Advice please. How often do others wash their duvets and pillows?

Before covid the 2 double winter duvets I would take to a serviced launderette. And will do this summer. The summer duvets get a regular airing on sunny dry breezy days.

I must re read Heidi Callistemon21. I loved that story.

Dont leave Tinygranma. There are some names on here I would avoid sitting next to at a coffee morning ... sit next to me and we can have a laundry chat!!!

Same as sharon103 now that pillows and duvets are far less expensive than they used to be.
I get a couple of new pillows every year in the sales and get rid of the two oldest ones.

Tinygranma

I've decided to unsubscribe from Gransnet. I've been thinking about it for some time because there always seems to be some smart alec who's waiting to give a sarcastic answer. You know who you are. Why can't people just be nice? 👋

Honestly Tinygranma don't unsubscribe.
It's like water off a duck's back to the unkind posters.
It will change nothing.
Just ignore the put downs.
There are more than enough helpful posters.

Duvets and pillows get replaced here. I don't bother washing them.

I wash bedding weekly in summer, in winter much less,

Duvets get washed annually, as do pillows. I also air them on the line regularly in warmer weather.

I replace pillows every other year, duvets less so....when they go a bit "thin" and tatty.

Dunelm used to sell zipped duvet covers but then stopped selling them. I thought it was a good idea to have the duvet in two covers si it was annoying to not be able to buy them any more. I did find some suitable for a single bed recently so I’m going to check if they now do larger sizes. They still sell mattress and pillow protectors so why not duvet ones?

Ours go to the cleaners once a year - to be laundered. They’re far too big for my washing machine. We have all-seasons duvets, a light and a medium buttoned together, so the heavier once will usually go to be washed in summer, the lighter one in autumn.

I wash pillows (all down or feather and down) myself, one at a time at 40 deg. Probably once a year. They do need to be tumble dried, but come up like new.

OldFrill

Urmstongran

Surely by our age we ought to have this sussed.

What age is that?

The age where we can remember blankets and duvets were a peculiar Continental idea?
Only heard about in books like Heidi.

Only two Ziplock
I, much like everyone else wash the covers regularly but if the duvets have had enough then they go out
No need to leave tinygramma nothing wrong with your question and nothing wrong with most of the answers maybe the two chippy ones were having a bad day

Tinygranma

Thanks for your advice everyone. The coverless ones sound a brilliant idea Boz! Thank you for that advice. Urmstongram and RosiesMaw, I thought I had it sussed until the prices in the launderette went up. Thank you crazyH, that's exactly what I thought too!!

Well, with all the talk of bed bugs in the press and on another thread, I'm wondering if I should wash them on a hot wash!!

(Not seen a bed bug - as yet)

If something is not relevant or of interest just pass it by. No need to comment and perhaps upset someone who had posted.
We don’t know what is going on in people’s lives and it’s always nicer to be kind than snippy,

sniffy ha ha!
My duvet gets very sniffy with the visitors on my bed. 🐕 🐕 🐈 I wash it probably every few months, I have a large AEG 10 kg loader. The duvet dries in the tumble drier.
I used to run a 24 people property and found pillows far more grubby, greasy and discoloured than than duvets, so even with covers I would wash them more regularly.
At home I usually throw away pillows when they are getting on a bit. Too much washing causes them to go lumpy.

sodapop

I've never been successful at washing pillows so just replace them as necessary. I do use pillow protectors though which I wash fortnightly along with sheets and cases.
Duvet washed annually.

No, I find they go a but lumpy so they go off to the cats and dogs rescue place.

Goodness me, there are some quite unpleasant comments in reply to the posters question. unnecessarily so in my opinion. It’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask, and it’s quite interesting to read the varied answers. No need to be sniffy about it.

Urmstongran

Surely by our age we ought to have this sussed.

What age is that?

I meant to quote and answer JudgeJane.

Indeed.

And cooking, heat, anything really - to not be dusting.

I've never been successful at washing pillows so just replace them as necessary. I do use pillow protectors though which I wash fortnightly along with sheets and cases.
Duvet washed annually.

Don’t leave! I could discuss laundry all day 😂

I air mine outside in the summer. If any of them look grubby I put them through a wash as we have a 10kg drum

OP - I hope you haven’t left.

Tinygranma, don't let a couple of not so helpful responses upset you, there were more useful replies.

I wash top and bottom sheets and cases at least weekly, air the wool blanket, duvet, and bedspread. All one day, early to late. Done.

However, I use a tumble dryer - easy.

tanith

I don’t wash my thicker duvet just air it on the line the thinner one, pillows and protectors are washed in the machine.

Same here, but the pillows aren’t washed more than once a year, or the Summer duvet.Pillow protectors, the thick quilted kind are washed once a month and bedding is changed weekly.
All my duvets and pillows are filled with fibre not feathers.

I wouldnt do that Tinygrnama.
Up to you of course.

Sometimes, I can be surprised who has done a "smart alec" comment.
I sometimes think that that person may just be having a bad day.

News and Politics forum though - a different matter!

Guest pillows - the pillowcases I wash frequently. Eventually go to multiple covers.
Then throw pillows early, as have never found a successful, non expensive way to wash them.

Duvets - hand wash in bath.