To desperately ask…Do you wash….

[hejsl]

Duvet cover and bottom sheet together or separately?!

Each bed set (duvet cover / bottom sheet / pillow cases) goes in as its own wash. I don’t generally mix clothes and bedding (just habit more than anything). I think older washing machines maybe had less capacity? As my dm always split a double or king size set into two loads.

Separately because white bottom sheet and dark duvet cover, but they are changed at the same time - though occasionally the bottom sheet is changed more often because of flooding peri period. But I have enough spares to deal with this without immediate laundry (or at least without immediate drying; I try not to let stains set.)

If everything was the same colour, I'd chuck them all in together. I've not heard about things knotting up together - the only times I've had problems like that has been with things like tights and dressing gown belts, and thry were easy to pull apart.

Unless you're actually experiencing issues with things coming out unwashed, I'd just carry on.

It depends. I often use a navy sheet with a pale coloured duvet cover, so would wash them separately, but if everything is a similar colour, I wash them together.

You need to close the duvet cover buttons so the sheet doesn’t end up in a ball inside it. Still won’t damage the machine though… that’s literally what the machine has been designed for.

Yes, of course I wash!

Depends on colour. We have a great 11kg machine though, if you have a little crap 7kg machine and a king size duvet cover then I guess that might cause issues.

Depends on the size of the machine surely?

And usually cover/pillow cases/sheet together, unless we've been using the dark cover/pillow cases, then they go separately to the cream sheet.

Not quite sure why it's so urgent today though @hejsl as presumably your machine is still ok even if you're 'supposed' to do it separately?

I used to wash them together but have found the sheet doesn't always wash properly so now I wash the duvet cover and pillow cases together and the bottom sheet on its own. They are king size and despite my machine being a large capacity drum it doesn't seem to wash them well when together.

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

Together at 60 degrees, they bundle up a bit when the drum tumbles but as long as the soap distributes in the water I figure the water will penetrate the fabric enough for cleaning & rinsing.

A launderette man once advised me to zig zag large items like duvets into the drum rather than bundle them in as it helps to prevent them rolling into a ball during the cycle. Same for tumble dryers.

I'm too invested in this subject.

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Love a laundry thread lol

I wash all my bedding together (except for silk pillowcases) because they're all cotton or linen and all white.

I would only wash a duvet cover separately if it's colour didn't match the sheet or if it couldn't go on a hot wash.

Separately for double bed sheets, together for single.

The duvet covers are heavy cotton so it would be a squeeze to fit them all in my machine at one time. They definitely wouldn't wash properly if they were too tightly packed.

YABVU for this post.

Same here, but I do sheet and pillow case together and duvet cover on its own!

Unless bedding is actually soiled I can't see hygiene being an issue anyway. If an item was soiled I'd wash it separately.

Duvet cover and pillowcase in one wash, bottom sheets in a different wash but only because I separate whites (the sheets) and colours (the duvet set).

Just shove them all in together unless they are very different colours. Whoever told you that is spouting nonsense.

A super king, bottom sheet and pillowcases all go in together. Plus maybe e.g. the odd hand towel. And I don’t have an extra large capacity machine.

Together. Why the hell not? Just fasten up the duvet cover so that other items don't end up inside it and unbalance the drum.

Someone has been talking a load of bollocks to you.

Wash them together, dry them separately as they get balled up and don't dry properly

Usually, separate. The sheet is white and the duvet cover is coloured.

However, after a few uses I usually bung them in together - or if I'm rage cleaning/distracted it happens too. Never heard that about them breaking the machine, but I have heard if you over fill it stuff doesn't clean as well as it should

I have washed them together pretty much all my adult life and they have never been ruined and never damaged the machine...

Agree although i took it to reflect that she’s watching them go round waiting to see if the machine goes kaput.

How long have you been using the machine?

Your washing machine should come with a handbook telling you how much load it takes.

Ours takes 10kgs which is far more than a king size duvet cover and a sheet.

Usually I do the cover, sheet and pillow cases.