mardi 2 juin 2015

A Step-By-Step Guide On How To Clean A Wetsuit

By Ericka Marsh


A wetsuit is an integral component for those of us who love skin diving and surfing. Water out in the ocean can feel icy regardless of the hot period in a year. A well-maintained suit helps to keep us warm while we have our fun underwater. Rinsing the outer and inner layers of our diving wear with fresh water after use helps to keep odours and bacteria at bay. There is a formal way of how to clean a wetsuit to maintain its optimum conditions.

Our underwater suit is made from a fabric called neoprene. Such a material comes with certain products required to keep it clean and maintain its ideal conditions. We need to use a special shampoo to wash our neoprene suit, which is available in surf and diving shops. Zipper lubricant and wide hangers are other components we shall need to maintain and clean particular suit.

You begin the process by filling up your bathtub with lukewarm water. To this, you add the correct dollop of neoprene fabric cleaning shampoo. Of the common types of shampoos, the recommended amount is half an ounce of shampoo for each gallon of lukewarm water. You may however confirm the right amount to use from the shampoo labelling on the packaging or bottle.

Gently swishing around the wetsuit in the shampooed water is your next step. This swishing removes any debris or sand from your suit. You should make sure the water gets to every crook and cranny of inner parts of a suit. Next comes thoroughly rinsing the suit using a fresh round of trepid water. Remember to rinse the inside of this suit too. Your shower jet is the most preferred means of doing this.

Once you are through with rinsing, you then proceed to hung out the wet suit from your shower rod. Use one of the wide hangers for this. Hanging enables dripping off getting rid of most of the moisture. You should then hung the suit away from humidity and wetness in your bathroom, completing the drying off process. Make sure that as the suit dries up, you keep it away from sunlight. The reason is that direct sunlight on the suit causes wearing out prematurely.

The last stage involves opening up your suits zipper and squeezing zipper lubricant onto both its sides. You should concentrate on outer teeth of your suit. Close and then open your zipper a number of times, which ensures the oil gets into every bit of this zipper. Should you use your suit regularly, the recommendation is washing it at least two times per month.

We must never wash our wetsuits in any washing machine as we do our other clothing. Washing machines would cause severe damage to this suit. To keep away bad odours and disinfect it, we can use deodorant. When we are not using our wetsuit, we must hang it away rather than fold it with other clothing. Folding results in cracks and cracks consequently develop into tears. We must use beefy hangers and we ought to avoid hanging our suits with thin wire types of hangers. Such wire hangers dig into the material, which leads to cracks.

Cleaning our wetsuits is not complicated, which is a good thing. With the use of these maintenance and cleaning routines, we are assured of long service from our suits.




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