Washing Pillows

astep70uk

Erm . . .no . . I haven't washed my duvet either, but I do hoover my mattress when I change the beds
Actually, when I think of all the skin I can see in my Dyson after hoovering once a week, I think I WILL start washing the duvet.

HOLsale

melancholly wrote:

i bought new pillows at ikea - £1.79 each, then protector zip up things for £1.29 each (just on the off chance of a vomit related incident!). they may not be the best you can get, but at that price, you can't really complain.

well that will save you having to wash your pillows then!

i like the mattresses at our flat now, they have a built in plastic coating on them so wee or vomit has never been a problem (we did dd's toilet training in this flat)

melancholly

HOLsale wrote:

well that will save you having to wash your pillows then!

i should point out that i am just on my own, with OH at weekends - no kids - should make vomit unlikely!!! (i hope so anyway!)

[Deleted User]

< . you can even wash them in the bathtub if you have too>


More memories of when I was a little sprog.My Mum at spring cleaning time used to wash the blankets in the old tin bath,( we didn't have an indoor one, this tin one lived on the back door of our cellar and was used every Friday night to scrub mucky children in.) and as I was the smallest I had to tramp up and down in the bath on top of each blanket in the soapy water.This was regarded by me as a real treat as I loved squishing about and getting wet without the thought of getting a wallop from Mum.Our loo was an outside one as well.When we eventually had an indoor bathroom it wasn't nearly half so much fun.:rotfl:

katglasgow

I use 4 safety pins and pin one through each corner of the pillow to stop it all from getting lunmpy when washed - my mums taught me to do this. Its the safe idea as the stuching method really. I have found this works really well. Dont have a self service launderette anywhere near where I live unfrontuately, so my double double had NEVER been cleaned (oh dear...).

greylace

Not long ago I washed all our duvets - about 6 of them - cost a fortune in the local laundrette - I certainly had no change from about £40. If I wash them once a month as someone suggested, I will have to increase the mortgage.

I have been looking at buying a washing machine with a large load capacity but this does not seem totally practical either - there are few large machines around and they are not economic to use if you dont fill them up. I would like to buy a Miele - which everyone recommends - but as far as I can see they dont do a large machine.

What do I do? Just find a cheaper laundrette seems to be the answer

Suggetions please

squeaky

greylace wrote:

Not long ago I washed all our duvets - about 6 of them - cost a fortune in the local laundrette - I certainly had no change from about £40. If I wash them once a month as someone suggested, I will have to increase the mortgage.

What do I do? Just find a cheaper laundrette seems to be the answer

Suggetions please

I don't think there are any easy ways. perhaps you'd like to browse the threads listed below, picked from the cleaning section of our MEGA Index sticky and adopt anything that you think might help.

Bedding:
[post=188381] - Cleaning a duck down quilt[/post]
[post=403210] - Dull whites[/post]
[post=597148] - How often should you wash Duvets & Pillows[/post]
[post=524455] - Keep duvet smelling fresh?[/post]
[post=21724] - Washing a duvet[/post]
[post=394878] - Washing a feather duvet[/post]
[post=595627] - White bed linen[/post]

Js_Other_Half

I'm thinking of buying a polypropylene cover for our duvet - the cover is dustmite proofed, etc. Beatties have a king size one for less than £30, and I can wash that without any problems. Maybe this is an option for you?

Swan_2

Gers wrote:

Pillows are Dunlopillow latex ones so don't collect beasties

I didn't know that Gers, a good point for those worried about mites etc

all of mine are Dunlopillos, but simply because they're so wonderfully comfortable. they're not cheap, but never lose their shape or go lumpy or flat. the initial outlay was considerable, but I've saved in the long run by not having to replace them every few months as I did with even the so-called 'best quality' hollowfibre ones

I did try new feather ones once, they smelled so foul (no pun intended) like rancid dripping or something that in the end I couldn't use them & had to throw them out

Poundland do pillow protectors in packs of 4, at that price you could even put two on each pillow to avoid the consequences of liquid accidents!

[Deleted User]

I have spent my second night using a new dunlopillow as recommended by some kind poster on this thread. I slept through !!! what a difference

My last pillows were good quality feather pillows from northern nights (qvc) and they still plump up nicely but they flattened during the night. I have been waking up at 3-4 am every day. I have washed them and tumbled them with balls so they are nice and clean and they are now going to my daughters house for her guest bed. I have become a dunlopillow convert. Definitely worth the money.

I read in tightwad that to wash just sew with thread in and out from side to side