Napisan to wash GP cage fleeces with - any experience?

[PacificDogwood]

I was the GPs' cage fleeces every 4-5 days or so and hang them up on a ceiling pulley thing in the futility room.
Today I noticed that they are distinctly whiffy - not offensive or 'wrong' smelling, but they just smell of GP even after a wash.

Could I use a bit of Napisan?
Any other tips from fleece users to render them less aromatic?

TIA.

[KaFayOLay]

Futility room

I use Milton to clean the cage with no ill effects. Is Napisan similar?

[RandomMess]

Soak in a napisan solution and then wash it out the normal way just to make sure?

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

I used Ecover ( it's a namby lentil weaver washing liquid and unfortunately for me, it smells of lavender )

Or those wash ball thingies (you know the Egg Pod with the pellets in)

If you make them smell too different, they see it as a challenge, roll up their metophorical sleeves and re-double their efforts to put their smell on.

Like GP1 does when he gets his saggy arse onto the clean paper in his clean cage. Every single time.

GP1 - drops his bottom to the paper and weeeee, huge cloudy puddle.
GP3 - runs through the puddle

[PacificDogwood]

I call it as I see it, KaFay

Yes, I suppose it must be similar to Milton - I have a half-used tub left from when I used to wash puked-upon baby clothes etc.
I was hoping to avoid the soaking stage and short-cut straight to the washing - I had planned for all sorts of things that the GPs would need; extra loads of washing had not really featured… best laid plans!

[PacificDogwood]

70

They are right mingers, aren't they?!

I don't want to make the fleeces smell of anything, just nothing IYSWIM.
Do you think it'd do any harm??

[PacificDogwood]

Oh, and we have some Ecover and some washing machine balls floating about somewhere too

I suppose I could just dry them outside in the garden in future

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

(It's been a long time since I had to use Napisan or Milton )

Do they smell of anything? You need to be careful because their little noses are right in the bedding.
I used to wash their bedding on a 90 wash and hang them out ( but here in Darkest Essex we have more than one day of sun a year )

I save the old towels for the Hogs, I CBA brushing hay off fleece (and if you wash it in an old pillowcase tied with string, it saves the bits getting in your filter)

I use a steamer and vinegar in the Pighouse. Vinegar to clean those lovely white cloudy pee stains, then the steam to sterilise.

For all of 3 minutes until The Manky Ones walk in

[PacificDogwood]

No need to run away, 70, I am with you wrt to Scottish 'seasons' (less chance of snow between June and September, but cannot be ruled out )

Mine have had their first bath in Posh'n'Go not that long ago .
They just smell…. a bit animally?? Not at all bad, but perceivable.
Is that one of the downsides of fleece?
I love the idea in principle and I throw out so little hay because they only have one 'hay corner' but poop and pee everywhere.

I take the cortex cage liner out every now and then and hose it down with the shower head in the bath .