Coverless duvets - opinions, please?

If you find it difficult, I noticed in some hotels that they just use two flat sheets, one over and one under the duvet, plus the fitted sheet. Just do a nice fold-over at the top, and your duvet stays covered. Less faffing about.

I’m surprised these haven’t caught on, nobody seems to have ever heard of them. I’ve had mine for about 4 years and I love it. Light, snow white and no bloody cover to struggle with.

Has anyone got a super-king one with a non-polyester cover please?
Does it really fit in a domestic washer and actually wash clean?

My Night owl is the pink one and it is 100% polyester, the material is smooth as silk and light as a feather.
It washes really well and dries quickly outside.
It tents well over you for a cool sleep and also wraps close for more warmth and a snuggle.
I love mine.

Is this it nottooold?
www.finebedding.co.uk/products/night-owl?variant=19742368202814
It's not cotton.
I can't see how a cotton one would be light enough for the average domestic washer.
I may not be looking at the right thing.
I like the idea but we have a king size bed and a super-king...

Now this is weird I haven’t even commented on here ( I don’t think) and I m now getting nightowl ads on my Facebook newsfeed
Is £100 really possible for a duvet?
So we re going to go full circle and end up with eiderdowns with a new name and a new price tag ???

We are in USA at the moment and our bed in the hotel has a top sheet, duvet without a cover then a thin cotton bedspread

NotTooOld

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm still thinking it over. Incidentally Teacheranne, where do you find a maiden who will stand still long enough to let your duvet dry?

Ha, ha! Did I spell “ maiden” wrong or were you just being amusing? Either way, you made me laugh! I could not think of the more common name, which I have now, clothes horse - which actually seems just as funny!

I’ve actually just bought a Brabantia rotary dryer which can be used at a very low position to dry things such as pillows, flat so I guess I’ll be drying my new Night Owl duvet on it. I’ve had it installed on an area of my patio which I never use so no excuse not to dry my washing outdoors!

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm still thinking it over. Incidentally Teacheranne, where do you find a maiden who will stand still long enough to let your duvet dry?

Good old duvet covers for me. I've never found them a problem to change, wash, & dry - ours are king-size. It's nice having the different pattern/colours - they make a cheerful regular change in the bedroom. I don't like having a top-sheet under a duvet; IMO it's too much of a faff!

If there are two of you why not change the duvet cover together? You could each take a corner and place it at the end inside the cover, then the duvet would be in place. Just shake down before releasing the end of the duvet.

Just watched the burrito method on you tube. Going to do that next time I change my cover. I have always done it the having duvet inside out and grabbing the corners and pulling it over. But the burrito method will save my poor arms . Thank you Hetty.

Yes, it would, Nottooold. Fling it over a bannister or a radiator, if you can’t put it outdoors, and it’ll soon be dry.

I use a top sheet so I don't need to battle with the quilt cover so often.

Hetty58

NotTooOld, it's far too much of a kerfuffle washing a big quilt. Have you tried the 'burrito roll' method of changing the covers?

Another fan of this method it works well and is fairly easy for my arthritic hands and back to manage.

I don't have a tumble dryer. Would a Night Owl 4.5 tog coverless duvet dry fairly quickly after just a spin dry?

I always use a top sheet - not to save changing the duvet cover so often, though. I like to be tucked in and, without that, the duvet would disappear over to DH's side of the bed! I would probably go for a coverless duvet next time I need to buy one as I can never get the duvet evenly distributed inside the cover!

Oh just noticed yours Sue. Like minds.

I broke my Bosch washing machine by overloading with a heavy ( when wet) blanket. Have learned my lesson and won’t repeat.
I use a sheet between quilt and bottom sheet so there is no need to wash quilt cover very often.

Hi, finebedding.co.uk have currently got 20% off all orders (including night owl duvets) for the jubilee weekend of that interests anyone?

I’m hovering over the “purchase button” as yet undecided whether to try the burrito roll method on my current duvet this afternoon first!!!

My duvet is wool with a cotton cover, Elegran! No man made fibres. It’s massive so I have a cover on it and use a top sheet so the cover only needs changing now and then.

I have the grey marl coverless duvet from silent night on our single guest bed and its brilliant .So much easier . Has a nice matching pillow with it as well.

Way back in the sixties, when duvets were an exotic innovation in the Uk (they were called continental quilts then) and most people had never heard of them, I visited Germany. The beds all had enormous fluffy down quilts, in snow-white covers.

Those covers were removable, but with washable duvets with manmade fillings and polycotton covers, why do we insist on having a separate duvet cover and a separate top sheet?

Also, on the continent it is more usual to have two single duvets for a a double or kingsize bed, not one large one that is a pain to change the cover and impossible to get into a washing machine.

Recently I have been using a single manmade duvet (Ikea, white, very cheap) and not adding any cover. I can wash and spin it, and drape it over a clothes-horse indoors, and it is ready to put back on the bed that evening or even sooner. I can change the bottom sheet and the pillowcases and leave the bed open all day, and just add the duvet when I go to bed. No wrestling with the cover!

(Ikea prices - £4 to £165. Mine was called "Mysa sno" and was about £10, but they don't seem to stock that now)

I’ve got several Night Owl coverless duvets, mainly for when GC visit so I can cut out endless duvet cover changing. I’ve got one double 10.5tog but it creases badly in the washing machine. I wish I’d bought two single sizes instead, as they’re a cinch to wash and dry.

what about blankets.
i find them easier to deal with.
i use light fluffy synthetic ones, easy to wash and dry. and useful for sofa too,
i find them more adjustable, to get the right temp, and cosiness.