Cleaning Muddy Wellies!

[Redruby2020]

Hi, I would like to find out what you do when your kids get really muddy wellies for example. For the first time ever i don't have a garden, and would of taken them out there in the past to wash and clean them. So now I get stuck with us coming home and having to leave the boots or trainers etc at the bottom of the stairs (we are in a flat) and come back to them later on. Been looking at products online and this 'Boot Buddy' comes up, as it has a brush on it I think it looks good but then don't know where I can brush them off indoors without splattering mud everywhere!
Thanks in advance.

Put them in a large plastic storage box so the mud dries and then then get them to put them on while sitting on the door step.

I just bought a Boot Buddy because Facebook kept advertising it to me, and we’ve been going on a lot of muddy walks in lockdown, and it’s really good! You could fill it up with water and brush the wellies down outside? You can just clean the wellies whilst standing on the pavement or a bit of grassy verge? Or if you have been in the car, brush the wellies down before you all get in the car, so you’re not getting your car all muddy inside? We have found that the water it holds does one pair of muddy boots, so if you want to clean more boots, take extra bottles of water so you can refill the Boot Buddy up.

@Thatwentbadly

Put them in a large plastic storage box so the mud dries and then then get them to put them on while sitting on the door step.

This. If you want to get the worst of the mud off bang them together when they are dry, preferably outside (although sounds like that might not be an easy option?) or maybe in a big bin.

I've never really cleaned wellies when they are wet, apart from if I'm power washing and just spray them off at the end.

Get a boot rack. You can get wood or metal ones, and they have a post upwards that you hang your boots upside down on. We've got one outside the back door and it's a godsend. No cleaning, they just dry off and you put on and off on the doorstep. It's saved my sanity

I’ve got a boot buddy too-I like it.

Clean it off when it's wet mud - much easier! How about having a large bucket of water by the door ready for when you get home. The boot buddy is great too - I bought one for my sons football boots.

Ditto the rack where you put them upside down outside! We have as wrought iron one that takes 4 pairs and it's great.

Mud daddy

This is portable , we are about to get one for the car for our mud-loving labrador and 6 pairs of wellies!

I just put them in a carrier bag (left open) for a bit to dry the mud then bash all the mud off outside

@Wigeon

I just bought a Boot Buddy because Facebook kept advertising it to me, and we’ve been going on a lot of muddy walks in lockdown, and it’s really good! You could fill it up with water and brush the wellies down outside? You can just clean the wellies whilst standing on the pavement or a bit of grassy verge? Or if you have been in the car, brush the wellies down before you all get in the car, so you’re not getting your car all muddy inside? We have found that the water it holds does one pair of muddy boots, so if you want to clean more boots, take extra bottles of water so you can refill the Boot Buddy up.

Thanks, I was hoping someone might come on and reply, who had bought the boot buddy. It does look and sound good. I mean breaking it down, it really looks like a stubby washing up brush to me lol, but because it has the added extras of the scraper the other end, and of course the part for the water, i guess it makes it more convenient than having to use a separate spray bottle.

@Wigeon Sorry I forgot t ask where you bought yours from, as I have seen a few all different prices, and I thought crikey £16.99 seemed a lot. Thanks.

@addicted2spaniels

Get a boot rack. You can get wood or metal ones, and they have a post upwards that you hang your boots upside down on. We've got one outside the back door and it's a godsend. No cleaning, they just dry off and you put on and off on the doorstep. It's saved my sanity

I can't do this as i'm in a flat

@AlwaysLatte

Clean it off when it's wet mud - much easier! How about having a large bucket of water by the door ready for when you get home. The boot buddy is great too - I bought one for my sons football boots.

I can't do that as I am in a first floor flat, thanks for the suggestion though.

I leave them outside the flat door and bang the excess mud off once dry over a bucket/the bath
Plastic bag good idea though.
Oh for a utility sink!

I just got the cheapest colour from the Boot Buddy website (green and blue) - £12.99 plus £2.99 postage, or free postage over £25. It was slightly more expensive on Amazon even though I’ve got free postage with Amazon Prime.

You are right that it is basically just a scrubbing brush with water, but it’s easier than a brush and a separate water bottle because the water drips out at the right speed to clean your boots, and you don’t have to hold a brush, a bottle and the boot all at the same time. And it’s got the scraper bit, which is also handy, although you could obviously just find a stick to use! But the right stick isn’t always immediately available!

I run them under the tap and put them on the radiator stuffed with kitchen roll or newspaper (we don't always have newspaper)

We just leave ours muddy and put them in a box. Put them on by the back door if they’re muddy. Sometimes they get cleaned by rainy days.

@addicted2spaniels

Get a boot rack. You can get wood or metal ones, and they have a post upwards that you hang your boots upside down on. We've got one outside the back door and it's a godsend. No cleaning, they just dry off and you put on and off on the doorstep. It's saved my sanity

I've been intending to get one of these but then realised I'd be putting my hands all over muddy wellies to put them on the rack. Especially at the moment where the mud is all the way up the sides of the wellies. Is it just accept you get muddy hands and wash them or is there a technique to it? (I don't mind getting muddy, I just don't want to be doing it wrong and then realise all along I could have avoided it )

@MagdasMadHouse

I run them under the tap and put them on the radiator stuffed with kitchen roll or newspaper (we don't always have newspaper)

Eughh what in the sink, I had to wash the rubber gloves off I use for mucky jobs yesterday in the kitchen sink, and felt disgusting doing that, knowing that despite disinfecting afterwards I wash my dishes in that sink! I had sprayed the gloves outside beforehand too as I was using an old spray bottle with cleaner in to spray and scrub boots with, I know I am over the top though😁

Another vote for the Boot Buddy, I got the £12.99 one direct from their website, it's quick and easy to use and the DC like doing their own boots with it which is a bonus!

@scrivette

Another vote for the Boot Buddy, I got the £12.99 one direct from their website, it's quick and easy to use and the DC like doing their own boots with it which is a bonus!

£12.99 sounds good. I ended up going out the front and cleaning them over the mud there, had a spray bottle and brush worked a treat, but yes a bit fiddly having to carry bits around and especially to have to do it out the front, oh I miss having a garden 🥲

People who have boot racks outside . . . Do you get spiders, etc in the wellies? Do they get cold and damp inside?

We have a mud daddy, love it. Fill it up before we go and wash boots and dog when we come back