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

tinygranma just ignore posts you don't like. Gransnet is very useful and there are many nice friendly people, some with a great sense of humour. It's good company too if you're stuck at home a lot.

Doodledog I use the machine at the local garage. Just called it laundromat for easiness, they are great value. I wash rugs there too.

Once or twice a year for duvets, depending on how they look or how I feel, I take them to a laundromat and dry them outside, it's much too expensive now to take to the cleaners. Pillows when they look like they need it. I use thick pillow protectors which helps. I wash them in the machine and line dry followed by tumble dryer.

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I have a new stylus, it can't spell.

We've hot a new all-cotton duvet that came with our new bed, still in its bag because it feels extremely heavy.
Has anyone used a cotton duvet?
I wished afterwards I'd ordered the wool one.

paddyann54

I change bedding twice a week and wash mattress toppers once a month ,duvets and pillows ,feather ones wash really well,are done every 3 or 4 months.My OH has quite bad allergies so it has to be done.I also vaccuum the mattress regularly

Oh! I threw out our feather duvets and some pillows, not realising they would wash ok.

In fact, there's a big pile of feather cushions waiting to be recycled. Perhaps I'll try washing one.

I can wash my duvets one at a time in the washing-machine I have. I wash them on a 40 or 60 degree cycle, give them an exrtra rinse and spin cycle than put them in the dryer with at least four tennis balls or the plastic balls that are made for putting in the dryer with padded clothing or anything containing feathers.

Quilts can be washed this way too, and pillows, usually two at a time, and all dried in the dryer with balls hopping around making a din, but whacking the lumps out of existence.

I air them regularly, either by hanging them out on the line on a dry day, or hanging them over a chair back near an open window.

All bedding washed weekly, including mattress covers.
We have two single duvets on our KS bed which works well for us in many ways. They fit in the machine and are washed at the end of each season.
Larger duvets are hung on the line twice a year and replaced after 2 years.

Looking at the cost and hassle involved with washing a large duvet I decided to follow my dd’s lead and just replace it after a couple of years. I just get on to Amazon and bobs your uncle a nice new unlumpy one appears. Wash the bed linen once a fortnight.. give the old one to my daughter for a dog bed.

I change bedding twice a week and wash mattress toppers once a month ,duvets and pillows ,feather ones wash really well,are done every 3 or 4 months.My OH has quite bad allergies so it has to be done.I also vaccuum the mattress regularly

PS, actually it’s 4 different bed sizes - single, double, king and one that’s between king and super-king (sale bargain) so I have to use a SK duvet and cover for that.

Callistemon21

welbeck

MissAdventure

I just do whatever I want, whenever I feel up to doing it.
I don't have a routine anymore. 🙂

put it there pal !
a person after mine own heart.
a 'helpful' friend told that each set, of duvet cover and base sheet, could be neatly folded to fit inside its matching pillow case, and this helped storage and retrieval.
i thought that would have really interested me when i was about 20; latterly i couldn't care less what colour or pattern, just anything that fitted.
i didn't want to shock her by dismissing her idea, so it's good to own up here. anon.

I thought about that method when I was searching for a missing sheet tidying the airing cupboard the other day and decided it was an excellent method.

Perhaps for another time 😁

I do this, just so I can find everything quickly - 3 different bed sizes in this house and our airing cupboard is far too small. Was v pleased with this tip. I just fold them roughly and stuff them in though - nothing meticulous about my methods!

maytime2

My daughter only buys "cheap" duvets from such places as B&M or Home Bargains. Especially when the children were younger and were more likely to be sick or wet the bed. Her reasoning is that it would cost more to take a duvet to a launderette to be washed and dried than it would to purchase a new cheap one.
I should add that the old duvets are taken to a dog rescue center to be re-used.

My sister has approximately a million grandchildren, so is used to bedtime accidents. She was saying that her local garage has installed huge washers and dryers on the forecourt, and others in the chain are doing the same. Her local one charges £15 to wash a (very large) load, plus the cost of drying, which is usually more than the washing charge. Unless you are running an B&B or something (so you use the machines to capacity), it would almost certainly be cheaper to donate soiled duvets than to wash them on anything like a regular basis. This is why I am so enamoured of coverless duvets, as they go in a regular machine and dry in no time.

welbeck

MissAdventure

I just do whatever I want, whenever I feel up to doing it.
I don't have a routine anymore. 🙂

put it there pal !
a person after mine own heart.
a 'helpful' friend told that each set, of duvet cover and base sheet, could be neatly folded to fit inside its matching pillow case, and this helped storage and retrieval.
i thought that would have really interested me when i was about 20; latterly i couldn't care less what colour or pattern, just anything that fitted.
i didn't want to shock her by dismissing her idea, so it's good to own up here. anon.

I thought about that method when I was searching for a missing sheet tidying the airing cupboard the other day and decided it was an excellent method.

Perhaps for another time 😁

tinygranma these people who write nasty comments behind a forum were probably bullies at school/ work and still are, ignore them , bullies don’t like that. Don’t reply to their post and carry on enjoying gransnet, for every nasty person there are 100s of lovely kind helpful gransnetters .

My daughter only buys "cheap" duvets from such places as B&M or Home Bargains. Especially when the children were younger and were more likely to be sick or wet the bed. Her reasoning is that it would cost more to take a duvet to a launderette to be washed and dried than it would to purchase a new cheap one.
I should add that the old duvets are taken to a dog rescue center to be re-used.

I have a winter one and a summer one, I put them on tge line at changeover time, replace every two or three years.

My motto. As long as its clean ish, on it goes.
No ironing, and everything is similar so it all sort of matches.

Ailidh

I change the bedding once a fortnight. The duvet and the pillow are wool filled, I'm kind of hoping they're sort of self-cleansing.

Same here. The care instructions said to air them outside on a sunny day, so I do that a few times each year. Love my wool duvet, it’s such a treat on cold nights!

i also found pillows go irretrievably lumpy or twisted after washing.
easier to just bin them.
got 4 for £12 in B&M recently.
they have lots, different prices/qualities.

MissAdventure

I just do whatever I want, whenever I feel up to doing it.
I don't have a routine anymore. 🙂

put it there pal !
a person after mine own heart.
a 'helpful' friend told that each set, of duvet cover and base sheet, could be neatly folded to fit inside its matching pillow case, and this helped storage and retrieval.
i thought that would have really interested me when i was about 20; latterly i couldn't care less what colour or pattern, just anything that fitted.
i didn't want to shock her by dismissing her idea, so it's good to own up here. anon.

I have tried countless times to launder pillows and regardless of how much they cost they have ALWAYS gone lumpy in the wash. Now, I simply don't bother washing them, just dump them when they look discoloured.

there will be care instructions on the packaging and also on the sewn-in label.
a circle crossed out means do not dry clean.

i read recently that a king sized duvet can be washed in a 9kg machine.

i've given up with duvets.
i tend to buy cheap fleecy blankets and wrap myself in those.
they are easy to wash and dry.
i don't bother with sheets either mostly.
in winter i get inside a sleeping bag, or put it under me unzipped if it's not quite so cold.
i have a thin fleecy throw inside with me, and others on top.
i kind of become like the filling in a pie.
the sleeping bag acts like pastry base.
each to their own.