Washing an Event jacket.

StoneHuggingHippy

05/07/2012 at 16:46

Shewie wrote (see)

Probably best not to, luckily our dryer is older than Moses.

Yeah ours was quite aged but fully featured, not like this expensive pile of sh** we have now.
Anyway to the back up plan, the hairdryer, though i'm gonna give it a quick machine wash first as the hand wash may not have quite cleared the dirt out of the face material.

Luckily i also have some TX direct spray left.

We'll see how it goes.

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Crag Scrambler

05/07/2012 at 18:36

Yeah I ordered some of that soap liquid you suggested twig, I havent tried to wash mine yetbut I also mite use a hair dryer because my dryer is also some sort of auto heating thing and im deasly with an iron,
I also have a bottle of tx direct spray on hand lol

Seems this event stuff is pretty demanding stuff, tho my last Rab Bergen was letting in this one seems fine but the DWR dont seem to last very long, a few trips at most though as i said earlier I know that the rain lately has been very dirty.

pete_rbg

05/07/2012 at 18:53

A few words to add to this debate:

I've got two Rab eVent jackets, one bought second-hand from a friend which is a few years old and one I bought new from Cotswold Outdoors in this year's January sale.

I've always used liquid soap at 30 degrees, a second rinse, then iron on the two-star setting through a thin tea-towel.

The older Rab jacket has always returned to nearly-new performance (cuffs seem to sometimes wet out, but nothing else). The newer jacket has only been worn twice in persistent rain and wetted out the first time I wore it from new. I gave it my usual treatment (as mentioned above) and its performance was again crap the second time I used it. So I'm not sure if some eVent fabrics are now being produced by an inferior company (somewhere in China, no doubt).

I wrote a letter to Cotswold on 15th June, explaining my plight and asking for their advice on refund or replacement. I've heard sweet Fanny Adams from them to date.

Davey Mole

05/07/2012 at 20:23

just to add that if you don't fancy sticking the jacket in a tumble drier, you can always nick the Mrs's hairdrier and give it a good blow-dry. The heat should activate the DWR just like the drier/iron does......

StoneHuggingHippy

05/07/2012 at 22:15

Well i've put the jacket through two short washes and rinses to be 100% certain there was no residual dirt, applied a liberal coating of TX spray, zapped the thing with the hair dryer and it's currently beading almost like the day i bought it.

What a bloody performance though.

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Crag Scrambler

12/08/2012 at 12:50

Yeah I went through all the pullavar and washed the jacket and used a hairdryer to renew the dwr but a week later (2 trips up pillar side of ennerdale) in the rain and its wetting out again already although it isnt letting any wet in....well not until I take it off then it seems to wet out through the fabric.

Anyways I got hold of some of that tx spray and will give it another wash and a spray and see what happens.

Meanwhile my cheapy berghaus deluge trousers are still beading and keeping the wet out and still not getting clammy lol.