Duvets - worth cleaning?

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Back in the late Sixties, the Austrians would beat them with things that looked like clumsy tennis racquets.

 

[Blue Hills]

Back in the late Sixties, the Austrians would beat them with things that looked like clumsy tennis racquets.

"them" to read "themselves"?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

[QUOTE 5418191, member: 9609"]this is basically what I used to do with my down sleeping bags, hang them inside-out on long sunny days in the summer, the strong ultra violet light kills all the bacteria and micro organisms and the smell goes. Its free and environmentally friendly[/QUOTE]
That's what they do on the continent with mattresses and quilts.
Here in Scotland a long summer day could be interrupted by rain any minute!

 

[slowmotion]

"them" to read "themselves"?

At an impressionable age, I went to an Austrian evening that featured men in leather shorts spanking each other while pretending to be wood-cutters. Fortunately, expensive therapy has helped.

 

[Speicher]

Washing machines takes them, before that it was in the bath with them.

How big is your bath? Are you sure there is room in the bath for you and the duvets?

 

[screenman]

How big is your bath? Are you sure there is room in the bath for you and the duvets?

Yep.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Somewhat off-topic, as the covers rather than the duvet.

But 95 degrees?

What the hell do you get up to in your bed?

Hot wash, cotton wash same as towels.
You need to kill the bacteria .

 

[theclaud]

At an impressionable age, I went to an Austrian evening that featured men in leather shorts spanking each other while pretending to be wood-cutters.

54?

 

[gbb]

Apparently they get washed in our house, the ones that can be. Obviously I interpret that to mean some can be, some can't dependent on material I'd imagine.
We don't have hulking great duvets so that makes it easier I guess, can't stand overheating at night, we're a pair of ruffty tuffties y'know

 

[Globalti]

Duvets should be laundered at the end of their season of use. Dry cleaners will get it done for you.

 

[fossyant]

Hand wash in bath on a warm day, then try and squeeze out and then run like hell to the washing line before the house floods.

I throw the duvet off. Don't think I've slept under the covers for a long time. Certainly not since breaking my back due to all the drugs im on.

 

[Dave7]

It really depends on the quality/price of the one you have.
If its a good one the cleaning is well worth it. Conversley if its cheap give it to a homeless person or the dogs home.
We have just had ours done at the launderette. £5.50 for the wash plus
£3.00 to thoroughly dry it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Why don't they make duvets that come apart by zips,press studs or velcro,so you can wash the sections one or two at a time? The laundry near me has a new machine capable of taking a king sized duvet at £6 a time. I washed one the other month (took about a month to air dry as well) but i'm too scared to use it in case it gets something spilt on it,which kind of defeats the object of having it.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I feel like a complete slob now, but I've never washed a duvet. I think my mum used to hang hers out just to get the wind through it, but that's it. If it were me though, I'd chuck it in the machine and hope for the best. I find a "summer" duvet is enough for me all year round, if I get cold then I just wear pyjamas to bed.

 

[steverob]

My in-laws take our duvet to the launderette for us while we're on holiday each year - that way we're never without it. Costs them about £8 from memory. As it's a king size, it certainly wouldn't be able to fit it in our washing machine (if it was a double, it might just squeeze in).

We just have the one duvet (10.5 TOG) and use it all year round - if it gets too hot in summer we just sleep under the duvet cover with no duvet in it! Whereas the duvet covers themselves get washed every 7-10 days at 60 degrees, but we have four of those in circulation, so that's not a problem.