I'm going to buy a coverless duvet!

[Earhell]

Morning all!

I'm excited to be buying a coverless duvet for myself. The boys have one and their brilliant.

What tog should I get? I really don't think I want multiple duvets!!

@givemeasunnyday - they're microfibre.

Some of us don't want feathers. Some because it's ethically dubious, some because we have allergies.

The repeated eeugh polyester! posts on this thread are beginning to look kind of pathetic.

But how is it easier to change a duvet cover (take cover off, wash it, dry it, put cover back on - always a faff - and then make bed) easier than washing a cover less duvet (wash, dry, make bed)? That's before you consider if, and how much, you should wash the diver inside the cover.

I bet it takes under a minute to pull off a kingsize duvet cover and I'd say three minutes to put it back on.

*This thread has to be a wind up.

People are prepared to fork out for coverless duvets, shove them in the washing machine one at a time, then tumble dry them all because they can't be arsed to take the covers off? Jesus wept.*

This is what I think, I can't see how it's easier at all. It feels like a step backwards to eiderdowns and you just know someone is going to invent covers for coverless duvets so you don't have to wash your coverless duvet.

I like mine from night owl, had it about 2 years. I'm quite tall and a bit wriggly in bed, and found that I kept getting my toes caught in the duvet cover and pulling the buttons off trying to untangle them 😂😂.

I also have mobility issues and struggle to put covers on standard duvet. So a godsend for me.

It's just me though and I rarely eat/drink in bed. Don't have periods or nosebleeds, so I only wash it once a month. 10.5 double easily fits in our washer dryer.

I can fit DD's single duvet in a washing machine but can't imagine getting a superking in there. Are they much thinner than nomal duvets, and if so are they warm?

I dont understand how people are saying that things dry so quickly hung up. I can understand man made fibres but cotton, linen etc take longer to dry than man made fibres, I find whether hanging in the house or on the line, things dont dry as quicky as people are claiming here.

Don't they look manky after a while

Just coming back to my thread. I'm a little shocked at the strength of feeling against coverless duvets.

There are many reasons why people may find coverless duvets easier.

In my house I have a disabled child. He, for some reason, carries his duvet with him everywhere. He spills drinks on it, urinates on it. It's gross. But it does mean I can take it off him at 3pm if needed, put it in the machine for an hour, hang it on the bannister and have it ready for bed time.

Also being autistic sometimes the mental ability to do something isn't there. I can strip the beds easily. But somewhere along the line my ability to make those beds just stops. I no longer have that ability. Genuinely.

My son needs 24/7 supervision. Being able to save those few minutes by not doing their duvet covers really helps.

My DH is dyslexic and dyspraxic. When we first got together he was trying to be "useful" 24/7 and his vailliant attempts at doing duvet covers, even single ones, was hilarious. I observed him for weeks and weeks trying to do these duvet covers and he never developed the ability.

These are my reasons. My two boys have single ones. I'd like a king size one. They don't get washed that often to be honest. But then I'm not a weekly bedding wash kind of a person.

My question was what tog should I get?

Sorry that so many people have judged you OP

bit back to your original question. I’d say 10.5 top. Dd has a lighter weight one and apart ftom the height of Summer I think it’s too light. 10.5 is just right.

The Night Owl ones were on sale at the fine bedding company website 2 days ago, so a king size 4.5 tog one was £48. They gave sales every so often.

My question was what tog should I get

Our beds all have 4.5 tog ones
We have a winter 105 tog one for me and dh, use when it starts to get a fair bit colder.
Dd doesn't like to be too warm so prefers just to have the light one.
For the spare guests beds there are blankets as well if need be, but both spare rooms get very warm.

@Comefromaway funnily enough I don't feel judged at all. Maybe I am being judged. I measure my life by my own yard stick and am not absorbing the bafflement that some apparently are feeling. I just didn't realise there was such a strength of feeling against them.

For what it's worth I'm currently sleeping with a normal single duvet....without a cover. 😂

If he's in halls then washing machines are really expensive to use so a duvet and cover would be cheaper.

If I wasn't so hot and menopausal OP I'd get one too. I like the idea. Maybe one for the spare room?

Just make sure your washing machine and dryer are big enough for the king size. My 9kg machine doesn't wash my king size night owl coverless duvet properly at all. The blurb says a minimum 10kg machine is needed.

The singles are brilliant but I regret my big one.

I bought one last winter and used it on top of my normal duvet. I like it. It's cotton not polyester, though the inner is polyester but so are all my normal duvets because I'm allergic to feathers.

I have, however, lost it though. Looked for it the other day - no idea where it is. Answers on a post card please.

Oh, also glad to know I'm not the only one who puts my feet inside the cover and pops the buttons off, or who simply cannot put the duvet cover on, the number of times I've slept in a literally stripped bed because I've lost the ability to do this chore is incredible.

I've washed all my duvets this week's, the 10.5tog king fits in the washing machine.

@Earhell I'd got for 4.5. You can always add earth with blankets or another duvet on top if you need it

I love mine. I have a waffle king size. I just gave the same one which I think is 10.5 all year.

It's lovely when it's been lined dried (couple of hours when it's decent weather) it feels lovely and fresh.

Its so quick, the kids have them. We have a super king bed otherwise we would too. You are supposed to have a flat sheet under the duvet so you wash that more regularly than the duvet but the duvets are made to dry quickly, they seem to dry quicker than normal duvet covers actually. The doubles fit in my dryer also.

We got them from Amazon, not that expensive either so got 2 each for the kids.

Oh theirs are 10.5 tog, they don't seem mega hot or anything, they have used theirs all year.

@RoyKentFanclub no mine has a slub to it.
@MairzyDoats you could still put a cover on these too, but I have to say changing the duvet cover is one of my most hated jobs, so when I saw these mentioned on WIWIKAU I thought I'd try one out. It's easier to wash than taking the duvet cover off and putting another on (plus I am not going to bother taking a feather duvet to be washed at a laundrette).
Colours could be better though for sure - but I still have my covers so could always put one on if bored.

I thought coverless duvets would change my life but ... they didn't.

I bought Night Owl ones for me and DCs but after the initial 'wow! These are great' wore off none of us liked them. We got 4.5 tog and although all of our duvets were also 4.5 tog the Coverless duvets felt really unsubstantial. They are also shiny and slippery. The threads pull really easily and the aren't very attractive (the website makes them look all luxurious and billowy but in real life they're flat and lifeless. You can't 'shake' them plump in the way you can with a duvet.

I changed back to my 4.5 tog duvet and I realised the things I missed most about it was the crisp, cleanness of a fresh duvet cover but more than that was the weight. I realised I prefer a bit of weight to my covers and so do the DC. My sleep has improved by changing back to my duvet so we're all back to duvets and we'll keep the Coverless things for an extra layer on cold nights.

Well I wouldn't want microfibre either. My summer duvet is wool, and I also used to have one made of cotton. Sorry, but I don't like man-made fibres, I don't see what is so pathetic about having a horror of polyester. As for ethically dubious - have you never seen what happens when minute bits of plastic end up in the oceans?

@Earhell mine's a 10.5 and I use it year round, unless it's exceptionally hot in which case I just have a sheet over me.
I don't find it shiny or slippery at all.

That's fine you don't like man made fibres for you @givemeasunnyday

But there's nothing yucky about them.

As for them ending up in the ocean, the filling is made from recycled PET bottles. Better to reuse and recycle our waste products, no?