Mattplusness said:
I wish you two would have reasd the previous posts. Would have saved you alot of typing.
I did, actually...
I agreed with previous posts and added my 2 cents, as well as a bit about my own plans for a custom built cage...
Unless I missed something about the OSB being covered in something other than felt, I still think you're going to want to coat it with something else- unless, of course, I'm horribly misinformed and felt is actually a completely non-porous, mite-resistant, water-proof miracle cloth with an easy to clean surface... When I think of felt, I think of 2 pretty different things - craft felt and pool tables. Pool tables often times have teflon felt these days - and while it may be water
resistant, I still don't see it as something really easy to clean and disinfect, which is a concern that Kalandra already mentioned.
It's not just hedgie pee and water bowl spills you need to worry about... While replacing the fleece liners and washing them often is all well and good, you're also going to want to be able to clean and disinfect the cage itself - the walls, floors, etc. -
especially if you do have a mite outbreak. (I would think that mites could and would burrow in felt just as easily, if not moreso, than the wood behind it...)
I'm not trying to say that your cage design isn't as awesome as you say it is or anything, just that I really don't know that fleece is your best choice as a barrier between the liners and uncoated wood (or even coated wood for that matter).
Edit: ok, I do see that you responded to a post about coating the wood with acrylic - which is great... but, if you're going to paint it, are you still planning on the felt too? Personally, I would forgo using felt...
Also, if you note the timestamps, you only posted 2 minutes before my original post... As I was still typing, I really had no way of noticing that prior to my post.