, Ecover or Tesco naturally. I also add a couple of drops of Tea Tree oil or Lavendar oil. Yesterday I used both oils

 

I find a non scratch pan scourer is good for cleaning the Eglu. The soft spongy side for muddy, grubby marks and the scourer side for dried on poo

[Sarah71]

That's great Alison, thank-you very much

[Looney]

I use washing up liquid and a hard bristled scrubbing brush ( I have a Vileda one that resembles an old fashioned flat iron with a handle on top....if you see what I mean ).

 

I also have some spray that I got from a pet shop that is for bird cages, I tend to use this for the in-between cleans to give the nesting box a wipe out.

[Rhapsody]

Cage cleaner from the pet shop and a long-handled washing up brush. OPen the egg port and brush poo off bars into litter tray daily *nods*

[Jaime]

I use a Karcher pressure washer.

 

30 seconds flat and the whole thing is water blasted clean.

 

An extra minute or 2 to do the roosting bars - but they come up like new everytime.

[Tara.F]

water and a long handled washing up brush most imes then every few weeks I use dettol and water to keep it nice

[The Dogmother]

I use the pressure washer once in a blue moon to get it reallly clean. Usually, Iuse an old wallpaper s"Ooops, word censored!"er to clens the poo off the bars in to the poo tray, then I empty the whole thing into the compost. Clean it with BioD washing up liquid with tea tree oil and then sprinkle with Stalosan once it's dry.

[Egluntyne]

Quick wash....Ecover, a washing up brush and a watering can of warm water....Kates tip....saves fannying around with the hosepipe, and is economical with water.

 

Mega clean.......pressure washer....Fab. Comes up like new.

[Golden Silkie]

i just use a jet washer

[Puglet]

A jet washer and F10sc vet discinfectant.

[Cinnamon]

I just jet wash once a month,& use good old plain water to clean the tray once a week. It all comes up like new with a jet wash

I then spritz it all with tea tree solution,which smells lovely, & sprinkle some red mite powder around too.

[Mrs Frugal]

For someone who used to clean their Eglu every other day, I've got very bad lately. The droppings tray gets emptied once a week as do the wood shavings in the nest but the rest...............not very often at all anymore . When I do, I have a washing up bowl of hot water with a squirt of Ecover and a few drops of Tea Tree oil and an old washing up brush. The bars soak in the bowl while I clean the Eglu base and nest, the bars get scrubbed clean then as Egluntine's mentioned, the whole lot gets rinsed off nicely with a watering can full of water. Sparkly (despite the time gap between cleaning sessions ) .

[Popcorn]

.......not very often at all anymore

 

That makes two of us Kate

 

Claret - what a fab idea using an old wallpaper s"Ooops, word censored!"er. I'm going to fish one out of D's tool box this afternoon.

 

I was considering cleaning out the Eglu today, but now I have been inspired so much, I am going to do it.

 

I use wash-up, teatree and lavender too.

[Sarah71]

Thanks guys for all your advice, but i've noticed a lot of flies around the Eglu today even after I'd cleaned it. Does tea tree keep them away, don't want neighbours to complain

[Popcorn]

It might be because you've disturbed the small/aroma of the Eglu Sarah. Once the trea tree kicks in I bet the flies buzz off.

 

You could always give it a once over with some citrus/citronella smelling stuff. Flies aren't supposed to like that are they?