How often do you wash your family duvets?

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And do you have a large capacity washing machine?

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You buy a new duvet every 6 months? Wow! That's a crazy level of spending on duvets! Why don't you wash them? Will cost you loads less. I did mine at the launderette recently and it was £12 for a wash and dry.

@Ihearyousingingdownthewire - ok. But on a Mumsnet thread about cleaning it's not always easy to tell whether someone is being serious.

I don't buy expensive ones (Tesco £25 ish ones) and love the feeling of the new duvet. I would also feel bad now telling the dog bed lady I didn't have duvets for her 😕

Summer and Winter together here, wash at local Laundrette at change of season.

Dry on my whirly on hot day

Every month for ones tht fit in washing machine. Dry clean the larger ones, i do it when i randomly get the ick about them. 😅

Once a month, sheets (top and bottom) weekly.

Machine is 9kg.

This is quite timely. My cat was sick on my winter duvet this morning. Luckily it's a cheap 100% polyester type and I could spot clean it. I was able to clean the bit that had gone through the cover with carpet cleaner and then a sponge and put it on the line in the sun.

I agree, one a year for a synthetic duvet is not unreasonable.

Was quoted over £30 for a 10.5 tog king size one at the local laundrette, much cheaper to get a replacement. Local one is not self service

I get ours cleaned when the cat throws up on them, I take them to Johnson's but they get laundered, not dry cleaned. It is a bit galling that you could get a cheap new one for the same price, but couldn't just chuck them.

Feather duvets taken to the dry cleaner when the weather gets warmer. We only really use blankets in the summer. Have electric blankets and throws in case the weather turns.

Since a new dry cleaner opened locally, they'll be done at change of season. £20 for a feather and down kingsize. Going to get pillows done (£5) in relays as they are White Company.

Replaced every three or four years. Maybe more if they are still ok. I use a top sheet and a cover. The Used one donated to the dog shelter. Saves the water and the electric not to wash them, and the doggies benefit. Win win.

I know. That’s why I didn’t make it totally plain.

Surely it uses far more water and power to make a new duvet?

My cat only occasionally throws up from eating too fast, it just smells the same as when it went in. A bit of carpet cleaner on it, sponge and leave it in the sun and it's fine now. Luckily not like proper people sick!

Yes, @Kalevala, it depends on how much and how quickly after the event we've found it!

Luckily I've caught it quickly when it's been on the duvet. I don't understand why the cat doesn't get that puke is better on the grass, or at least on a hard floor? I've chased him outside or shut him in the bathroom enough times when I've heard him.

Coverless duvets washed fortnightly when the beds are changed or more often if required (I have a stoma and prone to overnight leaks

Once a year, if that. I take the synthetic ones to the giant washer in the launderette, and the big goose down one has to go to a specialist cleaner.

I have two goose down duvets and they were fine in my home washing machine.

You must only use non-bio washing powder, though.

I ruined a wonderful goose down pillow in the washing machine, and I'm afraid to take a chance with the duvet!

Wash before packing away for the season, ours is super king so launderette service wash, although I've just discovered the petrol station up the road has a massive washer and tumble dryer that texts you fifteen minutes before your load is finished, so the winter duvet might be going there soon. Then vacuum bagged and put in the ottoman bed until it's cold enough to get it out again at which point I'll get the summer duvet washed. We do have a large capacity machine and DS' heaviest duvet is 7 tog, he's five and hot even in mid winter, his just go on the washing machine and on the line but ours are just too big

Just take to large machines at laundrette. Don’t dry clean

I never have. I hang outside the air at least once a year.