So what do you do when someone's been sick on a duvet?

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Instructions on said duvet were to only machine wash in 9kg drum or larger. Mine is 7kg, from memory.

Second option was wash at cleaners. There are no self-service places around here, so I phoned a dry cleaners - yes they had a large capacity washing machine, and it would cost £19

So I opted to bin and replace - £11 from Amazon.

Should I just have washed it in the sink somehow?

I'd shove it in the washing machine. I'm brutal with mine.

Since you've bought another one anyway, you could have shoved the old one in your machine to see and sent the new one back if the old one came out ok.

I stick it in the washing machine and it seems to survive.

What you've got to watch is over-stuffing a down duvet into a tuble drier. The smell of burning feathers is hard to eradicate...

tumble typo sorry!

Washing machine - if yours is too small there must be a launderette near you. I wash a huge Laura Ashley rug in one of their washing machines for £4 every 3 months.

I would have bought a new one

bin it

you could have sloshed it around in the bath.

There might be a laundrette within £5 petrol of you.

I take it to our local laundrette. Single duvet is £7 to wash/dry and it's same day service (double is £10).

linerunner, when tumbling feather pillows/duvets etc you must throw in a couple of tennis balls. They agitate the feathers, allowing them to all dry. In my experience, its the smell of wet feathers thats fowl rather than scorched feathers.

Smack the drunken git for hurling all over the bed and me, then make him wash it. (personal experience)

I've just bought a duvet protector from hippychick because I was fed up of washing DCs' duvets.

If I could have replaced for £11 - I would have binned it. The DC had cheap ones for that very reason. remembers the sick over when a friend developed a tummy bug and pebble dashed, carpets, interlined curtains, down duvet and armchair It only cost £400 to have everything cleaned and the father said "oh yes, the whole family has had that over the last ten days". So why send him for a sleepover I wondered.

This is a useful thread, not least because I'm not the only with vomit-based horror memories, married.

line-runner I had to don rubber gloves and scrape it off with a large serving spoon. It didn't even belong to my own child. [ffoul emoticon]. It must have been more than 10 years ago now - and I still remember it in slow motion.

married I had to chuck DS's cabin bed out, and the carpet.

One day when I am strong enough (only been 4 years) I might start a vomit-covered bedroom thread WWYD type thing.

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Happy Christmas. We could rewrite Noel, Noel as Noro Noro.

It's in the past - thank God - I just put a little rug over the professionally cleaned stain. Might replace the carpet soon though

Thanks for the replies (sorry I disappeared for so long - end of the world etc )

No do-it-yourself-laundrette in driving distance that I have been able to track down (have asked around, no joy). Only dry cleaners who cost a bomb, even though they don't dry clean it, just put it in a large-drum washing machine (grrrrrrrr).

Re: putting it in my washing machine - my concern was for the washing machine, that it could break if overloaded. I'd be kicking myself then.

I guess my options for the next time are (1) handwash in bath (2) replace or (3) buy a duvet protector. Unless neither of my children are ever again going to be sick in their beds

Thanks all!