Concrete Yard - Dog Poo

Squall Leonhart

I've 2 dogs who are walked daily and do go toilet when they're out, which reduces some of the mess but they do naturally enough poo in their own garden.

My garden is fully concreted. Every day/two days, I'm out with the poop bags, pick up after them, and a drop of bleach on the pieces that don't quite cleanly scoop up (sorry ). I hose it down a couple of times a week also (very back of garden is a foot wide strip of gravel, it kinda drains to here).

I'm torn between keeping a clean hygienic yard (even after a couple of days if I don't do it, it can smell quite strongly of dog piss!) and worried about the dogs ingesting bleach or burning their paws on it. They don't seem to have ingested any to be fair over the last year I've been doing it.

What would be the best solution here? Continue as I am? Or is there a cleaner and safer way to do it?

I give the whole place a Jeyes Fluid scrub now and then, but its so expensive I can't be doing it weekly! So I guess expense is another factor. 2L of bleach from Dunnes or Lidl is 1eur.

I read somewhere that oygen bleach is good for it, presume this is like Vanish or something? Shake some powder on the 'affected area'? Again, still could be ingested, is expensive, and not sure of efficacy.

tk123

We use a splash of bio liquid in the watering can, brush down and rinse with the hose eg https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=297747848

Is the concrete sealed? If not seal it and that'll help with the smell and stop it seeping down.

Squall Leonhart

Thanks, might try that bio laundry detergent.

The sealer is def something to look in to. Do you know if it helps or hinders concrete getting green in the humid damp like at the moment?

cocker5

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Thanks, might try that bio laundry detergent.

The sealer is def something to look in to. Do you know if it helps or hinders concrete getting green in the humid damp like at the moment?

no the green is algae residue (derives form surrounding trees / plant life) and not dog wee / poo related. this stuff I find great (but expensive)

https://www.clarkesofcavan.ie/product/wet-forget-outdoor-5-litre/

personally id use jeeves fluid each week to rinse away and invest in a power hose and clean monthly... will keep smell / green away etc

Squall Leonhart

Oh I know the green is unrelated to the dogs, I just wondered if sealing the concrete had any effect on it.

Thanks for the link ðŸ‘ðŸ»

tk123

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Do you know if it helps or hinders concrete getting green in the humid damp like at the moment?

No doesn't hinder it. We live in a very damp area.. but it makes it easier to keep it clean and dry. Like water/rain will dry rather than seep down into it.

opentarget

My two poo all over the garden. Huge dogs huge mess. I ended up replacing the slab with a stones. The piss drains off really well as its going down about a foot. Cleaning up the sh*t is another story. I dump it down the sewage pipe with a few buckets of rain water, it's hassle to make sure stones don't go in as well but it never smells. Every month I wash down ektb jaes fluid and the power hose.

Squall Leonhart

We had stones previously, found it difficult to clean the poo though... Fine if solid, but those days it was a bit looser... Plus they liked digging up the stones for fun and had holes everywhere. It's definitely cleaner now

opentarget

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

We had stones previously, found it difficult to clean the poo though... Fine if solid, but those days it was a bit looser... Plus they liked digging up the stones for fun and had holes everywhere. It's definitely cleaner now

I hear ye. We used a paving reinforcement mesh and filled the stones into it. I have two greyhound/dearhound crosses who are serious diggers and this has stumped them.