Do You Wash or Dry Clean Your Duvets ?

[deeahgwitch]

Just wondering do you wash or dry clean your duvets ?
Which is best ?
I sent mine to the dry cleaners in the past but I read somewhere that is not the best for them.

Neither. I put them out in the sunshine regularly.

Wash the double which will fit into my washing machine. Service wash the king-sized one which won't. Once a year when good drying weather.

Neither

Neither.

I don't have any now as I use an electric blanket so I just washed that but when I had duvets I didn't wash them ever.

I suppose if one had got soiled I would have just thrown it away and got another one because I don't think my washing machine would be big enough.

I certainly wouldn't dry clean it because I don't think dry cleaning does anything.

If you have a king size bed, it is better to have two single duvets I think.

I wash mine once a year. Smaller ones in my machine at home, the bigger ones at my local laundrette.

Dry cleaning is chemicals, I wouldn't want my bedding with a chemical residue. I don't do either.

Yes, that's a good point. I hate the smell of dry cleaning chemicals and certainly would not want that on my duvet

Never dry clean. At the the dry cleaners I worked at they only washed them. Mine fit in my washing machine.

Ours fit in the washing machine. As it’s gorgeous today, I’ve washed our king sized duvet and put it on the line. This is the one and only time I get the retractable washing line out as I’m a year round tumble dryer. I then washed the topper and that’s on the line too. I might do all the other duvets and toppers tomorrow if I can be arsed.

How on earth ate you all getting them in the washer ? There is not a hope in hell even my lightest summer one would fit in mine.

Mine is currently soaking in the ibath I will stomp on it a few times this evening and put it out to dry overnight.

We have a washer-dryer so the drum is nowhere near big enough for a double duvet, so we resort to a service wash. Which reminds me, the winter-weight one we took off recently needs to be done as it is currently languishing in a pile on the spare room floor.

I only have single sized ones. Wash them twice a year and then tumble dry. For in between, it’s either the sun or refresh cycle in the tumble dryer.

I have a wool filled duvet . Like an op said up thread , put it out on a sunny day .

Once a year with non- bio washing powder on a gentle cycle, on a weekend like this.

I did that once when living with ex. He didn't have a large enough washing machine and his duvets smelt musty so I washed each in turn on the bath. OMG, the water was black, they can't have been washed in a decade. 😫

It worked though. Four washes, two rinses and then out on the line. Smelt lovely & fresh afterwards.

It was either that or bin them.

Yes, I wash mine in the bath too!

Wash. Dry cleaning is horrible, smells afterwards.

The 1st time I washed mine I was both mortified and amazed
@Tortephant bath washing rules 😀 but it's a bugger on your back 😦

I wash them in the washing machine and either line dry outside or tumble dry them.

The biggest duvets in my house are double so they fit in my large washing machine. If they didn’t fit in my washing machine, I think I’d rather wash them in a big machine at a laundrette or petrol station than dry clean them because if the chemicals.

My duvets are all synthetic materials. It might be different for feathers!

I have double duvets in 1, 2.5, 4.5, 7 and 10.5 togs. I wash all of them apart from 10.5 once a year in my average sized washing machine and then tumble dry.

I only use the 10.5 once in a blue moon so that's never been washed, but I can go years without ever using it so it doesn't get dirty( hot sleeper).

My summer ones fit in my machine & the winter king-size go to the cleaners, but they wash them, it's not dry cleaning. I don't think you can fry clean feathers anyway. I think people are mistling the fact that you take them to the cleaners for dry cleaning, I think they always wash them
I hate a musty duvet. A friend has disgusting old ones they've had since they were students (40 years ago) & I swear they've never been washed. I can't sleep when I'm there because of the musty smell.

I just buy a new one once a year, I get cheap ones from Tesco, Dunelm or Argos, costs just a few pounds more to buy new then to wash at a laundrette

I have never washed a duvet ever.

I never have - I put them on the bannister to ‘air’ when we change the beds.
I air the beds (and the house) every morning rain / hail / snow wevs - in the dry weather I’ll stick them on the line to air on bed changing day.

I now feel scummy. Can I machine wash a speaking feather thing? It was expensive- I don’t want to make it go wrong?