Frequently Asked Questions

For the full step-by-step cleaning guide, including photos and video, see our How to Clean Trail Running Shoes guide

About twice as fast - but it depends on a lot of different things.

If you leave them on a radiator early evening, they usually dry overnight.

If you leave them to drip dry without any other heat source, it takes around 2 days to fully dry a pair.

I experimented putting one trainer on a Trainer Drainer (not on a radiator) and one by the front door.

The Trainer Drainer shoe dried in 2 days, the shoe by the front door was still soaking wet and took 5 days to be totally dry - and the smell coming in the front door was awful on day 3 onwards - I'm not repeating this experiment.

Lots of factors will influence drying times, but I'm confident to say they dry at least twice as fast and don't smell.

This is up to you. The universal advice is not to put shoes directly on the radiators because the heat from the radiator can melt the glue and damage the shoes.

This can happen if shoes are heated above 50c. The radiator metal can get this hot or hotter..

If you put the Trainer Drainer on the radiator, it holds the shoes above the radiator so they are gently warmed by the rising warm air.

In tests at home, the air inside the shoes at the toe (hottest point) has not gone above 34c.

Many electric shoe dryers use warm air at 45c to dry shoes so the Trainer Drainer on top of a radiator is at the lower end of this temperature range.

As it is just using the passive heat from a radiator that is already on, it's not using any additional electricity or power making it a more eco friendly way to dry your shoes.

Of course, the Trainer Drainer works perfectly well anywhere and does not need to go on a radiator.

All manufacturers say do not dry on or near a radiator. If you choose to do this, it is at your own risk.

I've tested my daughters size 3's and my friends size 14's and they both fit - check out the video of another friends size 13's.

The length from toe to heel is 18.5cm so for smaller shoes, please check the inside length

Size 14's do fit fine but you need to pull the laces tight before you put them on the Trainer Drainer.

If the laces are wide open, the shoe might slip so far down that the heel is not above the drip tray.

Please always check the heel is above the drip tray, and pulling the laces tight will sort this out.

The trainer Drainer has a clip on the foot profile that attaches to the mount on the tray. If you push the back of the clip into the mount, and roll the foot forward it will clip into place.
Watch this video to see it in action.

Trainer Drainer's are always sold in pairs, one for each shoe to go on.

It's £14.99 for a pair / 2 drainer drainers. You get 2 Foot profiles and 2 trays per order - everything you need to drip dry a pair of trainers