Looking After Your Vinyl Collection

It is important to look after your vinyl records even when they are just sitting on a shelf at home. If you haven’t already, remove your records from their sleeves! I started doing this mostly for my valuable records but eventually you want to do this for all your records.

Here are some basic tips for looking after your records:

• Remove the vinyl from the jacket and use a protective sleeve just for the jacket cover. I use a 12″ regular sealable Blake record outer sleeve in crystal clear plastic

• Place vinyl record in a plastic inner sleeve, then place the protected record in a cardboard sleeve. I use the 40 Micron round button inner sleeve  – premium frosted plastic and a heavy duty cardboard sleeve

•  Using a 12″ large Blake record outer sleeve, place your record (in cardboard) BEHIND the sealed vinyl jacket cover.

They end up looking really great and you will have peace of mind knowing they wont get damaged either by splitting the seams of your jacket covers or nasty ring wear!