How often do you clean your duvet?

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I’ve just taken my superking duvet to the launderette for cleaning and my friend thinks I’m mad for doing so!
She has never cleaned her duvet in all the years she’s had it so I wondered how often you cleaned yours?

Once a year, when we switch from the winter duvet to the summer duvet, and vice versa. Obviously they are used with duvet covers, but I think it’s a bit grim to never wash them!

I have a wool one which according to Baavet should never be washed. They say wool doesn’t need washing. Well the cat pissed on it so I took it to the launderette and it shrank 35 cm! I’ve now purchased a washable wool duvet from the Wool Room.

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Winter duvet goes to the dry cleaners in March, when we put the summer one on.

Summer one goes to the dry cleaners in Oct/Nov depending on how cold it is.

In theory we can button them.together to make a super warm duvet but we've never done that. I guess if we did, thr summer duvet would get an extra clean each year.

I have coverless ones, so every other week. It's brilliant for my dust allergies, I'm not permanently congested anymore!

Doesn't cleaning a duvet cost about the same as buying another? We get rid of ours when it feels a bit mingung, and it becomes dog bedding for a year or so afterwards

This feels so wasteful though.

Our 8 and 4 tog diverts fit (separately) into the washing machine, so we wash them when we swap them over.

The summer ones I don't cover so wash every couple of weeks (they fit in the washer) the winter ones I take in March to the launderette.

Twice a year. In the washing machine at home. They dry very quickly!

I'm less good with pillows. So to mitigate that every pillow is double pillowcased and has an allergy pillowcase on too.

Never.

I don’t! At least once a year a pet or child vomits on it to the point of no return, so I bin it and buy a new one. Wasteful maybe, but the thought of all that puke in my washing machine makes me gag.

Take mine to laundrette twice a year as it fits in the machines there. I wash the singles ones myself in my own machine again twice a year.

Incredible waste, and it all goes into landfill.

Ours get washed at the change of season. The summer ones fit in the machine, the winter ones go to the cleaners (£17.50 last year I think). I have a friend who has clearly never washed her duvets & the slightly sweaty, musty smell keeps me awake when I stay there.

I have replaced all my duvets with night owl coverless duvets from the fine bedding company. They go in the washing machine, even the king size ones. Wash them every couple of weeks. No annoying duvet cover to put back on. Such a game changer.

Never
I wash the cover, that's enough.

Same here. Too big for the washing machine so would have to pay £££ for cleaning.
They never get wet or peed on, always have covers on, thick cotton washed weekly.

I used to take my super king once a year, I realised recently I couldn’t remember when I last did it so I took it last week.

it cost £15 for a service wash and dry so presumably would be cheaper if I did it myself in the launderette. It’s worth it and so much better for the environment.

Every quarter. It goes in the machine.

Depends on the material. DH and I have wool (summer) and down (winter) duvets.

I air them on the line every summer but I haven’t felt the need to wash either of them in the ~ 3 years we’ve had them. They just smell like wool and feather.

The kids have synthetic duvets and I wash them every few months.

Once a year. They're feathers and take an age to dry, I hate doing it.

Ive got a wool one, goes to the launderette about once a year although like someone else, the cat weed on it a few times in a row, the woman at the launderette said 'what again?' when I kept bringing it back

Was just looking at the pillows today and thinking they look manky, they'll be washed when the weather is warm enough to hang outside.
Plus our mattress topper that also gets done about once a year, thats all looking manky too.

Wow. And how many geese have to die to make your duvets - just to end up in a landfill...

I just put mine through a cold wash in my washing machine once a year or so.

This is Mumsnet so obviously I incinerate my duvet every day along with all the bedding and replace it with fresh

I've never washed one. But then I'm a lax low-key housekeeper

Maybe the OP has a synthetic duvet. Plus she doesn't say how long it takes to consider the duvet minging. Maybe she means 10 years.

weve got a super king, I'd never fit it in the machine, I can barely fit the cover in my

Never