thought i'd post a few pics of a cleaning out of the duck house as a few people commented a while back after i'd built it, on how they liked the idea i had of the floor dropping down to make the task easier.
well it really is a doddle, coupled with another idea i had to put a 'groundsheet' in it, stapled to two planks of wood, the total time to clean it is less than ten minutes lol
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. it probably takes longer to wash the grounsheet down and dry it than it takes to actually clean the house out ! (suppose it helps that we've only got three ducks i know a lot of you have an awful lot more lol )
it goes like this, open the side door and take the groundsheet out, unbolt the hinges underneath and drop the floor.
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grab a stiff brush, sweep all the bits off the sides, grab the bucket filled with water and jeyes fluid and wash all the floor down, once it has dried, the floor can then go back up in place.
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the groundsheets is then washed and hung out to dry. . . .
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then that goes back in place inside the house . . . . .
![](http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h183/purpled_01/mands%20ducks/cleaningduckhouse5.jpg)
followed by a couple of buckets of shavings. . . . .
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and a large dollop of straw . . . . . .
![](http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h183/purpled_01/mands%20ducks/cleaningduckhouse7.jpg)
![](http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h183/purpled_01/mands%20ducks/cleaningduckhouse8.jpg)
hey presto . . . . jobs a good 'un . . . .
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got some much better vids of the ducks in the pond too off my digi camera which i'll put up once they've uploaded to photobucket, if anyones noticed a marked improvement of my piccies in this thread then thats for the same reason lol, they're just so much better off a digital camera than the phone
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