A cheaper way to clean duvets?

[OneLittleBabyTerror]

I just dropped off my duvet at the dry cleaners for a wash. It costs £20 to wash a double! We wash it once a year. But really it's twice, once for the winter one, and again for the summer one. I don't used to look at the price of things, but now with DD, I'm beginning to get skint.

How do you ladies wash your duvets? And how often? I just can't believe everyone pays £40 a year to wash a duvet! And probably double that when DD moves on from her grobags.

I usually stick mine into our local laundrette to be done on a service wash. Iirc the last one was £48 for 2 db and 4 sb (3 were feather as well). I usually send them in the morning we go away for hols (week each Easter) and they are ready for collection when we get back.

are you supposed to wash them......oops! I must have saved a fortune then. We do replace them every so often.

I use my own washing machine ...

All fine so far

I take them to the laundrette - for a kingsize duvet a wash in the big machine is about £6, and I spent about £1.60 on tumble drying it there too. Just take a book to read :)

FWIW, I only wash them if one of the DC has been sick/ weed on it

I do singles in the washing machine

double ones don't fit so they don't get washed very often

it's cheaper to buy a new one

I have just decided to replace our old queen size duvet with 2 singles as I can't wash it, and I even find it difficult to wrestle it onto the clothesline to be aired! We have dust mite allergies and I'm sure duvets harbor them in the millions. Ugh.

I have a big washing machine, it probably overloads it, but does seem to work.

Large drum washing machine I have am 8kg machine and get my duvet in there then out on the liine on a sunny day

We invested in panel duvets from here when DS moved to a big bed (his is a double so any accidents were a big problem). With these, you can just remove the panels one at a time and wash them. I realise you might not want to swap your current duvets now, but they could be handy for when your DD needs to upgrade.

I dry-cleaned mine recently after many a couple of years ; I was so shocked at the price, I should have just bought a new one.

Reminds self to wash DS's duvet for the first time

It's good to know you can probably fit a single in the machine. I'm not sure how big ours is, but it's definitely not big enough for the double. And we don't have a single to wash yet since DD is using a grobag still.

TheFoosa indeed the price shocked me. I looked on John Lewis website, and their cheapest is only £60, for a double 4.5+9 tog. An anti-allergy one is £100. But I just can't bring myself to chuck away a perfectly good duvet .

what a brilliant idea having duvets split into panels

shame they are £££ but probably a good investment

Lemon the panel duvets are indeed a brilliant idea. Luckily DD will be going to a single.

we take them to the laundrette after hayfever season.
costs about a tenner for 2 single ones, washing and drying.