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Best cat bedding ever!
I've mentioned Astroturf covered with paper towels before, but
recently figured out a very easy way to apply the tape to the backside of the Astroturf for holding the paper towels. Below is my writeup on Flickr. Be happy to answer any questions. Their bedding material is Astroturf covered with paper towels. Besides being cool and comfortable, it's a cure-all for keeping your cats clean. It keeps them spotless. All you have to do is develop a method for temporarily attaching the paper towels to the plastic grass mat, then regularly change the paper towels and occasionally shake out the Astroturf. Taping the paper towels to the Astroturf is easy! On the backside of the Astroturf, just apply a thick row/bead of hot melt glue along the edge where you want the tape to go. Packaging tape sticks directly to the glue (after its cool/hard of course). Ten times easier than trying to apply plastic pads or whatever to hold the tape. Tape the paper towels only on one side of the Astroturf. If the paper towels start bunching up to that side, you need to apply glue to the other side and tape the paper towels to that other side. The Astroturf has a grain that pushes the paper towels in one or the other direction. That's why you only need to fix the paper towels to one side. If you try taping them down to both sides, they are more likely to be damaged/ripped faster. Let the grain of the Astroturf do the work for you. All you have left to do is figure out the scheme for applying tape to the paper towels. Also... Some places might need reinforcement. Sometimes an extra layer of paper towels is useful in certain places. Recommend using Bounty DuruTowels. Stronger than ordinary paper towels and reasonably cheap. |
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Best cat bedding ever!
"John Doe" wrote in message ... I've mentioned Astroturf covered with paper towels before, but recently figured out a very easy way to apply the tape to the backside of the Astroturf for holding the paper towels. Below is my writeup on Flickr. Be happy to answer any questions. Their bedding material is Astroturf covered with paper towels. Besides being cool and comfortable, it's a cure-all for keeping your cats clean. It keeps them spotless. All you have to do is develop a method for temporarily attaching the paper towels to the plastic grass mat, then regularly change the paper towels and occasionally shake out the Astroturf. Taping the paper towels to the Astroturf is easy! On the backside of the Astroturf, just apply a thick row/bead of hot melt glue along the edge where you want the tape to go. Packaging tape sticks directly to the glue (after its cool/hard of course). Ten times easier than trying to apply plastic pads or whatever to hold the tape. Tape the paper towels only on one side of the Astroturf. If the paper towels start bunching up to that side, you need to apply glue to the other side and tape the paper towels to that other side. The Astroturf has a grain that pushes the paper towels in one or the other direction. That's why you only need to fix the paper towels to one side. If you try taping them down to both sides, they are more likely to be damaged/ripped faster. Let the grain of the Astroturf do the work for you. All you have left to do is figure out the scheme for applying tape to the paper towels. Also... Some places might need reinforcement. Sometimes an extra layer of paper towels is useful in certain places. Recommend using Bounty DuruTowels. Stronger than ordinary paper towels and reasonably cheap. Best not say what I want to. So I won't. |
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Best cat bedding ever!
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-- "Christina Websell" spamfree tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Christina Websell" spamfree tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Subject: Best cat bedding ever! Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:38:14 +0100 Lines: 41 Message-ID: ca2rhqF2c3fU1 mid.individual.net References: lh4llb$t4m$1 dont-email.me X-Trace: individual.net C0y346iNijHb/iN3Ptg7KwEm+Uv9fEiPFezv6iZxwPZLD1R1uj Cancel-Lock: sha1:ORmosNFKr2vew5uQBByNXgEgmrs= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: news.eternal-september.org rec.pets.cats.health+behav:11833 "John Doe" jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote in message news:lh4llb$t4m$1 dont-email.me... I've mentioned Astroturf covered with paper towels before, but recently figured out a very easy way to apply the tape to the backside of the Astroturf for holding the paper towels. Below is my writeup on Flickr. Be happy to answer any questions. Their bedding material is Astroturf covered with paper towels. Besides being cool and comfortable, it's a cure-all for keeping your cats clean. It keeps them spotless. All you have to do is develop a method for temporarily attaching the paper towels to the plastic grass mat, then regularly change the paper towels and occasionally shake out the Astroturf. Taping the paper towels to the Astroturf is easy! On the backside of the Astroturf, just apply a thick row/bead of hot melt glue along the edge where you want the tape to go. Packaging tape sticks directly to the glue (after its cool/hard of course). Ten times easier than trying to apply plastic pads or whatever to hold the tape. Tape the paper towels only on one side of the Astroturf. If the paper towels start bunching up to that side, you need to apply glue to the other side and tape the paper towels to that other side. The Astroturf has a grain that pushes the paper towels in one or the other direction. That's why you only need to fix the paper towels to one side. If you try taping them down to both sides, they are more likely to be damaged/ripped faster. Let the grain of the Astroturf do the work for you. All you have left to do is figure out the scheme for applying tape to the paper towels. Also... Some places might need reinforcement. Sometimes an extra layer of paper towels is useful in certain places. Recommend using Bounty DuruTowels. Stronger than ordinary paper towels and reasonably cheap. Best not say what I want to. So I won't. |
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