I swear by Nikwax for my snowboarding and hiking gear. It can of course only return the clothes to their 'natural' state, so if your jacket is only 5k, that's all you're getting. But importantly, you mustly wash those kind of clothes with normal detergent. On top of the wash-in I also add some extra spray on key areas, so hood, shoulders and cuffs on the jacket (as that's where water collects if it's raining), and butt and knees on pants.
Very informative. 10/10 would recommend more hot tub tests. Maybe next time try a comparative test? Say.... Nikwax vs completely wrapped in saran wrap??
You have to use far more nikwax than they reccomend to waterproof a garment! They say use 2 cap fulls of wash in nikwax solution for one garment. But I use around 8 cap fills per garment. Also hand wash garments when reproofing them don't machine wash them. Because the machine is too vigorous. I have found that washing machines actually damage waterproof clothing and cause tapes on seems to come lose and destroy the waterproof eliminating on the inside of the jacket. By the way I strongly reccomend Barbour waxed jackets for outdoor wear as they are much easier to reproof. Just use wax and a hair dryer. Loden wool coats are also very water resistant and require no waterproofing at all. Loden is boiled wool which is made into coats. It is water resistant enough to keep you dry in up to two hours of torrential rain.
Chris going HAM on the Gear! Wash in is OK. But I found that the Spray On treatment works the best after a good cleaning. Kudos for an entertaining Vid!
still have a now ~5year old scott softshell without a membrane. when new it was totally waterproof for about quarter to half a year anyways, rolling the beads off perfectly. that state even survived a couple times washing before it started to fade. will try the nikwax today and wonder how good it's gonna work. btw. you should probably linex yourself ;)
I think the one takeaway I got from people is to be generous with the waterproofing, if it says use half the container, use 3/4 kind of thing, good luck
quick update: i'm pretty happy with the initial result; only checked lower sleeves under the tap and about 97 % of the surface remain completely dry. considering the age of the jackets and miles of rubbing against each other, i expected the outcome to be worse... probably not jacuzzi proof, but still enough for a bit of fun in a medium shower
Dwr coating does not work in the long run. It does not make sense that the membrane is dependent on dwr to work optimally. Looking forward to they invent something better. Goretex is not worth the money. That's just my opinion
Great test but a tad excessive... i dont think ive ever been caught in in shower grade rain. The hot tub saturation test was great though... how long did it take to dry your pants out?
@@ChrisEyres I was impressed with mine. I dint stand in the shower lol. I started off with a pair of pants that had 0% water repellency left last season and this year I had a dry bum from the start and stood in a snow gun for a while. At least so far I am happy. Pow test, yet to come to my area.
I think you’re in the market for a scuba Dry Suit. Hilarious dude! Love the honest opinion since I have used this in the past and thought maybe it was just the way I used it which made it perform poorly... Hope your season is 🤙
I used spray model on gore tex castelli RoS cycling jacket. Spray doesn’t work looks like I need to spend another $400 on 2021 model smh...big let down
Just synthetic materials I think, you should get some product specific for leather and then you get the joy of rubbing it in. Nikwax does have products for leather but I think it's for shoes, not sure for jacket. Just make sure whatever you get it should be specifically for leather
You must have the clothes in a dryer to reactivate the DWR (the heat does the job). Otherwise it will not be water repellent to the same extent. This is clearly stated in the Nikwax instructions.
Hahaaaaa, um hot tub test? 🤣🤣🤣 anyway sweet you have one apres ski/board... stylin’ I washed my jacket with normal detergent, waited to dry, then applied Nikwax spray. It was drizzly today, but I didn’t get affected. I wonder if the chlorine from the hot tub would wreck the application🤔
Nikwax TX.Direct and TX.Wash In is junk, shouldn't be called DWR as there is no Durable in it ! Only product today that is close to DWR is Atsko Permanent Water-Guard a water base PTFE DWR and even that is now discontinued ! Looking for C8 and C6 solvent base DWR !
You and your buddies should get some old jackets and snow pants together and throw them on a fire. Record it on video and post it on here. It would be awesome if you could do that! Seriously.