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?

Agree

We have wool duvets too, love them, ours has never bunched up either.

Some people have no choice.

I'm constantly washing because my son is incontinent and coverless duvets make it that bit easier for me. Also have a dryer for that reason.

You aren't me. Your experience is not my experience.

I responded to a poster who said natural fillings never bunch and they DO for at least 2 people, me and my DH.

Backs away slowly.....

How is it a con? The selling point is that they easily wash and dry. OP obviously has some combination which doesn’t, but numerous people on here have confirmed that theirs do exactly that.

I got ours due to a child with violent reflux who vomited every night for 3 years. Made a huge difference to the ease of changing the bed. Can be washed, dried and back on the bed within a few hours.

Which one do you have? Size, tog and make?

@twiddleit they certain aren't eiderdowns. They were, of course, called that and used the way you describe because they were full of the down from eider ducks. So they couldn't be washed all the time.

You can use a duvet that way as well, of course, but so many people are using them with animals sleeping on their bed and kids puking on them that most people wouldn't leave them months without washing them.

And their key feature is that they have been designed for regular machine washing and quick drying. So a different name seems quite reasonable to me.

Yes, already said in a PP they’re made from recycled bottles - so sleeping under a load of waste plastic basically, what a con

Well it's better than it ending up in landfill or the ocean.

@helpfulperson so…sleeping under the plastic waste is our only alternative ? No we shouldn’t have to tolerate that. Do you sleep under plastic waste ? It needs to be dealt with

I sleep under completely cleaned recycled plastic and many of my clothes are made of the same thing. I think you'd be horrified if you knew what recycled materials you were drinking 😂🤣😂

@Imdunfer sadly, I probably wouldn’t ! I do have a bottle carrier bag made of this stuff, I agree it’s good to recycle it, but that’s the reason they wash and dry so quickly. i was looking at some online earlier they had microfibre cover and recycled bottle filling it sounds ghastly to me as ‘fabric’ for bedding. There must be so much static and it’s not breathable. So not for me, but lots of people others seem to like them though.

If you live on your own and have limited mobility it takes a lot longer than that.

I've got 2 lightweight 4.5 coverless duvets. They're warm enough for me unless it's exceptionally cold, in which case I put a blanket on top. They go in the washing machine and dry very quickly.