How long does a feather duvet last?

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That's it really. When should they be replaced, and can they be re-plumped?

Years and years if they are good quality. You can get them dry cleaned/laundered to freshen up.

Ours are about 10 years old and going strong, got summer and winter weight ones, each goes to the cleaners at the end of its season. I also put them on the washing line for a freshen up every now and then.

They should last forever if good quality. The cover will wear out before the filling does.

Mine is down and we have had it for twelve years. I just got my girls some 50/50 down/feather ones from Spotlight for $60.

I have my first feather duvet. It goes crossways on the guest bed as an extra layer and looks qite nice in a toning colour arranged like that. I got it when I was 13 so nearly 40 years old. The duvets on our bed are duck down and I bought them in 1988. Every summer I put them over the washing lne for a mega air and have them professionsally cleaned when we decorate - same as the pillows.

All the others are synthetic ones and the singles go through the machine - the double has a service wash.

Ours lasted for a good 20 years. Eventually the cover started to wear through at the seams, and eventually I got sick of all the feathers flying everywhere every time I changed the duvet cover.

Decades.

There are feather duvets in my parents' house that are significantly older than me and are still in better nick than a two year old synthetic duvet.

Thank you all for your replies. I'd just noticed a lack of loft with some duvets, so wondered how to plump them up. I'm lucky in having a balcony outside the main bedroom to hang out the duvets to air/collect spider webs/get shat on by birds. :o

I can't be doing with the synthetic ones as they're full of slippery stuff that makes you fall over if you step on it while changing the bedlinen.

Am researching wool-filled duvets (I should say doonas) that are very popular in Australia.

Slight thread hijack, sorry, OP - but what does everyone do with their feather duvets when they do wear out?

I've got a feather mattress topper and the cover is disintegrating. Can't give it away as feathers are escaping; it's massive and very heavy so am reluctant to bin it. What to do with it?

I wondered if anyone does a re-covering service but haven't managed to find one so far.

Ambridge - there is a company which offers a recovering service, they make made to measure sheets eg 4 ft and extra deep, they advertise in home & garden type magazines. I think they are based at a seaside town, I will try and think of the name.

www.keysbedding.co.uk/depteiderdown.html

they are in Clackton

echt I've recently changed to a wool duvet from Baavet, a company in Wales, and it is BRILLIANT.

Always, I've just seen this - thank you, thank you! I'll give them a google