Washing the blankets in the laundry

What could be better than after a tiring working day, get under a warm blanket and how to sleep properly? The main thing in this business is to make the blanket warm and clean. Warm blankets are many, but how to wash them so that they remain clean?- Try to make sure that the blankets are washed in the laundry or at home often enough, and in the washing machine. Is it possible to wash a blanket in a washing machine at all, and if so, how? We will try to answer these important questions in this article.

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Can a duvet be washed with a washing machine?

Of course, after a very frequent use of a cold duvet on cold nights, the time comes when it is necessary to wash it, get rid of dust, spread out the filler, which has long been knocked into the lump. Down filling is amenable to washing, but in this situation, the housewives will not have to get it and wash it in small batches. The machine is ready to perform all this procedure.

Important! Slightly earlier functional features of washing machines were limited. There were only a few of the most popular washing regimes and among them fluff was not mentioned. It is for this reason that there is still a well-established opinion that it is absolutely impossible to wash a duvet in a washing machine. But at the moment, even in the most inexpensive technique, a whole set of useful functions is built in that can help you determine the necessary temperature regime and the way of processing any material.

General rules or what to think about before washing

In order to understand how to wash a duvet in a washing machine, you should initially pay attention to such important trifles as:

• Labels that are attached to the product itself in production. Knowing the decoding of at least a small number of marking symbols will help you choose the right temperature regime during washing and understand whether high rpm can be used while spinning. Also, you should be ready to refuse to use the washing machine for the time of washing, but this happens in fairly rare cases.
• The size of the blanket. It is likely that it still climbs into the washing machine, but completely does not allow you to close the lid, because it will fill the entire drum. But you must remember that the place to stay must also be for water. So, puzzling whether you can wash a duvet in a washing machine, you need to consider the volume of the tank and the dimensions of your particular product. If they are compatible - then you can.
• Weight of bedding. Duvets are very heavy, when they are sewn a lot of fluff. It must be assumed that normally a blanket will not be washed in any case if it takes up a lot of space in the drum, thereby constantly replacing water, as well as detergents. Therefore, we reason rationally again about the possibility of such an event, based on the correspondence between the size of the tank and the weight of the product.
• The color of the bed linen. In order not to shed the colorful shade of the blanket, do not try to boil it inside the washing machine, especially together with the bleach.

Important! Blankets that are made of fluff are best washed using a delicate mode, where the temperature of the water will warm up and remain at a maximum of 30 degrees.

Explanation of symbols

On factory labels, as a rule, specially coded instruction on correct care of things is designated. There are such symbols that even a child will understand, but you will hardly be able to understand many others at once.

The duvet can in fact be washed, if there is a label on which the washing machine or a bath is depicted. To them are added some values:

• Number in bathroom - this symbol indicates the maximum permissible temperature regime. And the hand in it means that it is possible to wash this product exclusively by hand washing.
• The triangle, which is depicted on the label, will tell the landlady that if you use bleaching agents or detergent, there will be no problems with the thing.
• A circle that is inside a square on a label with one or two points indicates that it is possible to dry this bedding using lower or medium temperatures.
• As for the ironing of the duvet, it is, by and large, not mandatory, the main thing - carefully spread out the fluff.

Important! You must remember that when on the label of the product a cross is indicated on any one of the icons, this definitely means that this method of drying, washing or ironing can not be used in any case.

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Can still dry cleaning?

The simplest and best option is to take your downy product to a dry cleaner, thus, to remove all responsibility for the purity of this material. Professional dry cleaners probably know better how to handle these things, and the equipment from these firms is not represented by just one automatic machine.

Important! It will be difficult to erase such things by hand, and the result may well be completely unpredictable: the fluff will fail, and in order to decompose it, you will have to rip open the blanket.

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How to properly wash a duvet with a washing machine?

Before putting the blanket inside the drum of the washing machine, regardless of whether the blanket is being washed in the laundry or at home, it would not be superfluous to pre-soak it inside a sufficiently large container( at home - in the bathroom).This is necessary in order to approximately determine the weight and dimensions of your blanket.

Preparation:

1. Put the blanket in a sufficiently large container, which will be filled with water in combination with vinegar in small quantities. A few spoons will be enough.
2. Approximately 10-15 minutes. You can leave the laborious process, so that the blanket is thoroughly absorbed by water and at the same time cleared due to the effects of vinegar.

Important! If you plan to wash the blanket in the laundry and there are no such conditions for soaking, skip this step. But for the washing itself, choose a more voluminous and roomy unit.

The correct washing sequence:

1. After the manipulation with the soaking of the duvet, you can place it in the drum of the washing machine, select the washing mode corresponding to your material.
2. Then you should use a special liquid detergent, so-called, shampoo for washing, which perfectly replaces all known powders. This shampoo is sufficiently absorbed into the fabric structure at the very beginning of the process and is also quickly washed out at the end.

Important! With the use of washing powder, it is often impossible to effectively wash a blanket. There are unpleasant white stains on the fabric, the chemical odor remains for a long time because the product has not been completely washed out of the filler.

1. Once the washing process is complete, you can start an additional rinse.
2. Press the blanket with your own hands, despite the fact that this is quite a labor-consuming and lengthy process, but there will be less problems with drying.

Drying

1. You can spread a blanket in your room on a clean, slightly elevated surface so that the water gradually drains.
2. It is permissible to remove product to fresh air.
3. Periodically turn it from one side to the other so that it dries evenly.
4. Slightly beat with hands so that fluff or feather inside is distributed evenly, without forming lumps.
5. If the blanket is washed in the laundry, it is possible to use a special cabinet to dry it, maximally straighten the product when stacking it on the shelf.

Important! A high quality pen is dried in the shortest possible time, which is why very soon you will be able to use your bedding again.

Strictly speaking, many who do not know how to properly wash a duvet with a washing machine, so that the flu does not get lost. It is for this reason that most housewives are boldly mistaken for hand washing, in order not to jeopardize the product. Proper care of bed linen will ensure you a quality sleep.