Aibu to put a duvet in the washing machine?

[TheExMotherInLaw]

Yes, me and the washing machine saga again.
Went to look at washers in John Lewis this evening.
Said I wanted one with large aperture, to make it easier to get my duvet in. Got quite a lecture from the salesman about not laundering duvets. WTF?
I often wash my summer duvet, big blankets, throws etc, used to wash the kids duvets, too, cos, well, kids!
DH and I were as I've only been doing laundry for 40 years.
When we left the shop dh said 'You've got to tell your mumsthing people about this'

My JL duvet and pillows have laundry instructions on them. If that doesn't say 'I'm ok to be washed' I don't know what does! Our machine isn't big enough though so it doesn't get done very often.

It does depend on the size of the duvet and the size of the machine - single duvet I would washa t home, king size - go to the laundry. (Actually they are so cheap these days I'd probably buy another)

I put the single duvets in the machine, but not the double (as it's a large one and doesn't fit). I specifically bought machine washable duvets for the DC. What do they expect you to do, run to the dry cleaners every time your 2 year old wets the bed?

I wash duvets.
however we have all single ones so 7kg drum is fine for this.
I wash them at least once a year after hayfever season.

Yes of course we wash duvets. How else do you get cat/small child wee / nosebleed / vomit out of them???
And I tumble dry them!
I always stick a couple of tennis balls in too though

I wash my posh, down duvets, the care label says I can and my machine has a duvet cycle.

I also tumble dry them, as the care instructions that came with them told me I should.

That salesman needs a visit... which shop, what did he look like? I'm happy to coordinate the MN Intervention. Who is with me?

I will score John Lewis off my list of places to shop then. I always buy a machine with a large drum to wash duvets, blankets and sleeping bags.
In fact there is a duvet setting on some machines.
ao.com/product/wmb91233lw-beko-washing-machine-white-37729-1.aspx Is the one I had

Did he give a reason for why you shouldn't ? I wonder what he thinks it says on the care labels and on machines with a duvet setting ?

Oh he wittered about it bunching up. I was expecting him to say it was a risk of an unbalanced load, but no, it was care of the duvet. I'll still buy the washer there, tho - his stupidity doesn't affect the choice of washer.

John Lewis customer service is usually very good. I don't think he was bad enough to justify making a complaint about him, but he's not exactly been a model employee, has he?!

I remember doing them in the bath in the summer when the local laundrette closed down. Then squishing all the water out with our feet and dribbling water all through the house to get it to the outdoor airer.

Now I buy lightweight ones and layer them up so a can shove them in the washer.

JL are weird, I went into buy a vacuum cleaner and the rep told me it wasn't suitable for my house

I called the manufacturer to query this and they were not best pleased.

John Lewis should stop advertising their own duvets as machine washable then
www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-80-20-fine-european-duck-down-duvet-13-5-tog/p1901612

I wash my duvets and pillows in the washing machine. Except my beloved buckwheat pillow, which I don't think would survive!

I wash them all in the machine (9kg machine) - in fact, we often don't bother with covers these days because we just wash the whole duvet every week or so instead, and I don't have to wrestle the covers off and on (or I wash it with the cover on). They're synthetic.

I also wash feather pillows - but they take an age to dry in the tumbler with a couple of dryer balls.

I did once wash a feather duvet in the bath, but it took so long to dry that it began to smell and I had to chuck it. I make poor decisions sometimes.

Does your DH think mumsthing people might descend on John Lewis en masse bearing pitchforks and torches to sort out the guy's nonsense

My washing machine has a duvet cycle, so yes I wash duvets in it. My mil however has always been horrified by this and thinks it will break the machine or something despite me pointing out the duvet cycle setting the machine has...

My machine is also from John Lewis actually but I bought it online and didn't talk to a sales person.

I think it's because the weight load a machine will take, is the weight when wet, so Could cause damage? My king size one is more than 8kg when wet. I can't be arsed with the squeezing it in and out so I laundrette mine.

I think there's a difference between being machine washable and being machine washable in a standard sized household washing machine. The choice isn't small home washing machine or dry cleaners, it's small home washing machine or laundrette with much larger drums or dry cleaners. I choose the laundrette as my machine is standard sized and wouldn't cope with a duvet small or king sized. I could hang about for ages washing it but choose to pay for a service wash and dry

Ha, ha this brings back memories of when I decided to do a deep clean of our entire house including washing all the pillows. We have feather ones and our house smelled of wet ducks for days as we desperately tried to dry them out properly (we don't have a tumble dryer). In the end they went mouldy and we had to sadly throw them away. Never again!

There must be a huge difference in how some machines cope with them My 9 tog doubles have always fitted in the machines we have had at home, they come out quite dry, so no dripping and they fit comfortably in the now ancient tumble dryer. I don't think we ever bough an unusual machine, but maybe we were just lucky, or utterly thoughtless. But we never had a problem, nor did we ever break a machine, we've only had 3 in 30 years and the first one was 12 years old when we were given it. It broke aged 23 and the replacement was gifted to a recycling charity after 17 years.

All of which is fortunate as the nearest laundrette is 18 miles away in the middle of Studentville.

This thread reminds me of Trev and Simon pretending to run a dry cleaners (or laundry?) on Going Live:

"We dont do duvets"

I wash DS's single duvet. What else are you supposed to do if your DC manages to wee on it?

I wash mine and have just gone and checked. They all have laundry instructions. Those who dry clean, how often do yours get washed then? (Wondering if i could do it less)

I don't dry clean I go to the laundrette.