Any tips for washing my king size winter duvet in the bath?

[SlinkyDogg]

Cos it won't fit in our washing machine and I don't want to go to a launderette.
Just soak for a few hours in warm water and normal clothes detergent, then rinse a few times.
Squeeze as much water as I can out, put in a bin bag and drape over our two clothes lines in the garden.
Sound reasonable?

@hoopla .. she wasn't talking about the machine . She said the bath! We always washed and tumbled them and they come up lovely but you need to spin it !!

It's a polyester filling. My SK duvet fits in our standard washing machine. I'd put it in on easycare 30 deg and then spin again.

oohnicevase Oops, my bad [embarassed} I misread your post as being you can't machine wash a feather duvet.

Posters who buy a new duvet every year, I'm shocked! For the amount it costs you, you could have a luxury goose down duvet in cotton (ours is probably 6 years old now, cost something like £120 in the January sale originally (from John Lewis) and still going strong having been machine washed and dried on average 6 monthly. That would have cost me £300 in manmade fibre filled duvets with polycotton outer (which will never biodegrade either).

You don't know the luxury of a goose down until you've tried them. They warm up without making you sweaty unlike manmade fibre ones. They puff up around you. I used to not care or see what the difference could be, but since having a goosedown one, I'm a convert.