subject: Nursing Methods To Clean Skateboard Shoes [print this page] It is likely for skateboard shoes to become dirty, because the canvas material is widely used. We can use water to remove ordinary dirt. But after washing with water, there always will be the appearance of yellow rust on vamps near the shoe holes. This is due to the color fading of metal shoe holes. It is very simple to solve this matter as well. Before wearing or washing, you can paint transparent nail polish on shoe holes. Through doing this, it not only can prevent metal oxidation, but also can make your shoes keep new for a long time.
When your shoes are dirty, it will be available for you to brush gently with water and a little detergent, and then rinse with clean water again. After washing, place it under cool and fresh to air-dried, but avoid making it be exposed to direct sunlight. For the sake of getting away from aging, gluing, color fading as well as severe deformation, do not open central heating or flame. Because excessive direct sunlight, the heat of hairdryer and other improper care methods all are likely to reduce the service life of shoes. It will not be right to make a long soak when they are washed and brushed. Under normal circumstances, the soak time should be less than twenty minutes.
If you want to have a long term storage, you should cleanly wash and brush the shoes first. When they are dry, put them in a cool and ventilated place. In this way, there will be sufficient time for them to be dried, so as to avoid mildew. In order to avoid serious deformation of shoes with genuine leather, it would be best for you to fill the inside shoes with paper balls or shoes support so as to hold up them. In order to make your shoes dry in ventilated place at common temperature, you should make your shoe-heads upside down and make your soles to be the opposite direction to the wall.
There are different ways for different materials. If the outsoles of shoes and shoe sides are made of non-nylon materials, and then you can spray a little collar net. A soft toothbrush can be used to gently wash and brush the places about more than ten seconds. But the brush time should not be too long. For the sake of washing away the bubble, warm water or cold water ought to be applied after you wash brush it. In this way, the erosion time that chemicals maybe put to your shoes can be tried to be reduced.
You ought to, at once, neatly wipe the residual water with a dry rag after you wash it. If the shoes you wash have visible cushions, you should firstly wipe cleanly the water around cushions when the above processes are finished. If possible, you can use toothpicks to remove the stones that are remained in lines of soles in the process of walking. The reason is that lines of outsoles will appear deformation if outsoles' lines are mingled with unusual substances for a long time. To some extent, it will affect the braking performance of shoes. The cleaning methods will rest with the primary materials composition of your vamps.
