Skateboard Sport Shoes’ Maintenance and Cleaning Methods

Skateboard shoes mostly are made of canvas, so they are easy to be dirty. We can use water to remove ordinary dirt. Yellow rusts, however, are tend to appear on shoe uppers where are close to shoe holes after using water to wash. 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.

You can gently brush the dirty shoes through using the compound of water and detergent, and followed by washing with neat water. In order to make it dry, you should put it into a cool place, where can not be directly exposed by the 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. They should be placed in a cool position with ventilation after they are in dry condition. 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. Put the shoe-heads downwards, make the soles toward the wall, and allow them to dry in ventilated place under normal temperature.

According to different materials, there are various methods. A bit collar net can be used if shoes' outsoles and shoe sides' materials are not nylon. After ten or so seconds, you can carry a soft toothbrush to wash and brush gently. However, it is not necessary for you to take a long time to brush. For the sake of washing away the bubble, warm water or cold water ought to be applied after you wash brush it. You should try to minimize the time that chemicals erode to your shoes.

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. Shoes' braking performance, to a certain degree, is going to be influenced by this. As for cleaning methods, it will depend on the main materials of shoe uppers.