Do you ever get your duvet cleaned?

[MrsMuddle]

I am generally a slattern, but I think I have surpassed even my usual low standards here. I've never had my duvet cleaned, and it is definitely more than 10 years old (maybe older... DH thinks we bought a new one when the DC were small. I'm not so sure.)

Obviously, I change the cover regularly - I'm not that minging!

I guess I should think about having it cleaned or getting a new one.

I'm prepared for an onslaught of posters who get their duvets cleaned annually!

cheaper to buy a new one

I wash the singles, and my thin king size. Don't think a thick king would fit in the machine.

In theory, in the summer I sticjk them in my washing machine and then hang them over the line to dry, but as I am dependant on a guaranteed day of sunshine and wind, and my large duvet doesn't quite fit then I normally wash 2 one year and 2 the next, but am never sure which I washed!

I do kno one has a coffee stain on it from when DD1 was tiny

I do ours at the laundrette once a year or so
def not worth £20 at the dry cleaners but worth £4 at the laundrette

I take a day off work every year for a spring clean (anywhere between March and June) and I hire a skip and go through the house room by room. Lots of stuff into the skip, lots more stuff into charity shops etc etc. It's a marathon, but fun and strangely cleansing.

The day starts with a trip to the launderette with all the duvets in the house for a clean. Every year. I also do pillows ...

laundromat washing machines are big enough to take the really big king size ones. for less than a fiver, you can wash it. i usually do it once a year.

Have a summer and a winter one. Take them to the dry cleaners to be cleaned half way through using them then befroe they are stored away for 6 months.

nope have never had mine cleaned either

mine get spot cleaned very regularly (toddler and baby)

i have washed in bath and dried outside in summer and my neighbour very kindly washed and tumble dried my spare duvet when i asked her where the laundrette was around here as she has big drummed appliances and all she took from me was a some homemade cake

I didn't know you could put them in the machine!
even feather ones?

i had my king size duvet dry cleaned after a diarrhoea accident by DS for £20, but that was before I found out I could do it at the laundry for £4 or £5.

Def try your local launderette.

ggirl - yes but read the label
must be a lareg capacity machine, must be tumbled dry with new tennis balls or some Doodles to refluff it

aah
right will do that next week

may be able to breathe when I wake up !!

There is a knack to getting it into the washing machine. You need to roll it into a well, roll shape.

Lay it on the floor, fold it into the middle from both sides (so length wise it meets in the middle), fold it again so it is now like a long sausage then roll it up. It should then just slot into your washing machine. I do this every 2/3 months and it really cleans them, Put it on a 60 degree wash with loads of fabric softener and it will smell gorgeous. I then hang it either over the line or if in the winter, over my banister. If it is really dirty, rewash it but roll it the other way around so both sides get a good clean.

DD1 was sick quite badly on our expensive one recently, I did the above and it came up like new.

I would take it to a laundrette. I have a heavy duvet for winter that is feather, and it will not fit in the washing machine here, so I take it to have it laundered once a year.

The lighter tog duvets and duvets for single beds I take to a self-service launderette before storing them for the season.

Have to say ours isn't feather though, can't stand them, they make me itch like mad. Not too sure if you can put the feather ones in the wash.

Mine would probably disintegrate now if I washed it.

The boys' duvets get chucked in for a wash fairly regularly.

Hey bubble (hijack alert) did you have a good christmas/NYE?

I used to have a washing machine that could take even our thick winter duvet, so I used to wash them just before they got put back into use with the change of seasons - and when the cat or child had an accident. For the last 3 years we've had a machine that not only doesn't have a 30 degree wash, but won't take even the thin duvets, so haven't done them for 3yrs. Got new ones this year because the Co-op was selling them for less than a tenner (they'll fall apart if they're washed, I'm sure, vile material).

we wash the singles in the washing machine every other month and the kingsize goes to the cleaners once every 6 months

I wash the single synthetic ones in the washing machine (as I do the pillows) about once a year.

I bought a new goose down double superking duvet last summer so haven't bothered to have it cleaned yet, but will take it to the cleaners when the sniff test tells me to.

You can get duvets that can be washed in a domestic machine at 60 degrees. I can get the king size one in my machine no problem. I've replaced mine with these and they are fantastic. Can't remember the brand though.

Single ones, and lightweight summer ones, get thrown in the washing machine once in a while.

Heavier ones - too big for machine - get replaced when they look a bit worse for wear.