Washing Pillows

thriftlady_2

My Oh converted me to Dulopillows,they are fab.

maryb

Children have cheap pillows in my house which get binned if they throw up. Don't know about anyone else but the last thing I fancy doing at 2 am is stitching through the middle of a pukey pillow.

DH never changed a nappy on our two girls. I did a deal with him that he would cope with puke and I would cope with nappies. We both think we got the best of the bargain

HOLsale

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

my goodness, how much are these laundrettes charging?

i live in uni family flats and they have the large capacity washing machines

i can just get a double size 10.5 tog duvet in and the wash costs £1.60

i don't normally dry mine in the driers as they don't take long to dry if you put them on an airer next to a radiator but i could dry them for 60p so i can wash and tumble dry a duvet for £2.20 each

i guess if i was paying £40 for 6 i wouldn't wash them very often either! it would only cost me £13.20 not that i'd have that many, we only have 3 that get used regularly, one of them is used under the sheet as a mattress pad...

dyson does a machine with twin barrels that takes a 7kg load and it's supposed to be very energy efficient. we ALWAYS do huge loads of laundry as we can't afford to put £1.60 in a washing machine and only do a few things so this wouldn't be a change for us

the bathtub method works quite well for duvets, it's good exercise too, but you really need a line to hang the duvet out on

at the very least i would recommend duvets be washed every 4 months if it's really impractical to do them more often... i am prone to respiratory infections and was told years ago by my doctor that if i washed my duvets and pillows more often it would make a big difference and i found that to be very true!

it's really down to what works best for everyone but this is one area where i'm quite picky... course if you saw my kitchen floor right now you'd wonder why i was making such a fuss about the bed linen :rotfl:

Lady_E

I have a few pillows that need washing , but I am a little worried that they cannot be tumbledried.I cannot see any washing instructions , I just wonder if it will be ok to do it .Any advice?

Bossyboots

Despite mine saying they could be machine washed, they went out of shape and there was nothing I could do with them. They should be washable but I would only recommend doing so by hand.

Pink.

Hi Lady E,

I have merged your thread with another one on washing pillows as it's easier for Old Style readers to find replies on the same topic in one thread. As always the suggestions are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to see all the replies.

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Gingham_Ribbon

Unless you're washing them at 60 degrees or higher, washing won't kill dust mites.

I admit, I replace mine fairly regularly because of my asthma. I have not had any luck with washing them.

Js_Other_Half

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Unless you're washing them at 60 degrees or higher, washing won't kill dust mites.

I admit, I replace mine fairly regularly because of my asthma. I have not had any luck with washing them.

I have some quilted pillow covers from Matalan that are meant to have 'built in' anti bacterial and anti dustmite properties. They are called 'slumberdown allergeezzz pillow protector'. A pack of two is £5, but they are only meant to be washed at 50 degrees.

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babe_ruth_3

latex pillow for me. Mine goes everywhere with me. Its off to cornwall this weekend!!

saving-grace

coffeeandfags wrote:

I just take a needle and thread and put one big stitch through the middle of the pillow. It can be cut out after the wash, but means that the fibre bit cant move around inside the case bit and cause a lump.

This works! I tried it this morning and for the first time ever I have washed pillows without them going mis-shapen and lumpy.
I actually used several large stitches around and across the pillow, only took 2 or 3 minutes to do it. You need a long needle. Then as someone said I curved my pillows around the curve of the drum and put a little bit of extra washing in the middle.