Duvet smelling fresh?

spankymonkey_2

i use my fabric conditioner mixed with water in a pump spray and then hang it on the line, works fine smells lovely and fresh!!

MrsMW

Afraid I'm the same as curry queen. I got so fed up of struggling to fold the duvet up and store it away that I now buy a new one twice a year. I only pay £4.99 for 4.5TOG and £7.99 for 10.5. We only like the polyester ones anyway because I'm allergic to feathers.
On a good moneysaving note though I found lots of uses for the old duvet from dogs bedding to plant protectors. I have also made pet beds and given them to the dog rescue place.

mhoc

Curry_Queen wrote:

Not very money saving I know but I buy new duvets twice a year as I don't have anywhere to wash/air the current ones

Yes, at least for the childrens ones I change them every year, the ordinary polyester ones are cheap enough. Probally more hygienic anyway. In the meantime I hang them out on the line on dry days to air (the problem there is finding a dry day and also finding a day when the washing lines are not groaning already with washing!

Mary

Nile

MonkeyGirl wrote:

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can make the duvets smell nice and fresh? I wash the sheets etc but can't fit the duvet in the washing machine and dont want to take it to a dry cleaners so just wondered if anyone had any tips? As I love it when my bed smells all nice and fresh and has that *just washed* smell and feel to it. Dont get me wrong the duvet doesnt smell smell it just doesnt smell fresh when the cover isn't on. Hope that makes sense.

Thank You

MonkeyGirl

We have a winter duvet (down & feather) and a summer duvet (synthetic) for our bed.

When the summer finally:rolleyes: arrives and there a few hot/dry days, the winter duvet is washed twice (two wash cycles) in a launderette using Ariel automatic powder. It is tumble dried in the big launderette dryers, then hung on our washing line during the day for a couple of days or until completely dry/aired.

The summer duvet is on the bed for the brief summer, then it's washed/dried and put away until needed next year.

Galtizz

I was going to recomend going to the launderette too. They have really big machines.

Be careful about drying them in a tumble drier though. Some duvets outers (not the stuffing) are made from polyester type material which can melt if put in the drier for too long on too hot a heat so I'd either check with your local friendly Dot Cotton or just put it in for a few minutes and check it. And I would do as Nile said and hang it on the line for a couple of days after it's been done in the drier.

I speak from experience, I used to work in a launderette and I once melted a customers duvet by accident :eek: (I bought them a new one).

After that any I wasn't sure about I washed and hung in the drying room (a really warm room like a sauna but not quite so hot) until it was dry (takes about 4 days to be sure it is completly dry)

HOLsale

squeaky wrote:

I did the old grape treading job on mine in the bath. Mid summer, so I could give it a good blast of sunshine to dry it out properly, and when I didn't really need to sleep under my duvet anyway. Hard work though!

when we lived on skye the last house we lived in had no washing machine and no connections for one either. the nearest laundrette was 30 miles away in portree so a bit much to be doing our laundry each week!

but in the shed we'd found an old mangle fitted onto a board that just so happened to fit perfectly across the bathtub

so we'd fill up the bath with cold water the first time and add about 2 loads worth of wash in

they'd soak then be rinsed/trampled and soaked again this time with soap

all in all they'd get rinsed and soaked about 4 times each time with me or dh donning a pair of wellies to do 'the welly dance' on the clothes to make sure they got clean

then they'd go through the mangle to squeeze the water out

that mangle was amazing, even the top machines with their 1800rpm can't touch a mangle for squeezing out water! they'd be practically dry when they came out.

then out on the line, where it was so windy i could even dry clothes on a rainy day if it was just drizzling!

hard work but a good system all in all i was in really good physical shape back then i can tell you

CapricornLass

I invested in a silk filled duvet  - it was seriously ouch! but worth every penny.  Its hypo allergenic, and just needs to be aired a couple of times a year.  Job done