On How to Maintain and How to Clean Skateboard Sport Shoes

It is likely for skateboard shoes to become dirty, because the canvas material is widely used. Common dirt can be solved through washing with water. Yellow rusts, however, are tend to appear on shoe uppers where are close to shoe holes after using water to wash. The reason is that the color of metal shoe holes will fade off. It is very simple to solve this matter as well. Before wearing or washing, you can paint transparent nail polish on shoe holes. In this way, the oxidation of metal can be avoided, and your shoes will remain as new as possible as usual.

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. Never use heating installation or direct fire to dry it so as to avoid aging, gluing, color fading and severely deforming. 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. In general cases, the immersion time shall not be more than twenty minutes.

In the first step, you had better wash and brush the shoes to clean supposing that they are going to be stored for a long time. 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. As for real leather shoes, you had better use paper balls or shoes support to prop the inner shoes up, and therefore to avoid serious distortion. 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.

According to different materials, there are various methods. If the outsoles of shoes and shoe sides are made of non-nylon materials, and then you can spray a little collar net. After ten or so seconds, you can carry a soft toothbrush to wash and brush gently. 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.

After cleaning it, you should immediately use a dry rag to wipe cleanly the residual water. If you wash shoes with visible shoe-pads, what you ought you to do at first when the above procedures are completed is to cleanly wipe the water that surrounds shoe-pads. 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. As for cleaning methods, it will depend on the main materials of shoe uppers.