My Toggi Boots STINK !!!! HELP !!!

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They are hudsons, mostly canvas, some leather, and I ADORE them - but three years on, they really do have a serious odour :eek:

I've tried scrubbing the canvas and the soles (these have a soaked in urine smell that could turn milk sour), using Zoflora spray, using neutradol, everything. But they stink. When i leave them in the hallway, you can smell them a mile off, and it ain't nice.

I am toying with the idea of the washing them in the machine on a cool quick wash, before they have to be retired for ever for somewhere for the ferrets to stash nuggets in. Hubs says this will kill them (machine not ferrets) - the cardboard in the soles and the leather.

Any suggestions welcomed. :)
 
Billabong is on the money. My special needs son used to wee on the carpet (because he liked the sound), anyway, I scrubbed away, put essential oils everywhere, neutradol, everything i could think of. So I heard about bicarbonate of soda, and I had a 20kg bag of the stuff from making bath bombs, put it down (it looked like Narnia), it never smelt after that. I'd buy a pot for each boot, it needs a decent amount. Washing wont kill the bacteria, infact it makes it worse, it seems to dilute it, then it comes back worse?.x
 
Wrap them in carrier bags and stick them in the freezer. I've no idea if this actually works, but I remember it from a 'Kim and Aggie' program where the problem was smelly trainers. Freezing apparently kills the bacteria that make the smell.
 
Sadly I doubt a cool wash would do the trick as it wouldn't kill the bacteria causing the smell. :( So probably not worth risking ruining your boots for.
 
I was told used coffee grounds were good for unpleasant smells. Once used them in a smelly fridge, the rank smell went but I was left with a fridge smelling of coffee ;)
 
Thank you so much everyone ! I think i will get the Bicarb today and give that a go first. Our freezer is so small, i wouldn't be able to get them in *sigh* - and if the bicarb fails, I'll raid hub's coffee.

I don't want a new pair as I've been through a lot with these boots. How sad is that.
 
I wash my Dubarry boots out once a year with Nic Wax which is a detergent for cleaning and re vitalising goretex and then reproof the gore tex with Nic Wax proofer 4 years old still waterproof. If the Hudsons are like the Toggi hHamiltons they have card board under the foot bed so I would check on that it might disintergrate if you wash them out.
 
Going to try that bi-carb trick in my Mountain Horse boots tonight - OH keeps on complaining about a funny smell by the door and strange thing is he only moans when that's where my boots are . . . . can't think why :o
 
Yup, that smell by the door is still there and OMG it's bad - have to get the Bicarb tomorrow now. :)

I did think that there could be cardboard in the soles, so the washing machine is out.
 
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