My folks have decided to start cleaning up the walls yesterday while I was not home. Of course, when my mother started idly chatting about how she mixed bleach and dish soap, I was sorta freaked out considering that it's clearly written on the dish soap bottle to NOT MIX WITH BLEACH. (Read labels? Please?! Some people suicide by mixing cleaning chemicals you know, there's a reason why.) After me warning her about how dangerous it is, she then left for the store to buy more bleach. She proudly stated upon her return that she bought this bleach because the other bleach smelled too much and could hurt the birds.

 

...After much arguing that smell DOES NOT EQUAL fumes, I don't think she still gets the part where budgies could be harmed by the fumes of bleach itself if she cleans the room where they are. So my question is, would moving the budgies in the basement make them safe from harm? What do you guys do with your pet birds when you gotta start on the spring cleaning? (Spring cleaning... in fall. Ha.)

Tell your Mum that white vinegar is a great cleaner and safe for birds.

I close the doors where Merlin is and he is fine. If your bird is in the mist of where the cleaning is being done put him in the bedroom for the day with the doors shuts. You can tell people over and over not to do stuff but they will anyway so just protect your birds and let the rest be

 

 

Is there a particular reason why you would want to use bleach to clean walls.....?? I would imagine that to be completely unnecessary. As Kaz has said white vinegar is a great cleaner, although still unnecessary for cleaning walls I would think!

Trust me, these walls need SOMETHING to clean up with

 

White vinegar cleans walls? Really? I had no idea it works! I wonder how good it is. We need to get some painting done though, so I guess I still have to move the birds somewhere when the painting part comes.

 

Do you guys know for how long painting fumes are harmful?

sugar soap is what we use to clean walls, it gets rid of grease and all

Use vinegar. You can buy cleaning vinegar. Keep away from all other products, and you will have to move the birds out of the house for at least a week.

sugar soap is what we use to clean walls, it gets rid of grease and all

 

Sugar soap? I never heard of that... Do you buy that at the grocery store??

 

I'll be sure to try out the vinegar next! Thanks folks.