Quilt cleaning if it won't fit in washing machine

[Badders123]

We have 3 double quilts
They need washing but we can't afford to dry clean them all (and no where local that does dry cleaning anyway)
Is stomping on them in the bath a reasonable method?
Using hand wash?

It's got to be a laundrette service wash I fear.

Or a do it yourself laundrette wash which is cheaper than a service wash.

Can you do them one at a time in the washing machine then take them to the laundrette to tumble dry?

No they won't fit at all
Grr

A couple of hours alone in the launderette with a book is heaven.

Make it easier by taking the duvets in a wheeled suitcase and taking a few liquor abs in a sandwich bag

A few what autocorrect?!

Should be 'liquitabs'

I had visions of me swigging out of a brown bottle!!

Ugh
Damn
Might have to dry clean one at a time

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I don't think you're supposed to dry clean quilts and duvets. The dry cleaning process involves various solvents and because quilts and duvets are bulky, they retain the solvents more than normal clothes do and you will potentially be breathing them in all night, which isn't good for you.

The launderette works quite well - commercial washing machines are usually much quicker than domestic ones (about 30 mins at my local one). The dryers take a bit longer, but on a hot sunny day you can dry it on the washing line if you have one (mine is out there as I write!). They do have to be dried completely though, to avoid mildew.

If you do go to a launderette, take lots of pound coins and fifties. My local costs £10 for the duvet washing machine and it only accepts £1 coins for the washer and fifties for the dryer.

the driers in the laundrette work out very expensive.

I'd say put it on the line until you think it is fully dry (will take at least a day) and take it back to the laundrette to be fluffed up right through. It is hard to get a thick duvet fully dry to the middle.

How big is your machine?

Mine is 7kg and fits a superking with a little persuasion. The duvet itself weighs less than 7kg and is spread evenly through the drum so I'm not worried about the mechanism. Once it has spun it takes up about 10% of the volume!

Like, you have to really ram it in but I know I'm just pushing the air out.

I think it's 6kg

Take it to a launderette. Cost me £10.

And that was a service wash with a drying included. Would have been less if Id washed it myself.

Don't dry clean them. You need to find a laundrette as they have large machines that are capable of washing large items like duvets.

With the nice weather, could you put them on the washing line, spray with soapy water from a bottle, then hosepipe it through? If they're synthetic duvets, they should drip dry in a day especially if it's breezy.

BUT I think making a trip with all 3 duvets to a laundrette would be worth the effort.

Right...need to find a launderette! I won't take booze 😀
Thanks everyone

I read thread title as QUIT cleaning if it won't fit in machine.

Which is also acceptable, I think

Depending on the quality, they're not that expensive to buy.

Well, I reckon with a bit of elbow grease you'd get a double in a 6kg machine, but it will definitely be easier in a launderette top-loader.

They are John Lewis ones and are lovely :)
They are synthetic though I'm sure.

Synthetic means you can use biological washing powder. If feather, must use non-bio. Bio eats feathers.

Thing about stuffing a duvet into a too- small washer is that (a) it won't wash it very well and (b) it won't do your washing machine much good. So it's likely to be false economy to try it.

Launderette - use one of the huge machines there. Then take it home and dry it over a hedge or a fence or something. If feather, the feathers will dry into clumps and then all you need to do is take it back to the launderette for a quick tumble in the drier to refluff it. If synthetic, then all fine over the hedge.