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Cleaning breathables.

Started by JimJams, June 09, 2016, 04:29:51 PM

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JimJams

How does everyone clean their breathable waders? I seen an article recently...

http://www.hatchmag.com/blog/whats-living-your-waders/7711099

It advertises this cleargear stuff.

Now I've never bothered cleaning mine, hang them upto dry after use.
Few times I've forgotten to and had a bit of mould in them.
Any tips? (Apart from don't forget about them)


corsican dave

turning them inside-out definitely helps. once the mould starts you're pretty stuffed. apparently all breathables benefit from washing & then re-applying the DWR coating, but my experience has been the longer you can delay that the better. the re-proof is never as durable as the original proofing. so rinsing with fresh water then drying thoroughly inside & out is good practice
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're probably doing something wrong - John Gierach

JimJams

Spot on, I'll maybe give them a good cleaning inside and out, then dry them out and see how I get on! There still waterproof at least!
Home from Venice tomorrow! Stotting it down here but the weather looks good at home, pike by Saturday me thinks!

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