To think coverless duvets are pointless?

[Moortown]

I hate changing duvet covers so I thought I’d treat myself to a machine washable coverless duvet. I went for one made by silentnight. It’s king size.

It needed to be washed today, so I tried to put it in the machine. I couldn’t even get half of it in, so ended up having to drive 7 miles to the nearest launderette, paying nearly £20 to wash and dry it, the whole exercise taking over 2 hours of my day. It would have been a lot easier to just put a duvet cover on!

It’s a 10.5 tog one, so silly me just assumed that it would fit in the machine as my regular duvet is also 10.5 tog and fits in easily. So it can be done, but for whatever reason they decided to make these ‘washable’ ones far too big to fit into anything except a giant washing machine, that no regular household possesses.

I’m sending it back as it’s not fit for purpose.

AIBU to think this is a major design flaw?

I love mine. They all fit in the washing machine (think they are silent night?). I have mobility issues in my wrists/hands and they’ve been brilliant for me. I used to want to cry every time I had to change the cover!

My sister uses flat sheets with them. Kind of defeats the purpose a bit, but i guess it easier to wash a sheet over a duvet.(she does wash the duvets too, but not every week.)

And you're sending it back to the shop?? 🤮

Nope. We have two. Both are superking and both fit in my 9kg washer dryer. It’s not a hardship to wash it at all. In fact it’s so easy, and I’m so glad I bought them! Far less stress and when I pop it on before work in the morning, it’s washed and dried by the time I get home from work. So I don’t really NEED the second. But they’re different togs so that’s nice for winter/summer.

I can fit my summer king coverless duvet in my 10kg, it didn't do the 10.5 tog one very well so I got rid, and just bought another summer one to double up. tbh I've been warm in bed even under a single summer one at the moment because of the heating being on.

30 seconds? More like 30 minutes of heaving it on the bannister and repeatedly running up and down the stairs to each end, finding the magnet for the duvet pins and trying not to stab yourself with them (solution for the duvet creeping one way and the duvet cover going the other way in the night)

Going old school with sheets, blankets and a coverless duvet/ eiderdown is much easier than wresting with faffy duvet covers. 30 seconds doesn't even cover doing the buttons.

I've got a 10.5 tog one and it fits in my 10kg washing machine with room to spare. What size machine do you have?

Only my kids have them (they're on high rise beds and I just found it easier) and they're dry in 3 hours maximum hanging on the banister too! Game changer.

Really? I don’t get the drama about putting covers on quilts. It’s not difficult.
Whats this wandering duvet business? Never happened to me.

How dies the height of the bed affect putting a duvet cover on?

@cardibach exactly. Winter Duvet gets washed when it’s summer, covers washed EASILY weekly. 🥜🌰🥜🌰

Just put a cover on. What's the point in sending a used and washed duvet back?

It's not difficult for you.

You have never had a wandering duvet.

Your post is so dismissive of the experiences that I and other people have explained above that I wonder if you even realise you aren't the only person using duvets.

You need a decent sized washing machine. Mine go in fine.

if they wash and dry so quickly aren’t they synthetic? Especially since perimenopause I hate sleeping in synthetics, so sweaty. I wear cotton PJs, linen sheets, and have a down duvet. I can’t imagine sleeping under layers of polyester or nylon. But that’s probably just me

I can't fit my 10.5 tog double one in the washing machine. Today I wish I could - cat had managed to stain it probably a few days ago and I didn't see it until I changed the cover today. So on a whim I put the stained bit in a basin in the bath tub to soak the area. That worked well, but of course the water always spreads out through the fabric, and I had to rinse it which made probably a quarter of it pretty wet. As by then it was 5 pm so I now have it over the airer in the kitchen, dripping onto several towels. Sigh. Am running the dehumidifier so hopefully will dry out overnight. Meanwhile will use a single one tonight! DP away, just as well! But no it won't fit in the washing machine.

I use the burrito method as a wheelchair user to manage a superking.

I considered coverless but I’d put a cover on it keep it clean so it’d be pointless for me.

Aren’t they all horribly synthetic? I don’t like nylon etc next to my skin.

Mines a night owl one, fits in my machine perfectly and is dry within hours just hanging over a door! I absolutely hate changing bedding so it’s perfect for us, my kids have them too now

Maybe my arm span needs to be a metre wider so I can reach more than one corner at a time, but I'd look like a gorilla. Draping it over the bannister to give some height advantage and letting it hang with gravity helps but it's still bloody faffy to get all the corners in the right place and everything hanging straight, and involves several trips up and down the stairs to align it and shake it out evenly before lugging it back to the bedroom.

It's just not easy grappling around with something significantly longer and wider than myself and I don't know how people without Mr Tickle arms apparently do it so easily. We have a large one so that there's enough duvet for both of us squirming around in our sleep and DH is tall so it's a super-king on a king size bed. We upgraded to super-kings when kings were struggling to cover the extra mass of my bumps in pregnancy and it was getting very draughty around the edges.
A double would still be nearly half a metre wider than my arm span anyway.

The DCs' singles are easier, but that's still somewhere between 5-10 mins apiece. I can get away with flapping around on the divan bed to create enough height which is easier, but still have to use the bannister to deal with the covers for the high sleeper because of reduced headroom to manouver up there. (Then there's the additional joys of cuddly toy arranging and climbing the ladder with duvet over my shoulder)

It's one of my least favourite household chores, and I'd rather scrub a toilet.

Not dismissive. Puzzled. Without disabilities (my first post on t(e thread mentions a friend in that situation) quilts are easy - no running up and downstairs required. And I don’t understand how a quilt could move inside the cover once it’s in. They fit quite snugly. They wander off the bed at will, but inside the cover? I can’t see how.

You don’t need to reach more than one corner at a time. Single person, king duvet. Lay the duvet on the bed, wrinkled down to the bottom. Put the cover flat on the bed . Feed one corner of the duvet through to the top corner of the cover. Pull the cover down as far as possible. Go round the bed. Repeat with the other side. Pull the cover down. Lift the duvet and pull the middle of the cover down. Tuck the bottom corners into the duvet, then pull the cover so it is in line with the duvet all across. Hold top and bottom of duvet cover and duvet itself as far apart as is comfortable and flick to straighten everything out. Fasten buttons/poppers/whatever.
Sounds a faff, but takes about 2 mins.

My son is incontinent and coverless duvets definitely make my life easier.

I have kings, 10.5 tog and the winter ones. They fit fine in my 7kg washing machine. Flung over the banister they are dry in an afternoon.

I have dyspraxia and these things are absolute life savers. I wash mine every week. Used to be fortnightly but now I have a live in boyfriend and we shag a lot! Lol.

I have them but have farmed them out to the kids and husband (he sleeps in the spare room the snoring twitchy gorgeous beast) because they are too sweaty for me. I have no issues with washing or drying tho