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To desperately ask…Do you wash….

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hejsl · 03/09/2024 09:44

Duvet cover and bottom sheet together or separately?!

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ComeTheFckOnBridget · 04/09/2024 06:08

Bjorkdidit · 04/09/2024 04:41

It really isn't. You've clearly never experienced a cat with a chewing fetish.

We've got one who used to chew anything rubbery, thankfully he appears to have grown out of it.

I use Hickies laces in my trainers which are £££s and he's bitten through a good few quids worth of those.

Plus quite a few phone charger cables and the Christmas tree lights. Thankfully he stuck to low voltage cables.

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Guilty as charged. Unless my fingers count

Bjorkdidit · 04/09/2024 04:41

ComeTheFckOnBridget · 03/09/2024 18:44

That's adorable

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It really isn't. You've clearly never experienced a cat with a chewing fetish.

We've got one who used to chew anything rubbery, thankfully he appears to have grown out of it.

I use Hickies laces in my trainers which are £££s and he's bitten through a good few quids worth of those.

Plus quite a few phone charger cables and the Christmas tree lights. Thankfully he stuck to low voltage cables.

Mt61 · 03/09/2024 23:43

GLC789 · 03/09/2024 10:33

Together. But I always do the poppers/buttons up on the duvet cover before putting it in.. That stops all the rest of the wash infuriatingly getting stuck inside the duvet cover 😂😂😂.

I bought all white bedding too so it's easy one white wash and happy days! X

Me too, fasten the buttons

Mt61 · 03/09/2024 23:41

Mine are all white, so together & an odd white t- shirt thrown in

Makingchocolatecake · 03/09/2024 22:36

We wash everything together on 30, all colours etc except new jeans etc

ComeTheFckOnBridget · 03/09/2024 18:44

DoAWheelie · 03/09/2024 18:30

Cat chewed off the buttons, he's a lil git and has a button fetish. I don't buy any clothes with buttons anymore.

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That's adorable

DoAWheelie · 03/09/2024 18:30

CaptainMyCaptain · 03/09/2024 15:38

That won't happen if you button up the duvet cover.

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Cat chewed off the buttons, he's a lil git and has a button fetish. I don't buy any clothes with buttons anymore.

Hedgerow2 · 03/09/2024 15:40

I wash duvet cover on its own. Sheet and pillow cases in a separate wash. I just feel they get a better wash like that.

CaptainMyCaptain · 03/09/2024 15:38

DoAWheelie · 03/09/2024 12:52

I don't as the sheet always ends up inside the duvet case and doesn't rinse the soap out properly but I think it's because my machine is tiny. My mothers is twice the size and the few times I've done them together in her machine there was no issue.

If you are doing them together and they are not coming out covered in soap keep doing it, otherwise maybe split them.

That won't happen if you button up the duvet cover.

Theoldwoman · 03/09/2024 15:30

I wash top and bottom sheets together with the pillowcases. Doona covers separately but only because they don’t fit in the machine with the sheets.

angeldelite · 03/09/2024 15:28

Washing sheets is a boring enough chore without adding separately washed duvet covers into the mix!

The only one I washed separately is the Christmas bedding set. The fitted brushed cotton sheet is a virulent red and bleeds colour like a mofo. The alpine village scene duvet cover looks like it went through a massacre after I washed them together.

Normallynumb · 03/09/2024 15:25

I understand you might be anxious about your machine but it's what they're designed for.
If it helps look up what constitutes a load for the capacity of your machine
You won't damage your machine
I've been doing the same for over 40 years!

Normallynumb · 03/09/2024 15:13

All in together
I have a double size duvet cover, fitted sheet and 4 pillowcases in an 8kg machine
Surely that's the usual way?

mn29 · 03/09/2024 13:49

I've been washing duvet covers and sheets together for as long as I've been doing my own washing (over 20 years). No machine has ever been damaged, don't stress.

bigyellowduster · 03/09/2024 13:48

Fuck me some people get stressed about the weirdest things...

Waitingfordoggo · 03/09/2024 13:47

I wash it all together usually, unless vastly different colours. Ours is super king but we have a massive washing machine and it all fits.

Lifeomars · 03/09/2024 13:45

Sheet, duvet cover and pillow cases all go into a hot wash when I change the bed. I am flummoxed as to why you are even asking this question. Then when they are all day I store the cover, the sheet and one of the pillow cases inside the other pillow case so i have everything to hand when I change the bed again.

Blanketpolicy · 03/09/2024 13:35

hejsl · 03/09/2024 09:52

Desperate because I’ve just been told that they don’t wash properly when in together and it can also damage the machine as they get wound round together !

Sounds like the crazy advice my mum used to share. 😂

Probably because it might have been an issue with blankets in an old twin tub!

AgnesX · 03/09/2024 13:24

Separately but only because the washing machine isn't big enough (and doesn't spin properly if we try).

The "man of the house" tried it as he didn't believe me....

Getmeahobnobstat · 03/09/2024 13:23

I wash mine separately depending on the colours, but when I have washed them together, I have never worried about them getting caught up and causing damage to the machine.

My duvet cover is very thick and tangles itself easily. I have no choice but to chuck that in the washer and it’s fine. I wouldn’t worry op.

Merryhobnobs · 03/09/2024 13:18

I grew up in a Guest House and I am nearly 40 and I've lived away from home since I was 17.5.... quite honestly load the machine up... Sometimes if I am tumble drying my huge king cover it gets tangled a bit which makes it dry less effectively.

BreatheAndFocus · 03/09/2024 13:14

I was speaking to someone from Aus and they said that they always use a top sheet under the duvet cover so that they only have to wash the top sheet and bottom sheet and not the duvet cover

See, I want to know when this changed in the U.K. I’ve always used a fitted bottom sheet and a flat top sheet plus duvet and duvet cover, but over the last years there seemed to be less and less choice of flat (top) sheets and now they’re hard to get at all. But I much, much prefer them. It makes laundry easier, protects the duvet cover and duvet, and just feels nicer.

To answer your question, OP, I find my duvet covers are usually darker than my sheets so I tend to wash the cover and matching pillowcases together, and the sheets separately, but it’s not a hard or fast rule.

The best way to look after your washing machine is not overload it; use powder not liquid and not too much; give it an occasional cleaning wash (ie empty); and remove tissues, etc and keep the filter clean.

caringcarer · 03/09/2024 13:04

Duvets, sheets and pillow covers from our bed and ds bed all together on a 60 degree wash.

Rory17384949 · 03/09/2024 12:54

Together....unless you have white sheets and a dark coloured duvet cover

Bjorkdidit · 03/09/2024 12:54

Also, with our first machine, I actually weighed the volume of washing that appeared to fill the machine and found that the weight was less than the full capacity, ie we think they're full when they're not so not in danger of overloading.

I've read that as long as you can get your fist in the machine above the washing, it's not overloaded.