Mud!!

hmc

Caroline_a wrote: »

I have been on a mission the last few years to cut down on cleaning/housework, etc. However there has to be a balance so that it's acceptable looking, etc. (otherwise, I could have gone for mud floors...)

So.. dogs live in kitchen and breakfast room during day with the run of the garden. Garden is patio and fake grass (it rains, it gets wet, it dries. No mud yay!). The carpet in the breakfast room finally got fed up and left home 2 weeks ago and I had some vinyl tiles fitted which are fantastic! Not cheap at all - ceramic would have been cheaper - but easy to clean and look great. Kitchen is onyx tiles.

As long as they are relatively clean when they come in from their walks it's really easy, and if they aren't it's still pretty easy - their beds might need a wash but that's all, everything else is sweepable, mopable, etc.

Edit - i just read that back, I do sound a bit smug. But then, I have served my time as slave to long haired dogs and their mud habits for many years. Plus th Spin can shake his head and reach the ceiling with his slobber....

Can I ask about fake grass, I'm in rented I wanted to buy a length from home base and just put It on top of some slightly uneven unsightly concrete and slabs,gravel to give dogs a bit better playing area

Could I do this? Thanks

hmc

I had to change laminate for carpet as older dog was sliding and getting very stiff as he would insist on lying next to his bed lol

zaksmum

hmc wrote: »

I had to change laminate for carpet as older dog was sliding and getting very stiff as he would insist on lying next to his bed lol

That is the one major downfall of laminate for me.

Poor Lucy is getting stiff and she hates the laminate. She struggles much more to get up than she did on carpet.

I got a big rug for in front of the fire and she's claimed that now, so gets up a lot easier from that.

joansgirl

katy721 wrote: »

Luckily my cottage is that dated that I have the pub-style carpet Yorkie Pud mentioned upstairs! Downstairs is tiled, so absolutely freezing to walk on, but easy to mop (if LS will stop attacking the mop long enough to let me do it!).
I have found with him it is easier to let him in the house caked in mud, wait for it to dry and drop off, and then clean the house. Trying to towel him down ends up in a shredded towel, me covered in mud and him looking smug!

How you manage with such a big dog amazes me. Bailie's quite small but trying to towel her down is a nightmare. It's all a massive game to her and it doesn't matter how cross I get she just stands there wiggling her bum and wagging that tail, ready to pounce at the first opportunity.

zaksmum

joansgirl wrote: »

But then you get this.......



How can you resist

Your dog is the image of my Jack!

antw23uk

Try having a horse! Thats MUD!! :rotfl:

I went head first the other day after losing an argument with my 600kg horse and I was COVERED from head to toe in mud :rotfl: I went home in nothing but a high viz jacket and pair of boots .. thankfully I didnt get stopped because that would have taken some explaining, lol! :eek:

lostinrates

antw23uk wrote: »

Try having a horse! Thats MUD!! :rotfl:

I went head first the other day after losing an argument with my 600kg horse and I was COVERED from head to toe in mud :rotfl: I went home in nothing but a high viz jacket and pair of boots .. thankfully I didnt get stopped because that would have taken some explaining, lol! :eek:

I think the 'contest' depends on the yard and the dogs. I certainly find the mud created by the dogs more draining. My yard (also at home) is well laid out and actually as the grou d is too wet for poopicking, and the horses all come on when called, I actually don't have to go out in to the mud to get them at all.....unless there is an emergency. So once a day the dogs and I go out, check fences etc. my clothes from this can be stripped at the door and put in the machine, not so the dogs.

The horses don't come in the house (though last year we had a very , very old girl who lived in the garden before being put down and we through open the French windows and she liked coming to help her self from the fruit bowl in the kitchen:rotfl:...but it wasn't weather like this)

Also, many people with horses at a yard go once, maybe twice day. Dogs? Lots more!

My back garden, almost always pretty decent, has squishy water on it. I can't wait till my back garden is as well set up for dogs/people and mud as my yard is for horses and mud!

heartbreak_star

I'm just loving the photos in the thread

HBS x

Caroline_a

hmc wrote: »

Can I ask about fake grass, I'm in rented I wanted to buy a length from home base and just put It on top of some slightly uneven unsightly concrete and slabs,gravel to give dogs a bit better playing area

Could I do this? Thanks

To be honest I'm not sure - you'd have to ask the manufacturers or the fitters. It isnt a cheap option at all, think more expensive than really good quality carpet, but I do think that it's one of those things that you need to spend as much as you can afford on to get the best result.

hmc

I don't want fitters I just wondered if it's possible to buy off the roll in home base and just put it down in the middle of my concrete/slabs so I have a nice play area for dogs