Wetsuit In Washing Machine

I take it you're a beginner?
Wait, nevermind, you joined in 2008.

 

No! You will completely ruin it. I mean, it will dry rot after about 3 washes. Just rinse it in warm/cool water in your shower and hang it over a bin somewhere until its done dripping. Thats what I do.

 

It will also get crunchy after a while of washing it.

 

i've done it plenty of times--just in the rinse cycle- delicate

 

go ahead throw it in the washer, delicate cycle, cold water, no detergent.... or you could just run it under some cold water and achieve the same results, save water and electricity that way. The suit gets beat on worse on your body surfing then it ever would in a cold wash cycle in a machine.

Regular soap/detergent is what dries out the suit, which is designed to penetrate fabrics, I would be worried the wetsuit/neoprene soap would ruin the washer more then the wetsuit. Them machines are fragile these days. Ive never used it, so i cant tell if you it gets rid of the great wetsuit fragrance

 

1 cap baby shampoo, 5 gal bucket, hand wash it. I get 5-7 years out of my wetsuits.

 

I do this in the tub once or twice a season and just rinse it out the rest of the time. I would be nervous something like a sleeve would hang up or something in a machine.

 

I have done it and it works ok... Not as great as you might expect. Not damage to suit but only did it a hand full of times. I felt like I achieved the same results- maybe better- by filling up the bath tube and soaking and washing it with wetsuit shampoo


#belmar

 

#busybeeslaundrymat

 

is there really a need to wash a wetsuit? It's not like you're wearing it out on a date. An unwashed wetsuit doesn't stink. After surfing, just rinse it with fresh water and hang dry...no extra wasted water or detergent. I have never washed my wetsuit and never had any problems

 

geez you were asking questions worse then that when you were a beginner RIsurfer

 

Three things, real quick, since I've soon got to assume the meditation pose in prep for the sunrise in lieu of the more common practice you humans call "sleeping".

1) Grom brah is off-limits for any bullying, hazing, reprimand, or other unconventional discipline. As Overgrown grom, I am supervising his ride through grommery. He was progressing quite well through the stage of early gromhood until most recently finding company in a rather motley crew of nihilistic, self-loathing adolescent non-achievers. While assimilation and affiliation are human nature, Grom brah's development is being arrested with such peers. We've got him on an intervention plan to refocus his rebellion and counterculture behaviors to be progressive rather than harmful to self and others. Yes , we will see relapse (and possibly prolapse), but such is common and the net gain will lead to full resolution of the issue.

2) It's no secret that THE preferred method of machine washing of any wetty or garment constructed of neoprene is to find the washing unit that the Asian contortionist from Ocean's Eleven resides in and hand the wetty or garment to him, then closing the lid firmly and setting the unit on spin cycle. You'll have a bacteriostatic wetty returned to you by pony express or carrier pigeon within 48 hours.

3) If you really want your wetty to not smell like Indian food wrapped in a baby's diaper, rinse it inside and out with cold water after every usage and wash it every two weeks with a capfull (or caps full for Mad Atom) of RipCurl Piss Off.

This message was brought to you by the organization known as International Hindu Oppression Prevention (IHOP).

 

And now for something completely different...............rationality.

What I've been doing lately is a cap full of woolite in the washer filled about half full with warm water. Agitate for maybe 30 sec, then shut it off and let it soak for an hour or two. Take it outside, hang it up, hose it off and let it dry. Haven't had any problems and it's a bit easier than washing them in the tub.

 

never in washing machine

 

i double that statement

 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

How long do you guys want a wetsuit to last anyways? I kinda figure if I can use it 100-200 times that is probably pretty darn good? More than that, well, do I really want to wear something I have peed in 1000 times?

I only got into the wetsuit game recently... I've probably used my 3mil fullsuit approx 40-50 times since I bought it in April and my 5.5/4 winter suit probably only like, 10-12 times so far...