Duvet cover hell.

[teuchter]

Superkingsize duvet covers are still not made to standard sizes. Nor are fitted sheets. I don’t personally get involved in changing bed linen, but I am blamed when the duvet migrates to my side of the overlarge cover, which is not something I can actually control.

I don't think any bed linen is actually made to standard size, whatever the lies stated on the labels. This thread was brought to mind last night trying to work out what had gone wrong with a supposedly 200cm x 200cm duvet inside a supposedly 200cm x 200cm duvet cover.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Yes, I admit, confess and confirm that I put them in the wash with the zips open, and have never considered closing them but will do this next time. This may be the first ever time that you have responded usefully to a post of mine. The date, for the benefit of future historians, is the 26th of March 2024.

If closing the zips in the was causes some unforeseen issue then the above statement will be retracted. I will keep thread viewers updated.

I think you'll find it is the law to close zips before putting stuff in the wash. Laundry for vandals

 

[Chz]

if you have zips on your covers then that should have improved point 2. unless you're admitting you don't use the zips when you put them into wash. maybe you could wash your socks separately if this remains an issue

Oh my god, how did I never think of something so blindingly obvious? I mean, I think there are only one or two duvet covers that have zips and the rest are buttons/poppers, but still. Life changing.

 

[A380]

I don't think any bed linen is actually made to standard size, whatever the lies stated on the labels. This thread was brought to mind last night trying to work out what had gone wrong with a supposedly 200cm x 200cm duvet inside a supposedly 200cm x 200cm duvet cover.

That expected picture of your new duvet cover would be childishly too easy a post for me to make…

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh my god, how did I never think of something so blindingly obvious? I mean, I think there are only one or two duvet covers that have zips and the rest are buttons/poppers, but still. Life changing.

being as people use zips / buttons / poppers to keep the duvet in, it's surprising you - generally quite a perspicacious poster - hadn't thought about using them to keep other things out.

 

[Looby]

Superkingsize duvet covers are still not made to standard sizes. Nor are fitted sheets. I don’t personally get involved in changing bed linen, but I am blamed when the duvet migrates to my side of the overlarge cover, which is not something I can actually control.

Turn it round. I have been putting our superking covers on the wrong way for 4ish years and recently discovered this.

The lines go sideways on a superking and the label is on the side too.

I’d bought iron/sew on poppers, duvet clips and I’d emailed the manufacturer to complain.

 

[Pickman's model]

Turn it round. I have been putting our superking covers on the wrong way for 4ish years and recently discovered this.

The lines go sideways on a superking and the label is on the side too.

I’d bought iron/sew on poppers, duvet clips and I’d emailed the manufacturer to complain.

yeh the lines should be horizontal so that the stuffing doesn't bunch down by your toes or up by your shoulders.

 

[iona]

I can usually cope with duvet covers but I borrowed one recently, when mine was in the wash and wouldn't be dry by the evening, and the fucking thing had its opening all down the long side (not getting mixed up, it was a single so easy to tell) with just a couple of randomly spaced buttons near the head end and an insufficient fabric overlap meant to keep the duvet inside. WTAF

 

[Looby]

yeh the lines should be horizontal so that the stuffing doesn't bunch down by your toes or up by your shoulders.

My other duvets are all vertical, it’s just the superking.

 

[Orang Utan]

I have recently unexpectedly discovered a solution to the duvet problem: leave your clean sheets on the stripped bed on the day the cleaner comes and come back to find the bed all made for you.

 

[bellaozzydog]

My daily cabin cleaner infuriates me when they change my linen. They leave the duvet folded in the wrong direction and hold the duvet corners at the open end when they shake the duvet in, leaving me with flappy non duvet at the head end and duvet hanging out the foot end with no buttons zips or any other discernable closing devices

 

[TopCat]

I thought of this thread as I sorted my bed today. I am tall with long arms and it’s easy.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Life hack #437: Instead of washing your duvet cover, simply burn it and buy a new one. They're easier to fit than washed ones, and you get that new duvet feels, like you're in a different hotel every time.

 

[Aladdin]

Just wash duvet covers inside out. Dry them inside out and if you're bothered to iron them..do it inside out.
Then just reach into the 2 far corners and grab the duvet corners through the duvet cover corners... pull it down and shake the cover down. The cover will turn out as you go.
Then make sure the other 2 corners are fitted into their cover corners and Bob's your uncle!
All that's left is to close the cover ..buttons or whatever.

 

[teuchter]

Just wash duvet covers inside out. Dry them inside out and if you're bothered to iron them..do it inside out.
Then just reach into the 2 far corners and grab the duvet corners through the duvet cover corners... pull it down and shake the cover down. The cover will turn out as you go.
Then make sure the other 2 corners are fitted into their cover corners and Bob's your uncle!
All that's left is to close the cover ..buttons or whatever.

This whole thread is about the fact that the fictional process described above is a lie propagated by the duvet cover industry.

 

[Aladdin]

This whole thread is about the fact that the fictional process described above is a lie propagated by the duvet cover industry.

I dont find it difficult putting the duvet cover on the duvet ..

 

[quimcunx]

One of my covers has this sort of opening. Opinions welcome.

 

[Saul Goodman]

One of my covers has this sort of opening. Opinions welcome.

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Cut the seam open at the other end and it'd make a dress for a very large person.

 

[Saunders]

Single duvets are very easy to change and the most comfortable to sleep under.
King sized duvets are annoyingly just off square, so write Long and Short on them and on the inside of the covers hem with a magic marker

 

[Aladdin]

Single duvets are very easy to change and the most comfortable to sleep under.
King sized duvets are annoyingly just off square, so write Long and Short on them and on the inside of the covers hem with a magic marker

Or just do as the Scandinavians do. Only have single duvets.

 

[teuchter]

I dont find it difficult putting the duvet cover on the duvet ..

I wonder how much they pay you to say stuff like this.

 

[teuchter]

One of my covers has this sort of opening. Opinions welcome.

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I don't understand and feel a little distressed by this image.

 

[Aladdin]

I wonder how much they pay you to say stuff like this.

The duvets? They are cash poor

 

[andysays]

I dont find it difficult putting the duvet cover on the duvet ..

That’s just what they want you believe.

You and I and everyone else who claims to be able to fit a duvet to its cover without it becoming a logistical nightmare and spawning a multi page thread are clearly in the pay of Big Duvet.

 

[WouldBe]

Just chuck the whole thing in the washer and keep your fingers crossed the duvet stays in place.

 

[Elpenor]

I used to do it standing up with my hands and head up inside the duvet cover, then walk around like a zombie.

but that was mainly showing off for an audience

 

[story]

I tried the burrito roll method last night.
Not bad.
I’ll stick with this method and see if I can finesse it with experience.

 

[Monte]

Single duvets are very easy to change and the most comfortable to sleep under.
King sized duvets are annoyingly just off square, so write Long and Short on them and on the inside of the covers hem with a magic marker

So the answer is divorce?

 

[AnnaKarpik]

So the answer is divorce?

You can have two people in one bed, but with a duvet each. Makes divorce much less likely imho.

 

[Saul Goodman]

You can have two people in one bed, but with a duvet each. Makes divorce much less likely imho.

It takes a strong marriage to overcome duvet theft.