Washing Dog Bed

aardvaak · 15 August 2019 at 3:41PM

I have a very large (too large to go in washing machine) dog bed not made of hard plastic but made of a soft material and waterproof.

It does not have any zips to take the cover off - if it did I could wash in the machine.

I have had it a number of years and is now very dirty.

How do I clean it?

neilmcl · 15 August 2019 at 3:50PM

Find a bigger machine, your local launderette for example., or wash it by hand.

Cisco001 · 15 August 2019 at 4:31PM

self-service launderette

jk0 · 15 August 2019 at 5:20PM

I wonder if you could carefully unpick the stitching, and put a zip on it?

poppellerant · 15 August 2019 at 5:27PM

I wash my dog bed in the bath as it would be silly to expect the washing machine to properly clean something of that shape properly. After a rinse with water, I then pop it in the washing machine for a quick spin before hanging it on the line.

ka7e · 15 August 2019 at 5:59PM

I have a couple that I scrub with bio washing powder and then hose them down. The material is like waterproof canvas, but if the filling gets really wet they weigh a ton and take days to dry.