Sheets and blankets or duvet

I haven’t got one myself but I’ve seen others on here mentioning a duvet that doesn’t need covers. You just wash it and return to the bed.

I use a flat sheet with duvet and cover. That way I don’t have to have a battle quite as often getting the cover on.

Coverless duvets all the way for me. So much easier to deal with.

Night Owl ones are very good.

I dispensed with duvets when I moved to my current home which is much warmer than our previous two houses.
I have a sheet, blanket and a thin bedspread-type quilt on top. It’s definitely easier than wrangling duvets into covers which I did for the best part of thirty years!

I do live in a hot country but our homes have no heating so it does get cold indoors, however I like a cold bedroom as long as I’m warm in bed.

We have “Coverless” washable covers - we love them

Doodledog

Coverless duvets all the way for me. So much easier to deal with.

Night Owl ones are very good.

Yes! Gamechanges x

Me too. I love my Night Owl one.

DD has gonee whole hog, sheets blankets, eiderdown and (home made) bedspread. We stick to our duvet. It is a very personal decision. can you borrow some sheets and blankets or buy some secondhand ones online and try it.

All DD's sheets and blankets are second hand. She has some beautiful linen sheets, gorgeous thick soft blankets. If it wasn't for a feather allergy, she would have a feather eiderdown, but has had to stick to polyester fill for that.

Those who use coverless duvets- do you have to use a launderette to wash the larger sizes? I have just bought 2 Nighthawk singles ( half price in M&S sale) for young visitors , but am tempted to buy a king for us.

Same question here - washing the duvets ?

The topic of coverless duvets pops up quite often and I’m tempted. But I’m puzzled when it’s said they can be washed and back on the bed that evening with no need for a tumble dryer.

How can that be possible if it’s not outdoor drying weather? When I hang my bedlinen to dry on an indoor clothes horse it takes 48 hrs to dry. I don’t have a tumble dryer. I can’t picture how a coverless duvet will dry the same day it’s washed.

I like the sound of coverless duvets but a king-size wouldn't go in my washer and the spinning would grind to a halt (learned the hard way with a fleecy throw)
There is a knack to putting a duvet cover on, you turn your cover inside out, reach inside to the far corners and grab two corners of your duvet and shake the cover down over it. Still a bit of an effort but I think it's easier.

I use coverless double duvets for my son who has epilepsy and sometimes has accidents (TMI). I have a 9kg washing machine and the duvets wash easily.

sassenach512

I like the sound of coverless duvets but a king-size wouldn't go in my washer and the spinning would grind to a halt (learned the hard way with a fleecy throw)
There is a knack to putting a duvet cover on, you turn your cover inside out, reach inside to the far corners and grab two corners of your duvet and shake the cover down over it. Still a bit of an effort but I think it's easier.

Despite the assurance on the label, our fleecy kingsize duvet which weighs less than the 10kg capacity of our washing machine, was a very tight fit. I tried it once, but the machine stopped mid spin.
Now I take it to the local laundrette and dry it over my heated airer, unless, like last week, the weather was fine and warm enough to hang it out to dry.
Still less hassle than fighting with a duvet cover, and less expensive than replacing my washing machine.

Yes Mollygo it's not worth wrecking your washer over, mine is only 8kg capacity.
Maybe as previously said, a sheet under it and a trip to the launderette now and again

Also does anyone know where to buy semi fitted top sheets? I can only find singles from health supplies. Does a top sheet under a duvet work well? I too am finding duvet cover changes a struggle.

I do what Beechnut does, use a sheet under the duvet, thereby not needing to change the duvet cover so often.

As I have said on here before, we find cellular blankets and a flat sheet best for us. We have four blankets and can regulate how many we need daily. This last week we have varied from four through three to two now back to three. They are so light weight there is no struggling with them to change the linen and they wash and dry so quickly. When we stay with our children we never sleep well, I get far too hot and OH, who is very tall, always has cold feet as they stick out the bottom of the bed.

In our 64 years of marriage we have always used blankets as when living in hot countries as we vdid for many years, very little need covering was needed and we now hate the weight of duvets.

I do get very puffed out trying to make up beds for visitors with duvets as they expect them, Tugging on duvets with arthritic hands and short arms is a nightmare that takes me a long sit down with a cuppa to recover!

There is already a thread on coverless duvets, which will answer any queries you might have before ordering one.
I still have a duvet with cover, which I struggle to get on, but will change to coverless when the time is right. My sister has them and when I stay I find it very light and cosy.

Duvet and an under duvet flat sheet. My housekeeping bar is set very low so I put off changing both for weeks. Who cares? Who sees?

My washing machine would commit hari kiri if I showed it a coverless duvet.

Turn the cover inside out and put your hands down to the 2 far corners, grab the duvet. And shake back down. How nice if we cou,l hire a couple of girl guides to help with duvets and a couple of boy scouts to sweep up conkers. Those days are gone.

We have two and take it for a service wash at home as kingsize bed.

In our holiday caravan there is a launderette on site and u use it wash the two kingsize beds Coverless duvets, dry them in the commercial dryers and they are back on the bed by bedtime.

I have coverless quilts too. You just bung them in the washing machine. They are very lightweight and dry very fast.

HelterSkelter cover less duvets compress into fairly small sizes and mine easily fits into my ordinary washer/dryer. It's very thin but so cosy. It's like sleeping in a cloud of hot air. Very very soft too.

I bought a set of 4 giant plastic clothes pegs (Amazon, about £4) - they make changing even a super king duvet cover on my own easy.

Feed one corner of the duvet into a bottom corner of the cover, fasten with a peg. Repeat with the other corner.

Repeat with top corners, give a really good shake, button up, shake again, done.