To desperately ask…Do you wash….

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Duvet cover and bottom sheet together or separately?!

Honestly, you really need to get out more if this is a desperate issue that you're giving so much attention to on a Tuesday morning.

Even if you don't have a handbook that comes with the machine, the instructions about weight/loads should be available online .

Together, at 60 degrees. No broken machine here after years of doing it!

Mine won't all fit (superking) but anything smaller I would wash all together if same/similar colours.

What a load of nonsense! I actually have my bottom sheet, pillow cases and duvet cover in the washing machine now, as I type this. Been doing it this way for nearly 40 years - no problem. As a PP said, it helps if you fasten the duvet cover at least partially so that it doesn't swallow up the rest of the things.

Always together as I change both at the same time.

What helpful person told you this and why? To make you feel you were a useless slovenly woman?

I have washed the full bedding set - bottom sheet, top sheet, duvet cover, 4 rectangular and 2 square pillows together for over 30 years and they are always clean and the machine has lasted well.

Ignore busibodies is my advice.

I try and separate my laundry into:

1. delicates and nicer clothes (lower temp, delicate setting)
2. bedding, towels and clothes I don’t care about (higher temp, cotton setting)

so yeah I’d bung the bedsheets in the same wash. I have silk pillowcases and wash them separately.

This.
I'm confused.

Actually I do bottom sheet and pillow cases every week and duvet cover every other week - but when I do the lot they go in at the same time.

I think this echoes my DM's routine really. Back in the 1960s and 70s, before the days of duvets and fitted sheets, we would have a bottom sheet, a top sheet then blankets, ordinary quilts and couterpanes. On bedding change day my DM would remove the bottom sheets and pillow cases to go in to the wash. Then the top sheet would be moved to replace the bottom sheet and a clean sheet used for the new top sheet. Hence each sheet did a week as a top sheet followed by a week as a bottom sheet.

I think common sense dictates that it depends on the capacity of your washer and the material/colour of your bedding.

Maybe the person who said this, has a smaller capacity washer? But for me, if its the same colour, fabric etc, then I put the sheets, duvet cover and pillow cases in the same wash, making sure the duvet is closed i.e. buttoned up otherwise the pillow cases end up as balls inside the duvet.

But each to their own, nothing wrong with their suggestion, it gets the washing clean but why do two washes when you can do one...just too expensive and time consuming!

Duvet cover
Bottom sheet
Pillow cases
All go in together, nothing else just the bedding.

Errrm, together. Why would you not?

If you've been putting everything in together and seen for yourself that the machine isn't damaged and the duvet and sheets are coming out clean - then clearly someone is telling you a load of rubbish.

I would say though - if you are sqishing in a superking size duvet cover, superking sheet, 4 large pillowcases and mattress and pillow protectors then they may have a point. My machine could cope with that but if yours is old and small then it might struggle.

I'd suggest the person advising you might like to buy you a bigger, better one😁

Of course together.

I change cover and sheet on the same day. I do not own only one pair, so when i change duvet cover and sheet, I put a new set and I will wash the dirty one whenever i am free...

Who told you that??
Whoever they are - ignore them!

Separate but mainly because it’s an emperor duvet so is massive plus we have a top and bottom sheet (I get super hot so can kick off the duvet and just have the sheet)

@ManchesterLu bit harsh.. I have no money so very worried about damaging the machine!

I tend to wash my sheets and pillowcasea together, often with other bits, and the duvet cover separately, alone. Mostly because the duvet cover needs tumble drying separately or it all just tangles up and takes hours.

If you're very worried and have a smaller machine you can wash together but set it to no spin and then spin them separately.

It will get more water out of them and that's probably the most aggressive part of a washing cycle.

how does it tangle up? do you fasten it before washing it...?

I find it's OK so long as I do the buttons up on the duvet cover before I put them in. If I leave the duvet cover open then sometimes the sheet will end up inside the duvet cover and it won't spin properly so everything ends up dripping wet. That might just be my cheap shitty washing machine though.

Don't worry. I know that it can thump a bit as it goes around on the 1200 rpm spin, but that's normal and the machine is designed to take it. If there was any way that it damaged the machine, we would know now after ten billion wash cycles. And the washing machine manufacturers would be telling you in the instruction manual not to wash two bulky items together. 🙏

Together, with as much of the kids bedding I can cram in too. Can't say I've ever given it much thought.

I was at uni in the 1980s and that is what they in halls too. But a lot of people, like me, had duvets by then so just changed the bottom sheets.

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.