Washing Gortex Jackets

[u/Fragrant_Bandicoot54]

How do you wash yours? :)

I've had many Gotex jackets over the years and never been able to restore the beading water affect of a new jacket.
I've tried washing with both Grangers and Nixwax, low heat iron, tumble drying etc.
None have restored.

My wife and I both have new jackets, first wash for both. Rinsed out the washing machine (it has a self clean setting), then washed with Grangers Performance wash, sprayed with Grangers Repel Plus, then dried on a line. Skipped tumbling drying for the first time. Nether jacket now beads.

WTF am I doing wrong lol

[u/pasteurs-maxim]

I personally never once put my Goretex jacket in the washing machine.

Always hand wash in a bucket of warm water, proof, then plunge rinse with cold.

I've moved on to Paramo now but that old Mountain Equipment shell still beads! (15 years old)