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Avera Shoe Washing Bag
Shoes thrown into a bare drum is how people crack a washing machine, and how a toe box ends up folded in on itself. This bag absorbs the impact and does the scrubbing at the same time.
Loosen the laces, put both shoes in facing opposite ways, add your normal detergent straight into the bag, and zip it shut. Run a cold or 30°C cycle on a low spin.
Then hang the bag by the zip pull and let the shoes dry inside it, or take them out and stuff them with paper. Do not tumble dry — heat is what unglues a sole.
The bag is 39 × 19 cm, which takes a pair of adult trainers, canvas shoes, flats or kids’ shoes. High tops fit with the laces loosened.
Heavy work boots and anything with a leather upper that should not get soaked are the two things to keep out.
It goes through the wash with the shoes, so it cleans itself. Unzip it, shake the grit out and hang it to dry — the lining stays fluffy rather than matting down.
Ships within 24 hours. Free returns within 30 days.
A trainer weighs next to nothing dry and a fair bit wet, and at spin speed it is being thrown against the drum a few hundred times. That banging is not the shoe getting clean, it is the shoe and the machine wearing each other out.
The bag turns the impact into padding. The wall is thick enough that the shoe is never hitting steel, so the noise drops and the shape holds.
Loosen the laces and put the pair in facing opposite ways, so they sit flat rather than stacked.
Your normal detergent, straight into the bag with the shoes. No special product, no pre-soak.
The zip runs the full length, so it closes over a bulky trainer without forcing.
Cold or 30°C, low spin. Then hang the bag by the zip pull and let them dry.
The forty minutes you used to spend at the sink with a brush is now one cycle you are not in the room for.
An ordinary mesh laundry bag only protects. The shoe goes in dirty, gets tumbled about in soapy water and comes out mostly as it went in, which is why people give up on it and go back to scrubbing by hand.
This one is lined with soft chenille fingers. They press against the upper and move across it for the entire cycle — thousands of small passes over the mesh, the midsole and the seams. That is the brushing, done by the drum instead of by you.
Opens right down the side, so a chunky trainer goes in without being forced through a small mouth.
Water and detergent move through freely, which is what stops the shoe sitting in dirty water.
The zip pull takes a hook, so the bag dries on the rail instead of on a radiator.
The bag goes through the same cycle, so it comes out clean rather than becoming the next thing to wash.
Both, and the cleaning is the point. A plain mesh bag only stops the shoe knocking about — the shoe still comes out much as it went in. The chenille lining here is in contact with the upper for the whole cycle, so the shoe is being rubbed the entire time it is in there.
Heavily caked mud is worth knocking off under a tap first. Everything short of that comes off in the wash.
It is the opposite of the problem. Loose shoes hammer the drum and the door seal for the length of the cycle; inside a padded bag they never touch either. Run a low spin and it sounds like a normal wash.
Cold or 30°C on a low spin, with your normal detergent. Avoid hot water and avoid a fast spin — heat and force are what loosen the glue holding a sole on, not the washing itself.
One pair of adult trainers, which is the size it is built around. Two pairs of small kids’ shoes will go in together. Cramming two adult pairs in stops the lining reaching the surfaces, so they come out half done.
Trainers, canvas shoes, knit runners, flats and kids’ shoes are all fine. High tops fit with the laces loosened.
Keep out anything that should not be soaked at all — leather dress shoes, suede, and shoes with glued-on decoration.
No, and this is the one thing that ruins shoes people otherwise washed correctly. Tumble heat softens the adhesive between the upper and the sole. Hang the bag up by the zip pull, or take the shoes out and stuff them with paper.
It goes through the same cycle as the shoes, so it is washed every time it is used rather than staying damp and matting. Shake the grit out and hang it to dry and it stays fluffy.
Only if there is thick mud or grit sitting in the tread — knock that off under a tap so it does not end up in your machine. For ordinary city dirt, scuffs and general greying, it goes straight in.