Does your laundry use brush washing or machine washing for shoes? Today, we’d like to share a case of a laundry factory that uses machine washing to efficiently clean shoes.
Shoe and footwear care, with its core advantages of no seasonal restrictions and high consumption frequency, has been a new profit growth point in the laundry industry. Many laundry shops achieve revenue growth with the layout of this business. However, there are still some questions in the industry development. On the one hand, employees lack a systematic understanding of the scientific washing methods and standardized procedures for machine-washed shoes. The non-standard operation leads to frequent washing and care accidents.
On the other hand, the phenomenon of blindly using the alkaline detergents is ubiquitous. It will easily cause the yellowing and oxidizing of the light-colored shoes and the whitening of the dark-colored shoes. Severely, it will damage the structure of the shoes and directly affect the washing and care experience. These questions lower consumers’ recognition of the laundry’s shoe-washing service and damage the laundry’s reputation.
This article, based on the practical experience of professional laundry factories and real laundry shop operation cases, has sorted out a set of efficient machine shoe washing standard processes suitable for fabric surfaces, mesh surfaces, and PU materials. Welcome everyone to discuss and exchange opinions together.
The set of high-efficiency machine shoe washing standard procedures is provided with practical materials by a professional laundry factory. The procedures are designed on the basis of the 25kg wet cleaning machine. It can finish the washing and care task of 25 shoes once. The core of the standard is about equipment, materials, and operations. Also, it ensures efficiency and washing quality, and it is strongly operational.
Preparation
Before washing shoes in machines, people should make preparations for standardizing materials and equipment. This is the basis of protecting washing and care.
● Equipment
The selection of laundry equipment should be editable machines. Kingstar wet cleaning machine SHS-2025P can adjust every link of laundry. Cooperating with the chemical dispensers, the parameter control can be more precise to meet the requirements of different washing and care links.
● Tools
The cleaning tools should be special silicone sponges for shoe washing. Three sponges should be used as a set and mixed according to the standard of using one set of sponges for three pairs of shoes. The silicone sponges are more in line with shoe materials, so they can reduce wear and tear on the shoe body while cleaning.
● Chemicals
The chemicals are professional shoe cleaning agents and color-safe bleach. They can fit the automatic process of machine washing and ensure the washing and care effects in terms of cleaning, color-protection, and disinfection.
After preparing the materials, people should carry out the standard operations according to the steps: pre-treatment, pre-wash, main wash, rinse, and post-wash finishing. The detailed control and parameter setting of every link directly affect the final washing and care effects.
● Pre-treatment
It is an important link before machine washing. People should finish the basic operations of tying the toe of the shoe and loosening the laces, and bag shoes with glossy coated surfaces to prevent coating wear during the cleaning process. – Dark-colored shoes and light-colored shoes should be cleaned in different washing machines. If they must be washed in the same machine, they need to be bagged separately to avoid color mixing.
– Shoes with suede leather strips or blocks need to undergo color fixation treatment before washing to prevent the leather from fading.
– Shoes with sharp metal parts on the upper or those with irregular shapes are not suitable for machine washing. They should be cleaned by hand brushing to prevent deformation of the shoe body or detachment of parts during machine washing.
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Laundry shops should use Kingstar wet cleaning machines and follow the following processes to clean the cloth, mesh, and PU shoes.
● Pre-wash
The aim is to remove the dirt and stains on the surface of the shoes.
Water level: medium
Washing time: 5 minutes
Spin/pause: 25s/5s
Spinning speed: 45rpm
The water should be drained after the pre-wash to make preparations for the following main wash process.
● Main wash
Main wash is the core washing process of the cleaning. The parameters should all be adjusted precisely.
Water level: medium or low
Water temperature: about 35℃
Washing time: 20minutes
Spin/pause: 25s/5s
Spinning speed: 45rpm
These parameters can make the shoe cleaning liquid fully exert its cleaning effect, deeply remove stains without damaging the shoe materials. During the main wash, people can choose the “Cooling” function in the program so that water can be added to the high water level after the washing to make the temperature lower and prevent color bleeding.
Dehydration:
500rpm for 2minutes.
● Rinse
The aim of rinsing is to remove the residual chemicals to avoid yellowing and stiffness.
Rinsing: twice
Water level: high
Rinsing time: 3minutes
Spin/pause: 25s/3s
Spinning speed: 45rpm
The water should be drained after the first rinsing. And the second rinsing should have the same parameters.
Medium dehydration:
500rpm for five minutes
After the full laundry process, people should check the shoes for residual stains.
Diluting the shoe cleaning liquid with water at a ratio of 10 times and using a toothbrush to dip the diluted shoe cleaning liquid and gently apply it to scrub can quickly remove the remaining stains and complete the entire cleaning and care process.
Actual Operation
From the actual operating angle, this standard shoe washing process ensures the quality, reduces costs, improves efficiency, and profits.
● Costs
The maintenance cost of machine washing single and double shoes is lower than that of manual scrubbing.
● Efficiency
The whole washing process is about 40minutes. A 25kg washing machine can complete at least 8 washing and care operations per day, with 25 pairs at a time。 That means 200 pairs of shoes can be washed and cared for in a single day. In contrast, with traditional manual scrubbing, a laundry worker can only handle a maximum of 20 to 25 pairs of laundry per day. The efficiency of machine washing far exceeds that of manual scrubbing, greatly reduces labor costs, and improves the overall operational efficiency of the store.
● Cleanliness
The machine washing process achieves unified and controllable cleaning effects through standardized parameter Settings and specialized material combinations. Compared with manual scrubbing, which has problems such as uneven force and many cleaning dead corners, machine washing can clean deep stains on shoe materials more comprehensively. Moreover, the entire process is operated mechanically, reducing the damage to shoe materials caused by manual contact. The washing and care process is safer, and the cleaning quality is more stable.
Q&A
Q: Can leather shoes be machine-washed?
A: Not recommended. The leather shoes may fade.
Q: Can snow boots be machine-washed?
A: Not recommended. It may damage the appearance of the shoes.
Q: Should the shoelaces be tied up when washing shoes in a washing machine?
A: It needs to be tied up because it is easy for the shoelaces to get tangled. You can also use a shoe washing bag and wash it in the bag to avoid tangling.
