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Quick question. Anyone here ever used that white plastic sheet for cage bottoms? They sell it a lowes in the shower area. It is for shower walls and ceilings.
 
I used to use it quite a bit but have not in many years. It's cheap but I found myself replacing it often enough that I have since found that I prefer to spend a bit more money and use something longer lasting.

And on that note, if you do use it I highly recommend doing so in a way that allows you to replace it. Back then I used to build my cages without solid floors and I would just use silicone and staples to attach this stuff to the underside of cages, not unlike how you just put a thin back on a store bought bookshelf. It was very easy to take a cage off a stack and remove and replace the floor in under an hour. On one occasion I had a bad water bowl spill and the walls of the cage were slightly swollen. So I took the floor off and then use my circular saw to remove about 1/8" of material from the cage and put on a new floor.

A lot of people are not comfortable with the idea of builing cages without floors but when this stuff is tacked and silicones on it adds a lot of structure, more than the bookshelf example I gave above. And a lot of cabinets are built with nothing more than a thin sheet of material slid in a groove in the back and these cabinets hold up granite and concrete countertops with no problem. And in a cage stack you have the ceiling of the cage below supporting the thin floor of the cage above. In my mind it just makes sense to build a cage that is lighter and cheaper when you can.

Okay, ramble over.

Hey, I spent some time using Google's Language Tools and reading some European Sites this week. Actually A LOT of European sites. At any rate, I think I have found a recipe for making your own modeling paste, if I understood it correctly. Email or PM me if you're interested.
 
chimpkin said:
Quick question. Anyone here ever used that white plastic sheet for cage bottoms? They sell it a lowes in the shower area. It is for shower walls and ceilings.
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There are two general types made for bath and shower surrounds. One is a compressed paper board with a melamine or similar surface, either smooth or embossed to give the appearance of tiles. This type might be useful as top shelving, but only the melamine side is water resistant. The panel will degrade if the back gets wet. These panels are normally adhered to greenboard with construction adhesive.

The other type is thin pvc or plastic sheeting. It is meant to be adhered to a substrate with contact cement. It has very little structural integrity alone. This type would be very useful if making a rack out of MDF or OSB, as the sheet can be cemented to the interiors of the rack, making them water resistant. These can also be cemented to the type described above to render both sides water resistant. Again, this is done with contact cement, per the manufacturer's instructions.
 
I was looking at the pvc plastic sheeting. I was going to make a wooden cage and use it as a floor. I figured I could just use silicone to attach it.
 
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