Dry cleaning duvet madness!

Polly

Left two single duvets at my local dry cleaners to give them a freshen before putting on the kids beds for winter. Didn't discuss price and can't remember what I paid last time but my ticket states that it will be £16 on collection. I can buy new ones (13.5 tog) for £6.49 in Argos! Obviously will have to go back and collect these ones but I'm so cross that its costing more to have them cleaned that it would to buy new. My washing machine is too small, by the way - I tried this before I left them in.

tiff

Yeah, I bought a new duvet for my son rather than put it in the cleaners, at £6 you cant go wrong (thats how much I paid in T J Hughes).

Polly

From an environmental point of view its crazy that its cheaper to throw things away and buy new rather than clean/repair etc. What's the world coming to!!

gooismeid

Most laundrettes have big machines you can wash duvets in - so that's a couple of quid rather than £16, but it does mean you hang around a laundrette for an hour or so...

jcr16

i may get told off for suggestion this , but un collected items at a dry cleaner get donated to charity . so if u left them they would go to a very good home later on.

but next time they need cleaning i would take them to the textile bin for recycling and just buy new.

locally there is a washing service who will collect your duvet and return it next week. it costs me 8 pounds to have my kingsize duvet cleaned. which i don't think is tooo bad as my kingsize duvet cost over 100 pounds many years ago.

tawnyowls

Polly wrote:

From an environmental point of view its crazy that its cheaper to throw things away and buy new rather than clean/repair etc. What's the world coming to!!

It's the disposable society, unfortunately. At least with things like duvets you can make them into other things -stuffing for cushions for instance.

I'm surprised you couldn't fit at least one into your WM - I can get my single winter-weight duvets and the summer-weight KS into mine. Otherwise, I use the big machines at the laundrette.

Alfietinker

Try a laundrette instead of dry cleaning. Our local is £4.80 for the huge machine which fits a king-size or £2.80 for the standard ones, which are still much larger than the home ones and should be OK for a single.

If they're feather ones you can tumble dry at the laundrettes (costs me about £3 for the king size) or for polyfibre, dry them at home.

Polly

No launderette where I live unfortunately and none in the neighbouring towns either. Will probably have to replace the washing machine shortly as its been repaired lots of times and is about to give up. Will def get one with a larger drum so I can wash this type of thing. My standard machine will just not take it. Have considered not going back for the duvets but as I said, its a small town.....

Phatmouse

jcr16 wrote:

i may get told off for suggestion this , but un collected items at a dry cleaner get donated to charity . so if u left them they would go to a very good home later on.

but next time they need cleaning i would take them to the textile bin for recycling and just buy new.

locally there is a washing service who will collect your duvet and return it next week. it costs me 8 pounds to have my kingsize duvet cleaned. which i don't think is tooo bad as my kingsize duvet cost over 100 pounds many years ago.

How clean does it actually get it.

I paid similar amount for mine a few years back and to be honest it has never been cleaned yuk.

its feather filled, does that matter?

I was looking to buy a new one but there is nothing wrong with this one really, its not manky it would just be nice to freshen it up rather than replace it.

PhoenixB

Dont do duvets!!!!

I have found one in the loft, which belonged to my partners nanna (we live in what was her house) - very good quality and high tog, so i will probably get it drycleaned as i haven't paid out for it in the first place

greenbee

Make sure that your dry cleaner is washing the duvets rather than dry cleaning them - they should be wet cleaned rather than dry.

The chances are that if your single duvets didn't fit in a standard WM, they are good quality ones, so worth keeping. I find that the cheap ones fit in very easily, but not the decent ones. (Mind you, the summer half of my very expensive feather kingsize duvet fits in my standard machine).

Compare the cost of having them cleaned to the cost of replacing them with something of the same quality and you might find it works out better. Duvets vary hugely in price, and there's a reason for it!