How do I clean a down comforter besides dry cleaning it?
Question:Without ruining it, how can you clean a big, high-quality down comforter? Is it even possible? I want to make it white again! (I should have used a duvet, but haven't.) My mother suggested oxyclean. I'm just wondering if anybody has tried any particular method that has worked...or any that did not work and I should definitely NOT try!
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It really is best to have it professionally cleaned, especially since it's high quality. If you absolutely have to wash it:
Wash it in a large commercial, front-loading washer. Use the largest one they have. Front loaders don't use agitators.
If the fabric is old, it could be weakened from age. Be careful.
It will take a long time to dry, up to three hours, in a large commercial dryer. Take it out frequently to fluff it up. Put a couple of tennis balls into white socks and put them in the dryer to help avoid clumping.
As you want to keep the down dry, get the material and make a new container, then transfer the down from the old to the new. ~
Next time use a duvet!
put it in dryer with dryell - it's like dry cleaning but less costly.
K
i washed mine out in the bath tub.you could use laundry det and oxyclean. it may take several times until you get it clean. just keep letting the water out and refilling it. (try to squeeze as much wate out as you can between each fill.) when you think you have it clean rinse it the same way making sure you (squeeze as much water out as you can in between each fill.) if you like add fabric softener to the last fill.then drain get as much( water out) as you can.if you don't it will be very heavy. hang it on you line to dry. try fluffing it now and then while it is drying. this worked for me i hope it works for you.
Its best to dry clean. I dont know how much it is where you are but it's really not that expensive here. Between 10 and 15 dollars. In the future get a duvet cover that you can wash in the laundry to save your comforter. If you really cant make it to the dry cleaners I like the idea earlier with the tennis balls in the wash with it. That is the advice I would take.
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