Coverless Duvets

I also have Nightowl ones, and love them. I have 10.5 and 4.5 tog ones, and double up in winter, using the others separately depending on the weather.

Mine go in the washing machine and dry either in the dryer, on the line or over the heated airer depending on the weather and what else I am washing at the time. They dry very quickly - it's not remotely the same as drying an old-style duvet - and I wash and change them regularly.

I don't use a top sheet (why would anyone do that?) and obviously don't put a cover on them, as that would defeat the object.

Dont think I’ll bother. I have lots of covers so I’ll stick with my usual

We have King sized ones from The Fine Bedding Company.
4.5 tog is warm enough all year round for us. They go in the washing machine easily and dry quickly. We hang ours over the bannisters in winter and it's dry by bedtime.

How often is it recommended that you wash them?

I think excessive washing fades the colours. I bought some expensive Kirstie Allsopp bedding a few years ago. I chose it because it was such vivid, beautiful colours. After not too many washes it faded quite a lot. That’s on a 40 degree wash.

I couldn’t be bothered to keep washing a coverless duvet all the time.

Washing a coverless duvet is no harder than washing a sheet. They’re light as a feather.

SueDonim

Washing a coverless duvet is no harder than washing a sheet. They’re light as a feather.

I agree.
We have 2 and wash weekly.
No fading from Fine Bedding.

Each to their own- I like to have a crisp high quality duvet cover. We have a SuperKing bed and use it with two large single duvets, so much easier to change regularly.

Seven years ago I bought some Morris and Co cotton bedding. I wash it weekly on 40 degrees and it looks good as new.

Each to their own, but I'll stick to what I have.

Cossy

Gingster

I don’t fancy taking it to the launderette every 2/3 weeks. We have king sizes

I have mine collected and returned

Interesting - how much though? each time and per year?

Top sheets, bottom sheets, wool duvet, extra throws, top bedspread.

Wash sheets often, tumble dry.

Have you seen how put duvets on different ways on you tube may be easier for you

Claremont

Cossy

Gingster

I don’t fancy taking it to the launderette every 2/3 weeks. We have king sizes

I have mine collected and returned

Interesting - how much though? each time and per year?

I once had a king-size man-made duvet collected, washed and returned. £20 door-to-door. If I did it again I would use a different firm, When returned it was covered with tiny down filaments, so must have been washed in a huge machine along with feather/down duvets, and it smelled strongly of industrial detergent. I vacuumed off the down, and the smell eventually disappeared after a week or two draped over the landing banisters.

However, that was just one experience (I discovered that the "laundry" that did it was just a single bulk washing machine in a back room at an industrial complex) Someone "taking in washing" a a sideline.

I replaced that duvet with a smaller one that I could get into my own machine. Now no trouble washing it myself

To avoid struggles with duvet covers, I invested about £3.99 in a set of 4 giant clothes pegs from Amazon - the sort people use to stop beach towels blowing away.

Insert one bottom corner of the duvet into the correct corner of the cover, secure with a peg. Repeat with second bottom corner.
Repeat with top corners.
Give a good shake, button up, shake again.
Remove pegs, done.

I don't think anyone is saying that duvets with covers are impossible - people are just answering the questions about coverless ones.

I will be washing my Night Lark superking sized coverless duvet today. Buying it has been one of my better ideas.Life us too short to wrestle with duvet covers.

They say if you keep things for longer enough, they come back into fashion. This applies to eiderdowns too, it seems.

I bought mine from Lidl. King size summer weight around £11. One in summer, two in winter. Velcro patches on the corners to keep them together.
They wash and dry easily.
The only problem with buying from Lidl is the Get it or regret it factor. It took 12 months between buying my first one and the second one because when it’s gone, it’s gone.
I only bought one to start with because I didn’t know if it would work, then had to wait 12 months till they got them back in stock the following summer, because they had sold out so quickly.

Ooh, that is a bargain. If anyone sees them in Lidl again, please post? I will definitely go and buy some for my caravan, which currently has the old duvets from when we upgraded to coverless at home.

I’ll keep an eye out in Lidl this summer. I wanted to buy some single ones for our guest beds, (£8 ) but by the time I thought of it, they’d all gone.

My son uses them in Malaysia! Marvellous there as they are thin but you need just something with air con. Then into the machine and dry in a trice (out there!) often think I might get one or two here in UK especially when I get older.

We have duvets of several TOG ratings, but we still finese by using blankets of different fibres as night temperatures fluctuate so much We do also have bedspreads for warm evenings or sometimes just a sheet

We have had them for just over a year, and will never go back.
Ours are Nightowl 10.5 tog and are warm enough for us all year. Ours is a double, and just fitted in a standard machine, but we have since bought a larger capacity machine and that is obviously better.
When I wash them I do it first thing in the morning and hang it outside when possible, or drape over our dining table, sometimes with a dehumidifier on in the room, and have occasionally put in in the tumble dryer. Whichever way I’ve washed it it’s always ready to go back on the bed the same day.
I do agree that they are rather dull and boring visually, and would love a manufacturer to bring out a range in a variety of prints!

I don't have a specific coverless duvet but, since the arthritus in my arms has become so painful, my duvet is put on over the sheet and the duvet cover spread over the top. Doesn't look different!

I have summer ones and they're fab but will not fit in machine.