What is your every day kennel cleaning routine and kennel setup and why?

[HOGDOGGERSPC]

MAGNUM, DO YOU CUT THE BLEACH OR USE FULL STRENGTH HOW LONG DO YOU LET IT SIT? AND DO YOU TURN DOGS BACK ON RIGHT AFTER RINSE?

[jon]

JUG, do u ever get mounds from the chains? thats what i've always had a problem with, and next thing i know the yard looks like abunch of pitcher mounds

[magnuml]

MAGNUM, DO YOU CUT THE BLEACH OR USE FULL STRENGTH HOW LONG DO YOU LET IT SIT? AND DO YOU TURN DOGS BACK ON RIGHT AFTER RINSE?

I usually pour about a quarter of a 5 gallon bucket with bleach and fill the bucket with water to the top and after it sits a minute i pour that bucket in the pen floor and while i scrub the buckets  out i let it sit and then rinse them out. My dogs will stay in their boxes while i have a hose on but as long as you can rinse their feet shortly after they will be fine. So yes  they are on it right after i rinse them. Another thing i do is pour about 1/4 of a cap full of Bleach in the 5 gallon water buckets. Have done it forever , was told by a oldtimer about it and it made sence since city water has clorine in it. Helps keep them clean and in the summer makes it harder for the mosquito larvea to develop in the water. 

[HOGDOGGERSPC]

THANK  YOU

[Oly]

I use to wash my kennels with bleach, BUT I don’t no more--- I fnd out that bleach and the ammonia in the urine react and eat up metal like it was candy ---so now--- I use a product called OdoBan it’s pretty cheap to at $9 a gallon I get it at homedepot, I think it makes something like 32 gallons, I bought a sprayer (kind one would use for bugs) spray it and leave it, I dont rinse at all, smells pretty nice too it comes in a few different sents, I find that the eucalyputs is teh best one by far.

If you read the label it has a 99% kill rate on parvovirus to add to the benefits list.

http://www.odoban.com/

[RyanTBH]

Yeah, was about to give a heads up for those of you that want to use uncut bleach to clean with... When it mixes with the pee it will make you not see right or smell right for week or so... I burned my sinuses cleaning out a garage after I had a dog in it after a surgery. That was some pain that I've never felt before... See below...

Likely Chemical Reactions from Mixing Bleach and Ammonia
The bleach decomposes to form hydrochloric acid, which reacts with ammonia to form toxic chloramine fumes:
First the hydrochloric acid is formed:

NaOCl → NaOH + HOCl

HOCl → HCl + O

And then the ammonia and chlorine gas react to form chloramine, which is released as a vapor:

NaOCl + 2HCl → Cl2 + NaCl + H2O

2NH3 + Cl2 → 2NH2Cl

If ammonia is present in excess (which it may or may not be, depending on your mixture), toxic and potentially explosive liquid hydrazine may be formed. While impure hydrazine tends not to explode, it's still toxic, plus it can boil and spray hot toxic liquid.

2NH3 + NaOCl → N2H4 + NaCl + H2O


So in other words... REALLY NOT GOOD AT ALL! 

[Oly]

I also use H2O2 (1oz hydrogen peroxide per 3 gallons of water) on my water buckets to keep them bug and green free.

I just spent a boat load of money on my new kennels and want bleach no where near them  .