Always Wondered About This One

I'm guessing that these are a finely structured foam that has excellent capillary action. If the action is better than that of carpets, the Shamwow will do a better job than carpets of "sucking up" spilled fluids.

Guessing again that a Shamwow of some particular size weighs 1/4 ounce, and absorbs 12x its own weight, that would be 3 ounces. On that ratio, it would take about 45 Shamwows (of that size) to absorb a gallon. Gallons x 45 might be a large number, but it ought to work.

Well the obvious answer is YES, given enough time -- but that invokes two follow-up questions: Where are you going to put the water sucked up by the Shamwows; and Wouldn't it just be quicker, cheaper and less work to get a pump and pump it out?

Your question also makes me wonder: What is the relationship (if any) between the dry volume of a sponge-type object, and the volume of liquid it can absorb? I've seen those dry, compressed sponges used for soldering stations that probably quadruple in volume one they are wetted; does the Shamwow do the same thing?

Where are you going to put the water....

Lets see - olympic sized pool = 660000 gallons x 8.3 pounds/gallon.... how are you going to move a 2750 ton sopping mass of Shamwows should be the question. One at a time would be a bit tedious.

I have around a dozen of these towels. My wife bought them a few years back from our Walmart store, not via the TV.

These do indeed work well and absorb a lot of water, or any other fluid I'm sure. I don't know how much, but is quite a bit!

I use them in the kitchen, the bathrooms, in my workshop, and in my garage. Generally, using them sure beats using paper towels. You can also wash them in the washing machine. Use the gentle cycle and just don't put them in the cloths dryer!

I even use them cleaning the interior of the cars.....and yes, using them as a car shammy (sp?) to remove the rinse water off the cars after washing them. Works great!

If you buy enough of them certainly will suck up the pool water, but then again I wouldn't want to foot that bill! LOL

Hello Moosie When you wash 'Shamwow's' make sure that the laundry detergent doesn't have any fabric softener in it, otherwise use dishwashing liquid !

And who was it that dumped a truckload of FIZZIES in the Swim Meet ?

Wasnt me i only put dishsoap in the fountain lol