How to wash a weighted blanket?!!

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Hi,

I am currently laid trying to recover from a stay in hospital uncomfortable and bored.

I am unable to any housework at the moment, but I cannot stop wondering, when I am better i really need to wash my dd14 weighted blanket. It doesn’t smell very pleasant at all, not been washed from new in the winter and already had a weird new smell that now smells unpleasant.

It smells!! I have heard of washing them in a bath, is this possible? It’s so heavy anyway, so with the added weight of water how do you move it around to wash it?

Then I assume you drain water and leave say over night? Then how do you lift it to dry? And dry it how? On what? I line made of steel?!

How do you wash yours? No laundrettes here, we are in the countryside.

Thanks

I’m having the same dilemma. DS has one of the heaviest weighted blankets and I can barely lift it.
Last summer I draped it over the garden bench and poured multiple buckets of soapy water over it on a hot day. As you say, soaking it in the bath would be ideal but then impossible to move. Might see if I can get an old baby bath or big enough container to give it a soak in the garden and then put it over the bench and hose it to rinse.

I just chucked my sons in the machine it was fine.

@marriednotdead thats not a bad idea, I hadn’t thought of hosing it down.

Whatever happens it will be next time it’s really hot outside or it’s just going to go mouldy..

Knew my mum shouldn’t have bought it!

@Mo819 jez!! I think my washing machine would have a wander throughout the downstairs before it blew up from exhaustion 😂

I put my dd one in garden hanging over fence and steamed it a couple of times with a hand held steamer then sponge washed a couple of stains, steamed it again and left it for the day to air out x

One of the industrial DIY laundry things you get in car parks/local communities?
I think the company is called laundry revolution. I’m sure the max load is 20kg
you chuck it in and sit in your car to wait on it finishing.
https://www.thelaundryrevolution.co.uk/about-revolution

edited to add the website

I put a duvet cover over my son’s. But will have to wash it at some point!

What are the weighted parts made from? Some are metal some are poly beads

No idea what it is made of, i will try and find out.

Why didn’t I think of covering first?! That is a great idea! Oh well.

We live in the countryside so no laundrettes or anything like that.

So many people seem to have these blankets, there must be an easier way to clean them!

Surely it came with instructions?Google the manufacturer/make and see what they say for your particular one.

I reckon wash it in the bath. It will be heavy when wet though.

or take it to a launderette

can they be dry cleaned?

I have a child one for my DS. I tried to wash it in the bath and hang it over a the curtain pole at the top and it took four days to stop dripping water. I think all in it took 10-12 days to fully dry.
I want to power wash it and leave it in the garden on a hot day!
I hope you're recovering well from your stay in hospital.

I put my daughters in the washing machine just this week. I weighed it first & it was 6kg so able to go into an 8kg machine. Came up a treat. Otherwise, I would have hosed it down as previously advised.

I put ours in the washing machine, tied into a duvet cover, very occasionally. I worry if the beads escape it could wreck the machine.