People who prefer an active lifestyle and go in for winter sports are often faced with the need to wash special sportswear. Not everyone knows how to wash a ski suit in a washing machine, so often a damaged item with a downed filler is taken out of the machine. This leads to the fact that you have to invest additional funds to buy clothes. All this can be avoided if you clearly remember the rules for washing such suits.
Basic rules for the care of a ski suit
It is not necessary to wash the ski coat infrequently, once or twice a season is enough. If skiing is not very intense, then at the end of winter you can clean such clothes with a damp cloth, dry them and put them in storage.
The frequency of washing a ski suit directly depends on the neatness of a person, the weather and the intensity of sports activities. In addition, the quality of the sports jacket and ski pants plays a big role. In order not to spoil such expensive things, you need to know exactly how you can wash sportswear and how it is not desirable.
- The ski suit is washed well in an automatic machine, but gentle washing modes are chosen, such as delicate or for synthetic items. Too intensive washing or strong spinning can ruin the skier.
- When washing a ski jacket or pants on a typewriter, set the minimum number of revolutions for spinning. You can not set the spin at all, but let the water drain naturally, and then hang the suit to dry.
- After the items have been washed, they should be hung to dry in a well-ventilated area or outside in the shade.
- For washing sportswear, special gels are used without chlorine and other caustic components. Washing ski suits with ordinary detergents is not worth it.
- In order not to wash the ski jacket and pants often, it is recommended to treat them with special compounds that prevent contamination.
When washing the suit in the machine, it is necessary to set an additional rinse so that ugly soap stains do not remain on the fabric.
If you properly store and dry your ski suit, you won't have to wash it too often.
How to wash down and fleece ski clothing
Washing sweatpants and fleece-filled jackets is easy. Such things can be washed both in a washing machine and by hand, the only rule is that aggressive detergents and air conditioners should not be used. The washing gel for such sportswear should be neutral and not form a lot of foam. The washed skier is dried in a warm ventilated room, although drying is allowed outside in the shade of trees with a slight wind. Proper washing of ski clothing is carried out according to the following algorithm:
- The thing is loaded into the drum of the machine and the door is closed.
- A special gel for washing such things is poured into the powder compartment.
- Set the delicate washing mode without spinning.
- After the wash is over, the suit is taken out, allowed to drain and laid out to dry.
Dry winter suits in a horizontal position, things are periodically turned over so that they dry well on all sides.
Down-filled clothes should be washed very carefully, the spin on the typewriter must be turned off. Detergent for washing down sportswear should be delicate and must contain a mark that they are allowed to wash such things. The spin on the machine is turned off, after washing the suit is left to drain, and then laid out on the dryer for further drying.
Do not dry a down-filled suit on a line.In this position, the stuffing will be taken in pieces, the thing will be hopelessly damaged.
How to wash ski clothes with a membrane fabric
You can wash a ski suit with a membrane, but it is better to do it by hand. In the sporting goods store, you can buy various products for delicate washing of such things, as well as special cans with an impregnating composition. Things are treated with such impregnation when the fabric is absolutely clean and dry. It is strictly forbidden to use powders with bleaching agents. In addition, during washing in the washing machine, the twisting and drying modes should be turned off.
What to look out for
In order for the ski suit to serve its owner as long as possible, it must be properly looked after.Particular attention is paid to the following points:
- Before washing the skier, you must carefully study the label. Manufacturers indicate there all the information about washing and drying the product.
- If there is no certainty that the suit will be washed at home well, then it is better to entrust the cleaning of clothes to dry cleaners.
- After washing, the tracksuit should be dried only in a horizontal position, spread out on a fly towel.
- Iron ski suits inside out with a slightly warm iron.
Many people like to go skiing or snowboarding in winter. After such active walks, tracksuits require cleaning, and in some cases washing. The service life of the skier depends on how well the care of such a thing is organized.
