Think that coverless duvets are actually more faff?

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Bought one DC a coverless duvet a few months back. Yes, it's totally life-changing in no more changing the duvet cover. But then washing the whole thing is actually a huge faff, especially now it's going to have to go into the tumbler rather than drying outside.

I was planning to get them for the whole family, but not sure now. Does anyone who has them for everyone find them less faff overall? Or are they actually more work than washing and changing duvet covers?

There's five of us so would be a lot of duvet washing!

How are they different from just a duvet with no cover on?
I washed my single 7.5 tog duvet tonight and it dried over the door in a few hours.

ooo I remember the dressing gown on top of all the bedding when it was really cold.

I switched to a coverless duvet because having cancer related chronic fatigue plus pain in my hands made it difficult for me to change my duvet cover. It's a big help to me. Not sure I would have got one if not for my circumstances though. I'm also single with no dependant kids so it's only one duvet to think about

The one I bought got so creased when I washed it that it looked awful back on the bed. It was also not a very nice material and didn’t feel anything like as good as a freshly washed and dried cover even though I can never find one that fits and stays in place properly.

Just adding the link for the Night Lark coverless bedding in case anyone wants to check them out www.finebedding.co.uk/pages/night-lark-coverless-duvet

They are ubiquitous where I am in the ME! But y'know, free & reliable sunshine so you just wash them & fling them over a line.

I have a few traditional duvet covers & they just get used with a thin blanket inside. My housekeeper is utterly baffled by the whole concept mind you.

I use giant plastic clothes pegs, the kind people use to stop beach towels blowing away. Around £3.50 on Amazon IIRC. They make it easy for me to change a super-king cover on my own.

Right. When ‘continental quilts’ first appeared you would have a bottom sheet, top sheet then duvet. It was really treated as an eiderdown.

why don’t people do this any more? You would rarely need to change the duvet cover, just wash two sheets.

I like changing my duvet covers! It gives the whole room a new 'look' - it's a bit like putting different cushions on the sofa. If I fancy a more colourful look I put on my jazzy cover or if I want that 'cohesive, colour-drenched look' then I put my sage green one that matches the walls.

Doesn't it get boring, always having the same cover? And I remember my mum washing the wool blankets in the bath - that's how we knew it was summer.

I do the same, in the winter it’s very cosy, and in the summer you can kick the duvet off and just lay under the sheet. It saves massively on washing the bloody duvet cover, because you’re not in contact with it, so it doesn’t get manky.

I can’t see the benefit for us as a family.

At the moment I can fit all the sheets and duvet covers into one washing machine load - coverless duvets would likely need 3 separate loads - and I would still have to wash the sheets and pillowcases anyway, so 4 loads.

Most of them seem to be synthetic fabric which I can’t sleep well under, I much prefer feather duvet and crisp 100% cotton covers.

Putting on a new duvet cover is a less than five minute job once a week, so I don’t feel it’s particularly a chore. It takes me longer to get dressed myself! DH and do it together, it’s quick and easy, Dc do their own.

Mine dries hanging over the bannister in a few hours. Wash in the morning and it’s dry before bedtime, even in winter.

I don’t find it difficult to change my duvet cover 5 minutes I have quite a few duvet covers and sadly I use them in rotation I store a duvet cover and sheet in the pillowcase so easy to get out.

I have bought this for my 5yr old and it's brilliant. His nappy can't hold it all in at night so I have to change his bed every single day and it's exhausting. I was using a waterproof quilt protector and then putting that into a duvet cover (effectively having to put the quilt into a cover twice). This is Soo much less effort. I have a single 10.5 tog for him and it fits in the washing machine and drys really fast. I hang it over a heated airer if it's already on as drying other stuff or just over the bannister if not and still dries fast.
Now I can just flick it onto his bed instead of wrestling those quilt corners into a waterproof quilt cover and then a normal duvet cover.
I bought mine from Online Home Stores and only cost about £15.