putting on a duvet cover

I've been using this method for a while now and have improved with practice. For me it's good as it means I don't have to lift the duvet above shoulder height.

If the instructions don't make sense Google the burrito method of changing a duvet, there's lots of UTube demos.

Oh, and I do it the other way round. Open edge at the top of the bed, so I can stand at the bottom and roll it up without walking round all the time. Then turn it round to the illustrated way once it's rolled and secure before unrolling it.

@Tudorrose - oh no! The English flat-sheet-under-the-duvet 'method' (my brother is just as bad). The point is, the duvet can't do its job like that.
With that sheet over your body, tucked in at the sides, you create a sort of cooling tube down either side of the bod. Take away the sheet, and the duvet is designed to wrap itself close to your side - lovely and warm!

My mother used to call her duvet her 'cloud' because of the way it enveloped her. I didn't like to point out that clouds were damp.

I'm planning to try this, having always used the reaching inside to the top corners, holding the duvet, and shaking it all into place method. The other reason I always wash the covers inside-out is that if you get a rogue sock trapped inside, which often seems to happen even if you pop the poppers, at least they fall out when you turn the covers the right way out again.

We use a top sheet. Got the tip from the USA - it stops the duvet from wandering to one side of the bed - usually not my side.

Well for heavens sake! Like KittyL I have been doing that for years? and I worked it out all for myself. I didn't need the USA to tell me that or about using a flat top sheet. Its obvious
Kitty that is weird I saw the rolling one first but not in full screen at the time.

I have always used a top sheet under the duvet. It keeps the warm air in when one's sleeping partner rolls over with the duvet.
It saves also saves on washing the duvet cover so often. With a sheet under the duvet cover you do not have to wash the cover any more often than you would if you had blankets on top.

As for pilling pillows and cushions all over the bed I do not get the point at all. There would be no place for the piles of designer cushions in my reasonable sized bedroom and life is too darnn short to faff about with them every morning.

I will look at the rolling method .

Thanks Tricia F I will have to try the dangling over the banisters one. The video looks a bit complicated , thanks (smile)

I agree - that looks far too complicated. I wash (and iron!) the duvet covers and pillow slips inside out (done up, so no knickers worm their way inside), undoing the buttons whilst ironing. Hang the duvet over the banisters, put arms in to top corners, hold the corners of the duvet and drop the lot over the banisters. Lay it on the bed, do up zip, buttons, poppers or whatever. (That's the most tedious part) Simples.

Now, we have a king size duvet, which, as far as I can see, should be 220 x 210 cm. I'm blowed if I can work out which is the longer side. I always have a bit of duvet cover which isn't filled. I have tried folding diagonally and following the sides along to see which is the longer of the two, and then doing the same for the cover, but it foxes me every time. Why can't they just be 220 x 220 then there'd be no confusion.

I saw this method on a YouTube video about three years ago and have used it ever since. I put the duvet cover on the bed, inside out, with the opening at the bed head, place the duvet on top and roll up from the foot of the bed. It works every time, although it is not so quick as some of he "grab and shake" methods, but they don't always work and then you waste a lot of time and effort! Live in a bungalow, so no banisters!

I need a top sheet anyway when I'm using blankets, so when it gets cold enough for a duvet I just keep the top sheet. It also has the advantage that it's quicker and easier to switch back to blankets when the weather turns warm again like this.

Well I think the burrito method is amazing. Just tried it with king size duvet. No need to change sides on bed. I just rolled it along from the middle. I shall add it to Useful things I have learnt from Gransnet. ( Along with rolling pants and tee shirts and storing plastic containers in drawers- not the same drawers I rolled though Thanks for sharing Grannyactivist.

That looks much easier than the way I do it!

Must try.

Wow, have just used this method to replace covers on 5 duvets ready for Christmas guests. So quick and easy, saved me loads of time.

I tried it and got back ache! I will stick to the standing up and shaking method.

65 posts on putting on a duvet cover.

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Finally, the one subject that keeps jings quiet!! Who would have thought it.

I'm with you on this Jings. Didn't Shirley Conran once say 'life's too short to stuff a mushroom' (let alone a bloody duvet cover). I enjoy fighting with my duvet cover - I always win.

Well I thought about you jingl- on sale for 1.95 at Dunhelm today, some very lare clips to hold corners in place as you shake the cover into place- hurrah.

I always use clothes pegs to keep the top of the duvet cover in place, too - it takes me at most 5 minutes to change the bed this way, and I regularly bless the name of my sister-in-law who told me of this method years ago. I always thought using a top sheet would negate the warmth of the duvet - and anyway, I can't stand having the bedding tucked in at the bottom. Regarding eiderdowns: remember how wonderful they felt, big puffy comforters! Can't help with a source, you could just try entering "eiderdowns" on Google!

Love this idea I will definetly try this when I next change the duvet cover. Someone must have heard me asking for an easier way to do this every time I changed the cover. BRILLIANT !!!

I do it the way Indiana said too. I also have some large plastic things from Kleeneeze that grip the corners so I put them on the two top ends before shaking to down. One of my duvets has open pockets in two corners so that you can put your hand in and pull the duvet up again if it slips down.

I use a couple of clothes pegs to keep the top corners of my king size duvet in place, then hold the two bottom corners and shake well and then do up the poppers befor e uncliping the pegs.Hey Presto!

Forgot to mention that l will give the video way a try when l change next week

Up to a point, Lord Copper with a very bouncy super Kingsize Duvet.
It kept unrolling at the start as I ran round the bed from one side to the other
Still, it was a good workout and when I've got my breath back, I'll extract it and start again to try and smooth out the huge ruckles across the quilt.