No more fighting with duvet covers (2 Viewers)

[Rosemary1]

Ours is quite posh!
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What motorhome is that please?

 

[Cheshirecat57]

I‘m 10.5 tog plus a throw
Mrs ’Cat is a zero tog sheet with a fan in case

 

[Littlewheels]

How do you iron them ? Canot sleep in un-ironed sheets!

Why. Do you sleep with your eyes open and the lights on.

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[Geistguy]

You have got to be kidding!
I don't even iron clothes, not sure if we have an iron.
Creases soon fall out when worn. .

This is all getting very technical, can someone please ( in simple terms ) explain what an "iron" is ?

 

[Riverbankannie]

Why. Do you sleep with your eyes open and the lights on.

We all know that the first day out, driving off in the MH for a trip is the best feeling. The second best feeling for me is getting into freshly washed and steam pressure-ironed sheets and resting my head on a similarly ironed pillowcase that night, snug as a bug in a rug!

 

[John Barrett]

What motorhome is that please?

Apo!ogies, but it's a Fleetwood Heritage 560-4 caravan...!

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[The Dotties]

Badknee, can I please ask what motorhome you have. Thanks. Therese

 

[Vipar]

Separate beds separate duvets harmony rules

 

[Janine]

My washing machine won't cope with a single sleeping bag. I think it absorbs so much water, it becomes too heavy to spin.

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[pappajohn]

We all know that the first day out, driving off in the MH for a trip is the best feeling. The second best feeling for me is getting into freshly washed and steam pressure-ironed sheets and resting my head on a similarly ironed pillowcase that night, snug as a bug in a rug!

Doesn't the steam press play havoc with your payload or do you carry a massive stock of sheets and pillow cases...... Or is it a case of sluming it after the first night.

 

[Brains]

We have separate duvets.
SWMBO overheats, I freeze.
We carry 3 single duvets all year around: A 10 tog, a 4.5 tog and 1.5 tog.

In summer I get the 4.5 tog and she gets the 1.5 tog.
In winter I get the 10 tog and she gets the 4.5 tog, with the 1.5 tog as extra cover of either of us if needed

 

[Riverbankannie]

Doesn't the steam press play havoc with your payload or do you carry a massive stock of sheets and pillow cases...... Or is it a case of sluming it after the first night.

They get very neatly folded and put away and come back out quite smooth. On campsite washes, they usually get a tumble dry and then a hang out in the sun and creases fall out a bit.

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[Pusscat]

Have you locked a little man in your cupboard?

Butler…

 

[TDub49]

And they're called a Doona downunder in Oz & NZ.

As a kid we called them Eiderdowns but you always had a sheet under them.

We had eiderdowns and blankets and starched sheets and then along came this heretical invention called a "continental quilt". Damn foreigners and their idiot ideas. . . . . . . .

 

[Harrietliberty]

What max load does your washing machine have? Some are as little as 6kg (ours is 7kg) so do they state what size you need to wash each sized one?

I've just checked ours and it's actually 5.5 Kg (it was my father's so I didn't choose it to be that small). The instructions just say a large machine but if I can wash it in ours, then a 7 Kg one should be fine

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[Trumpton]

Ours is quite posh!
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Good job you were fully dressed when you took the photo

 

[uzsnowdrop]

We had eiderdowns and blankets and starched sheets and then along came this heretical invention called a "continental quilt". Damn foreigners and their idiot ideas. . . . . . . .

What the hell was a counterpane? Anyone remember?

 

[Shrimp]

We have covers on the feather duvets, 4.5 tog, and sheets top and bottom. When it’s hot, we just use the sheets. It’s all about the layers.

We use sheets and a cover on the 7.5 tog King size quilt.
Sheets are washed so cover doesn’t need to be washed every time and a King size quilt makes sure we don’t get cold draughts, then when it’s hot the quilt gets thrown off and use just the sheet!

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[spitfire]

We use sheets and a cover on the 7.5 tog King size quilt.
Sheets are washed so cover doesn’t need to be washed every time and a King size quilt makes sure we don’t get cold draughts, then when it’s hot the quilt gets thrown off and use just the sheet!

Us too

 

[PrettyandFluffy]

They are good aren’t they - thinking of changing at home too - just worried that if I get a super king it might be too much for our washing machine?

Not at all. Been using them in the house and the motorhome for years. I use a 40 degree wash, choose the "extra water" option. A good fast spin prior to putting it out on the line means it will be bone dry later the same day.

 

[Old tart]

2 duvalays for me and him

Do you use a lining inside your Duvaly, please?

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[Ian Bosman]

The pair of us use sleeping bags, mine being heavier than my wife’s as that is how we prefer. Easy to wash, easy to tuck away and do not take up much room. We used to use a duvet but our current solution works well for us.

 

[Lenny HB]

We will stick to covers on the duvets, that way you can remove, wash, air dry, and refit in a day. I wouldn’t be so happy having to wait for two duvets to dry in a day, and would also probably require more washing machine cycles for the process.

Even jumping on it I doubt a full duvet would fit in the portable washing machine we carry in the van & it certainly wouldn't wash very well.

 

[tinkerbell]

We have silk duvets, their great, low tog, warm in winter cool in summer, never need a thick one, they. They fold up small as well to put under seats in van along with pillows, which the up most of the room.

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[houdini]

We have silk duvets, their great, low tog, warm in winter cool in summer, never need a thick one, they. They fold up small as well to put under seats in van along with pillows, which the up most of the room.

Where do you buy yours from please?

 

[spitfire]

We have silk duvets, their great, low tog, warm in winter cool in summer, never need a thick one, they. They fold up small as well to put under seats in van along with pillows, which the up most of the room.

Us too both in the house and van .They are so light but warm in winter and cool in summer as you have said . We do use a top sheet too

 

[Rosemary1]

Apo!ogies, but it's a Fleetwood Heritage 560-4 caravan...!

Ah - thank you - we looked at motorhomes with low single beds but didn’t recognise it. Thanks

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[tinkerbell]

Duvets bought from John Lewis, but you can get them from shows when we can get to them again. I bought 2 pillows from last show maybe 3 years ago now, their great too.

 

[Bustup15]

You have got to be kidding!
I don't even iron clothes, not sure if we have an iron.
Creases soon fall out when worn. .

Apart from in skin

 

[Ian Bosman]

We use single sleeping bags, much simpler as we can each have the weight we prefer.

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