Tumble dryer burning blankets and duvets

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I have a tumble dryer which works perfectly fine for drying clothes. But, sometimes when drying duvets or blankets (all stuff where the label says it can be tumbled) it burns the fabric. It can be as little as a few small brown scorch marks to full on singeing the fabric - makes it all crusty and brittle.

The dryer is probably about 10 years old but it normally works fine. We don't even use it on a high heat setting - just stick it on for x-amount of time and it can ruin things.

Any ideas why or what I can do to stop it happening? A new duvet is now damaged!

Bin it. It’s running too hot. Massive fire risk.

Well my first thought is stop using it before you burn your house down

https://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/tumble-drying-duvet-fire-risk/

It's running too hot op I'd get rid of it you really don't want anything catching fire

I’d ditch the dryer too. Seen the damage driers can cause ahd this one is clearly a risk.

As everyone else said - fire risk!!!

But I would have thought it might be because the duvet is too big (in terms of volume) for the dryer. It isn’t moving as freely as clothes and that is why there are scorch marks.

As I said, just a thought, don’t know much about this but still…fire risk!!!

I would most definitely get rid!