Coverless duvets

I have four doubles. They are all quite thin so at this time of year I have two on my bed plus a large washable fleece blanket. I usually wash one duvet with the bottom sheet and pillowcases and one with one of the blankets and they fit in quite easily.

I did try using a thicker, uncovered duvet over a flat sheet and then covered by a bedspread but I find the above easier to manage.

Ive always used a top sheet and then a king size throw over the duvet.

My DD had a coverless duvet for my grandson, I slept with this duvet once when visiting I really didn’t like the nylony feel to it. It did wash and dry very well though.

I have a standard single duvet and it is so much easier to launder the cover and replace it and I really like the feel of cotton.

My DH has a king size duvet and cover and we have to do this together it is a real faff.

I think if you share a bed two single duvets with a bedspread over the top would ease the laundering problems.

Fairislecable

My DD had a coverless duvet for my grandson, I slept with this duvet once when visiting I really didn’t like the nylony feel to it. It did wash and dry very well though.

I have a standard single duvet and it is so much easier to launder the cover and replace it and I really like the feel of cotton.

My DH has a king size duvet and cover and we have to do this together it is a real faff.

I think if you share a bed two single duvets with a bedspread over the top would ease the laundering problems.

I have often changed a superking duvet cover on my own, with the aid of 4 giant plastic clothes pegs I found on Amazon- the sort people use on the beach to stop their towels blowing away.

You just feed one corner into one bottom corner of the cover, secure with peg, repeat the other side. Then repeat with top corners.
Give a really good shake, do up poppers or buttons, shake again, done.

They are just as warm as a duvet in a light cover, and much easier to use.

A 4.5 tog coverless duvet can be washed in a 7kg washing machine, (so can my 10.5 double), but in general, a 10.5 tog double or king size is too bulky for a 7kg machine and needs a 10kg one, so in winter two of you would be better each using a warm single on your kingsize bed instead - my daughter and son-in-law don't even use coverless duvets but have gone over to single conventional ones anyway, for their convenience.

They dry remarkably quickly, mine is back on the bed the same day it is washed.

Night Lark care instructions say "Home wash at 40°C in a standard UK washing machine (7kg). Note, 10.5 Tog Double and King sizes require a large capacity washing machine (10kg). Tumble dry until thoroughly dry. Do not bleach or dry clean."

Fairislecable My coverless duvets (one summer and one winter) came from Night Owl, and have a waffle cotton top surface and a lovely smooth cotton lining.

My one is lovely. Silky soft and so light. Unfortunately I'm finding it's just not warm enough for current weather so have put it away till spring. I do love it though.

I gave them up and charity shopped them ... they were not warm enough and were too lightweight as I rather like the feel of being wedged or weighted down ,,, I went back to a 13 tog duvet with a cover ...

I agree with Elegran
I am considering getting 2 singles...one each, which would make things even simpler.

There is a very simple and easy way to get any size duvet in its relevant cover.
Lay the inside out cover on the bed, lay the duvet over the top.
Starting from the closed end of the duvet, roll them together like a sausage roll, do this evenly until you get to the open end.
Then poke the sausage through the opening of the duvet, this is a bit of a squeeze but once both corners are through it gets easier.
Finally unroll the whole thing and voila! Duvet in its cover!

If you don’t understand this just google it……..there’s a video on YouTube.

Jane43

Just finished changing the bed linen and duvet cover with DH, both of us struggling with bad backs and DH with arthritic fingers. I am wondering if life would be easier with a coverless duvet. If anybody has one could I have some feedback, my main concern is laundering it, would a king size fit into a washing machine or do they have to be taken to a launderette which would be a disadvantage to us? Also are they as warm as a duvet? Thanks in anticipation.

There have been a couple of threads on GN seeking advice and recommendations on coverless duvets, which you might find helpful Jane.

I'm in the post-Christmas phase of changing the beds, and having coverless duvets on all of them is a game-changer. I have a washer-dryer, so the drum is too small to dry them in that, so I give them an extra spin and throw them over a clothes horse. It only takes an hour or two to be bed ready, and if I need to speed things up I use the heated airer.

I have 10.5 tog ones with coverlets over them in winter. I would never go back to changeable duvet covers.

Thank you for all the comments. Perhaps a coverless duvet might be a solution for the warmer months and I will look on You Tube for easier ways of putting the new duvet cover on.