Duvet cover hell.

[kittyP]

This sounds like a pretty good ruse for getting out of jobs you don't want to do.

Na. Tbh he does virtually everything in here but it's the one thing he can't bare and fair enough!

 

[spanglechick]

i hate doing it as well. i struggle with it due to arm-span and king-size, but i won't usually let OH help as although he does it quickly he also does it haphazardly and tends to put it in side-ways and not bother to fix it so i have to do it anyway. even best efforts usually mean a section of cover without duvet inside it, we plan to get a replacement duvet soon as my mum sells them and i'm hoping a newer duvet will fit better!

i sometimes use hair clips to secure the corners and get OH to shake though, proper shaking is the only way to do it.

are you married to my husband?

 

[_angel_]

Pah!
Had to do this millions of times as a cleaner and chambermaid.
It was shitter than anything else mind. I don't have a duvet.

 

[quimcunx]

I prefer duvets to tucking sheets and blankets round the mattress.

 

[teuchter]

Pah!
Had to do this millions of times as a cleaner and chambermaid.
It was shitter than anything else mind. I don't have a duvet.

So even the professionals don't have a solution.

 

[_angel_]

So even the professionals don't have a solution.

Been mentioned already, get it inside out grab the ends of the duvet and unfurl it. Still requires a lot of luck and swearing. We have blankets here for a reason.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If you are very short, like me, they're a pain.

Yep, and I have no intention of standing on bed to shake it down as I know I'll fall off bed

I lay duvet cover on bed or floor, scrunched down sort of, get duvet into top corners and attempt to shake, put it back on bed, get bottom corners in, turn it upside down and shake to get corners back up to the top. Then I go to the top, and feel around for the corners that have gone astray, and try to tease them into the corners of the duvet cover.

It's a pain in the arse and I'm sure things would be easier if I wasn't using kingsize duvet covers on double size duvets

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This could be worth a try if you have same size duvet as duvet cover and you're short

 

[trabuquera]

Putting on duvet covers also turns into the challenge from hell if you have lower-back problems. (and even worse if you're short as well.) double duvet + cover can be heavier than you think, and there's something about the combination of the necessary holding out arms at arms' length and semi-mexican wave to shake the thing out which is almost guaranteed to worsen back pain by 500000% for a few seconds at least.

It's another one of those tasks which is nothing when yer young and hearty but which probably gets loads harder with age as well.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Putting on duvet covers also turns into the challenge from hell if you have lower-back problems. (and even worse if you're short as well.) double duvet + cover can be heavier than you think, and there's something about the combination of the necessary holding out arms at arms' length and semi-mexican wave to shake the thing out which is almost guaranteed to worsen back pain by 500000% for a few seconds at least.

It's another one of those tasks which is nothing when yer young and hearty but which probably gets loads harder with age as well.

The sensible thing of course would be to have a sheet underneath duvet meaning you don't have to wash duvet cover as often, but sheets strangle me

 

[_angel_]

Seriously fleecy blankets are your friend. You can layer them and they're easily washed/ dried.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Seriously fleecy blankets are your friend. You can layer them and they're easily washed/ dried.

I like duvets unfortunately

 

[lizzieloo]

Never worked as a chambermaid then 8ball?

 

[weltweit]

What do.

1) place the duvet down flat on the bed.
2) place the duvet cover inside out on the duvet so the corners line up and the openning is at the base of the bed.
3) put a hand inside the right hand side of the openning of the duvet and move it up the bed until I get to the right hand top corner.
4) grip the duvet top right corner with my hand from inside the duvet.
5) pull the duvet and cover corner down the bed until it protrudes from the duvet openning (note the duvet openning will now be half way up the bed.
6) move to the left of the bed, insert hand into duvet openning and move it up the bed until I meet the top left corner of the duvet.
7) grip the top left corner of the duvet and pull down the bed until that corner also emerges from the openning in the duvet.
8) grip both corners and pull down, while with the other hand working the duvet cover up over the duvet.
9) walk to the stairs and let the duvet hang from the two completed corners - shake vigorously.
10) return to the bed. Manually put the last two duvet corners into their place in the cover, shake again if required, perhaps from the last two corners.

Job done.

 

[8ball]

Never worked as a chambermaid then 8ball?

The duvet cover thing probably wouldn't be my least favourite domestic chore if I had.

 

[lizzieloo]

The duvet cover thing probably wouldn't be my least favourite domestic chore if I had.

I had to do 20ish in a limited time, and clean the rooms (and be a nanny at the same time).

 

[weepiper]

 

[tarannau]

Jesus h allah, I never knew that such a simple, regular household task could frustrate so many mitten-fingered lossers.

Compared to some of the slow showers on this thread I'm clearly a dextrous duvet ninja.

 

[8ball]

Jesus h allah, I never knew that such a simple, regular household task could frustrate so many mitten-fingered lossers.

Compared to some of the slow showers on this thread I'm clearly a dextrous duvet ninja.

 

[tarannau]

Defeated by duvets. it's a first world dimella for sure. Excuse my lack of sympathy here.

 

[lizzieloo]

I can do duvets and spell losers

 

[wayward bob]

Our bedroom is tiny with a sloping roof. I bang my head just getting out of bed sometimes let alone standing on the fucking thing!!

try making bunkbeds and tucking them in properly while simultaneously being attacked by a dangly solar system and assorted other crap above the bunks and a small hungry leopard whose favourite game is "kill the thing under the blanket" and you'll know dedication to making beds

 

[tarannau]

These desperate duvet dufuses don't deserve decent diction or spelling. See also dimella

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Jesus h allah, I never knew that such a simple, regular household task could frustrate so many mitten-fingered lossers.

Compared to some of the slow showers on this thread I'm clearly a dextrous duvet ninja.

Maybe you're taller than a lot on this thread

 

[wayward bob]

am i the only one that gets a kick out of shaking a duvet into its cover? makes me go all tingly

duvet covers are a piece of piss compared to folding elasticated fitted sheets neatly

 

[Voley]

I suffer from duvet rage too.

 

[tarannau]

Very true. Folding elasticated sheets into any kind of non creasing order is surprisingly tricky. Flicking a bit of loose duvet to fill the cover can be done with a lackadaisical flourish by comparison.

 

[lizzieloo]

am i the only one that gets a kick out of shaking a duvet into its cover? makes me go all tingly

duvet covers are a piece of piss compared to folding elasticated fitted sheets neatly

There is a way of doing this, I saw it on the telly, it was a bit . I just scrunch them up

 

[mao]

 

[wayward bob]

i used to know it but i gave up and just roll them in a ball