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?

king size and doesn't fit in the washing machine. I buy new for summer and Autumn/Winter

People have more than one duvet for each bed?!?? That alone has absolutely blown my mind.

Should I have one for different seasons? I feel like I’ve been adulting wrong.

I don't.. l buy a new one.. Well two .. winter and summer from IKEA.
Cheaper than dry cleaning and nothing more nicer than a new bouncy duvet ...l also buy new pillows regularly..they get worse than the duvet for body skin cells.
If you don't get new and don't wash them.. makes me wonder if they wash their bedding every week?

You’re buying two (presumably synthetic) duvets every year?

I’m no environmentalist, but they take more than 500 years to degrade in landfill. Even if it’s used as dog bedding or whatever before it’s binned, it’s still a massive waste.

Post this on Gransnet and see what happens . It crops up fairly often and garners the usual response. The queen bee and her entourage will swoop and berate you for even having to ask 😂 🐝

My duvet is nearly twenty years old! No need to replace them every dew years.

Ours is superking so, although the summer one fits in the washing machine (and dries on the line in one day if it's sunny and breezy), the winter one needs to be washed and dried at the launderette. It costs about £15 - much cheaper than a new superking duvet.

Those of you who are taking your duvets to be dry cleaned - be sure to air them well afterwards. The dry cleaning solvents tend to linger in the duvet filling, and aren't very good for you to breathe in all night.

Yes. Modtbpeople have at least a summer and winter one. Some change times a year. Or you can get two that snap together to make a winter one.

But yes, that is what the tog ratings are all about.

*most people

mine are down and feather and get laundered once a year (or more if there's a tea spillage incident). The dry cleaner charges £24 for laundering and drying. I comes back all fluffy and clean and goes in the cupboard as the season changes.

Well I live in a country where we tend to have no heating in the bedrooms, and it gets pretty cold in winter, and pretty hot in summer, so yes.

As it happens I don't wash my bedding weekly - there is only me in the bed - but I would be far, far, more ashamed of constantly buying new duvets. What a waste of money, and as for the effects on the environment!!!!!

What is the point in washing a duvet once a year?

I have a 10.5 tog, a 7, a 4.5, a 2.5 and a 1 tog which I change according to season and temperature.

Probably 4/5 times a year, in the washing machine and tumble dryer at home. I wash it when I spill coffee in it or a child is sick on it or it goes camping and comes home. Or just because I want to know it is clean!

Never unless something has happened like one of the children weed on it or one time it got mud on it when we took it camping. Took it to laundrette (after rinsing affected area out in bath) for both of those incidents.

Summer one goes in the wash as needed, at least once a year.
Winter one never, I use a flat sheet and cover, buy a mid price one around £50 about every 3 or 4 years.

DS's bed was single so his duvets could be washed as needed

@Whatwouldnanado there is an edit button. Press the 3 dots at the top of your post and it brings up the option.

We only have Timpson and Johnson's cleaners in our town, Johnson's price for KS duvet is £31 for synthetic, £33 for feather. I can't find Timpsons prices but suspect they aren't cheap.

We used to have a proper laundrette back in the day about 5-10 minute walk away with large washers and dryers you could use yourself, or they would do it for you, now we just have Timpsons in Asda and Johnson's in Waitrose, where I guess it's taken off site to do.

Never in our house although I give them an airing when we change the bedsheets. My parents never washed theirs either and I'm certain they have duvets which are decades old.

I've never washed mine - I've had a wool one for the last ten years and they are supposed to be naturally anti bacterial, anti house dust mite. I change the cover regularly, my duvet looks and smells clean and I don't seem to be catching any unwashed duvet diseases from it so i can't see why it needs washing. I don't have any weeing cats or vomiting children though.

I used to do this, then I bought a wool one from baavet.
It gets aired outside on the line 3 or 4 times a year.
If by chance it gets weed on or puked on, itll go in the compost bin and I'll buy a new one.
Wool composts well. And the cotton cover will compost too just take a bit longer.

Everyone in our house uses single duvets due to disagreements about preferred sleeping temperature, I can put them through the washing machine with the covers still on and get them back on a bed that night, so they each get washed about 35-40 times a year? (e.g.: hypothetically every week, but no worries if we are away or ill and using the duvet all day or hosting guests on a specific weekend, we do have a change of cover each that can be used as well).

FOr those of you who wash theirs in the home washing machine: how many togs are they? We have a 15tog superking duvet and a 10Kg washing machine. No way would the duvet fit in the machine. So off to the dry cleaners it goes.

I have 2 different weights which can go together, or separately into a cover, and that goes on top of a sheet, so they're not dirty.
I air them off every so often and give them a good shake.