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What TOG duvet?

11 replies

MaggieW · 09/07/2004 13:45

DS is about to go into first bed - he's 2 1/2. What TOG duvet should I buy - any particular recommendations on where to get it too?

OP posts:

daisy1999 · 10/07/2004 22:30

I asked my hv when mine went into a bed and there appeared to be no recommendations. I went for the thinnest I could find (6 tog).

Furball · 10/07/2004 23:48

DS is nearly 3, we have a 10 tog for winter and a 4 tog for summer. The 10 tog came from Argos and the summer one came from Safeways.

Marina · 11/07/2004 13:59

Maggie, try John Lewis if you have a branch near you. The assistant who served us steered us in the direction of a special (not expensive) lightweight duvet for small children, they are not supposed to have higher tog ones because of not being able to regulate their own temperatures fully yet. We would have bought a far thicker one, not realising. His duvet really is wafer thin but he always seems warm and cosy.

bootsmonkey · 11/07/2004 14:07

DD is under a 4.5tog duvet (half of a summer/winter set that button together), but she still wakes up extremely sweaty and looking scarily like Ken Dodd! Not even particularly warm at the mo - I was thinking of just putting an empty duvet cover over her and seeing what happened.

enid · 11/07/2004 14:20

The white company do very lightweight luxurious feather duvets (4.5 TOG) - they cost £35 but I am ashamed to say I have bought one for dd2 (20 months - refuses sleeping bag) and her cot just looks like the cosiest place imaginable...

poppyseed · 13/07/2004 00:01

Matalan/Asda/even our local Co-op does 4.5tog for around a fiver. I am fed up of spending a lot on duvets only to have to scrape the vomit off them - sorry!!!

enid · 13/07/2004 16:23

you can wash dd2's in the machine.

poppyseed · 13/07/2004 16:31

Enid - is it a cot or a single bed?? sorry misunderstood..... Can't get a single really clean in our washer as it's too cramped, so but cheaper stuff and throw away!! How terrible that sounds...

bundle · 13/07/2004 16:32

service wash? launderettes have massive drums on their machines.

enid · 13/07/2004 16:40

sorry, its only a cot bed size not a single - it says specialist clean only but I put it in the machine on 40 delicates and tumble dry it and its been fine!

poppyseed · 13/07/2004 17:00

Bundle - I worry about who has used the washers before me. Goes back to student days when I got my washing out with somebody else's pubes on them....eeeek!!

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