Are you interested in learning more about how to wash a duvet cover? Or are you simply considering buying one & are trying to find as much information as you can before making a purchase? Let me just say that you have come to the right place where you will learn all that you need without a need for further reading.

 

I will not lie to you, the washing a duvet cover is not at all difficult. However, most people have been misled by amateur writers who are trying to make a buck online. Below I will walk you through a few steps that you should follow when trying to clean up your duvet cover. Even if it’s one with a specific color like: light purple duvet cover, high end red duvet covers and microsuede duvet cover

The first thing you need to do is read the label very well i.e. the care label, which normally comes with the duvet cover. Some of them will show that you need to use only dry cleaners. Never ignore this caution – unless you don’t mind to have a shrinkage, which will result in reduced size that won’t fit over the comforter.

Okay so if you find that the label says nothing about dry cleaners and thus mention hand washing then you are ready to clean it up yourself.

Check to see that there are no stains that you will may have to pre-treat. You can do this by using a stain remover, which normally sits for up to 10 minutes. You can keep it longer if you want so that you give it enough time to soak into the material. Before you do your pretreatment I strongly advise that you read the label on the stain remover product for some specific instructions. What you must know regardless of what the instructions say, do not let the stain to dry.

After that you can then go ahead and use your home washing machine. When putting in make sure that you spread the weight evenly across. If you simply stuff it then the load will just go off balance and the cleaning process will not be as successful. You may need to stop the process and adjust the weight if it happens to go off balance. I won’t go through the details of setting up your machine here because you probably know it better than me.

Now once the washing is done, take it out and check if all the stains are gone. If there are some traces of stains then try to pre-treat again. Once you are happy with the output then dry it up with your usual dryer but make sure that the heat setting is set to low.