Contents:
- Preparing the down jacket for washing
- The correct washing mode
- Drying the down jacket
The white down jacket is a very stylish and warm element of the winter wardrobe. One thing is bad, you need to wash it often. To ensure that the down jacket is always clean and does not turn into a simple jacket after washing, you need to know some rules. If you wash it in a washing machine, you should select the correct mode, and also dry it properly. Only in this case there will be no divorce, the fluff will not get lost. How to wash a white down jacket, say many mistresses. There are several basic rules or tips that will help women cope with this difficult task.
Preparing the down jacket for washing
In order to wash the down jacket, the first thing to do is to get a liquid washing powder or even a specially designed for the fluff washing means. Their great variety in stores with household goods. Such a tool is simply a necessary condition for successful washing of a white product.
The best option is a gel for delicate fabrics. You can also use liquid soap or shampoo. A white down jacket can not just be washed with bleaching agents, despite the composition of the fabric. It is not known what effect such a tool will have on the stuffing of the down jacket. If he pushes, then you are provided with a divorce. The main thing is that the detergent is not powdery. The gel dissolves better, does not leave anything on the material from which the product is sewn, is not hammered under the fabric to the filler. This has a positive effect on the rinse quality, which is the most important factor for avoiding divorce.
Before you wash the down jacket in the car, it must be carefully inspected to identify the dirtiest places. This is usually a collar, cuffs, edge pockets. It is desirable to wash them with soap and water. Do not use shampoo or powder, because they are difficult to wash from a downy product. And soap is recommended to take economic, but not "red", and light against stains.
The down jacket must be fastened and turned inside out to avoid damaging the back of your favorite thing. Do not throw into the machine along with the product of fluff other things.
The correct washing mode
The main thing in a successful wash of the down jacket is the mode selection. It is he who gives the opportunity to wash the product without leaving a divorce. Do not wash it in water, the temperature of which is above 30 degrees.
Modes suitable for washing:
- wool;
- synthetics;
- Hand Wash.
Most often, divorces are a consequence of the fact that the stuffing of the down jacket is not quite clean initially. To a winter jacket to get a good wash without a divorce, you need to wash all the dirt from the fluff. Excellent helpers in this are simple tennis balls and a towel made of mahry. The balls will whip down, and the towel will prevent the ballooning of things onto the full drum of the washing machine. It is because of improper rinsing that there are stains on products that are filled with artificial material.
Delicate modes allow you to wash the thing so that the fluff does not start sticking out of the seams. That there were no divorces, it is necessary to set a mode which has 2-3 cycles of rinsing. If there is none, then it is recommended to put additional rinse. Tennis balls do not need to be removed, because they help the soap rather to wash out of the filler. You can add vinegar, which can remove solutions at this stage of washing the down jacket in the washing machine. And still you can cheat a little: instead of the third rinse put on the machine a wash lasting 30 minutes with a water temperature of 30 degrees. Add detergent is not necessary to get as a result of rinsing in warm water.
Drying of the down jacket
Almost all the results of washing depend directly on the correct drying and pressing of the product. To do this, follow some tips.
- The spinning should be performed at maximum speed. This is important for the material from which the down jacket is sewn.
- If the washing machine has a drying function, then the temperature for the product from the down filler should not exceed 30 degrees. After 30 minutes you can pull out the jacket and hang out in fresh air to dry up.
- If there is no built-in drying function, then after you get the down jacket from the washing machine, it needs to be unfastened and unscrewed. Pooh should be distributed evenly along the bottom of each cell. Dry the outer clothing should be in a horizontal position on the trembler.
- Do not dry outer clothing, especially with fluff in the middle, near any heating appliances. They overdry the delicate filler, make it brittle. Moreover, when drying the down jacket near the battery, the chance to detect the stains increases several times.
- The sun also does not have a very favorable effect on the fabric of the product. It is because of this that it will be best to shake it and hang it in a room with good ventilation.
For all the drying time, the down jacket should be beaten several times. This can be done in the washing machine in the spin mode. Put the down jacket and tennis balls in the drum and start the car. This procedure distributes the fluff throughout the product evenly and makes it fluffy and soft.
A vacuum cleaner is a good method for cleaning surplus moisture from the product. He whips down if you vacuum the product at low power without any nozzle.
Wash down jacket too often is not worth it, especially if it's light color. It does not matter that you can wash a thing by all rules, that the detergent will be gentle, and the washing schedule is delicate. Pooh and fabric in any case will lose its appearance and deteriorate. Fuzzies with each wash will more and more penetrate through the seams, and once a warm down jacket will become an ordinary jacket.