Coverless Duvets

I've bought Night Lark coverless duvets and would never go back to other sorts. When I got my first one I was amazed that something so lightweight could provide enough warmth. Very easy to wash and dry too. I even take mine with me if I am going away anywhere in the UK too. I have never used a hot water bottle since I bought mine either.

Google Fine bedding/Nightlark. Its where I got mine & yes they fit in my washing machine. I have two & wear & wash in turn. They dry in a couple of hours but have not yet put them straight back on the bed but I know others who have! Give them a try!

Skydancer

Sounds like when we had sheets and blankets with a bedspread on top. Does anyone still do that?

We do because we've never found a duvet which is suitable for all weathers (I don't mean we sleep outside!). They're never long enough to stop our feet from sticking out and never wide enough to drape down far enough on both sides to keep draughts out. We went back to sheets-and-layers, adding or throwing off the top one according to the nightly temperature, and have never looked back.

I’m happy to continue using my ‘covered’ duvet. I’m on my own. I change the cover once a week / fortnight- I don’t have a big enough washing machine in which to wash a duvet, so I won’t be buying a coverless duvet.

I did look at these a couple of years ago but found the designs just not for me. Have a king size bed and use a 10.5 tog from October to March. Duvet wouldn't fit in washing machine very well even though large capacity and don't fancy using a laundry evety week. No problem fitting cover, when it doesn't go to plan I consider it a work out!

teabagwoman

TanaMa

I don't have a specific coverless duvet but, since the arthritus in my arms has become so painful, my duvet is put on over the sheet and the duvet cover spread over the top. Doesn't look different!

I’m going to give that a try. I don’t find changing the duvet cover too difficult but anything that makes life easier gives me more energy to do the things I enjoy.

Don't you get all tangled up with all that lose stuff on the bed at night?

I love them, we have the Night Owl ones from the Fine Bedding Company. I found their pattern & colour ranges to be very good. DH and I have a single one each on our super king bed - 10.5 tog in winter, 4.5 in summer. The 2 spare beds have king size ones which do just fit in the new washer but were fine in the old one, both supposedly 8kg capacity! We don't use sheets,not sure where that idea came from. We've been extremely happy with them, I hate all that cover changing nonsense!!

TanaMa

I don't have a specific coverless duvet but, since the arthritus in my arms has become so painful, my duvet is put on over the sheet and the duvet cover spread over the top. Doesn't look different!

I’m going to give that a try. I don’t find changing the duvet cover too difficult but anything that makes life easier gives me more energy to do the things I enjoy.

I've tried coverless duvets. They're fine. You do't really need a cover, you have the most important bit.

Use them when family come as makes life easier . They need to full washcycle not woollen as come out rather wet otherwise .

I've reported on Fine Bedding Company's coverless duvets on a number of threads after getting my first one a couple of years ago. They're brilliant. Straight from bed to washing machine then dry in a tumble dryer in an hour or so and then back on the bed with no bother. I have three now with different patterns and love them. They are so light yet really warm all year round

But mine are King size

I have summer ones and they're fab but will not fit in machine.

I don't have a specific coverless duvet but, since the arthritus in my arms has become so painful, my duvet is put on over the sheet and the duvet cover spread over the top. Doesn't look different!

We have had them for just over a year, and will never go back.
Ours are Nightowl 10.5 tog and are warm enough for us all year. Ours is a double, and just fitted in a standard machine, but we have since bought a larger capacity machine and that is obviously better.
When I wash them I do it first thing in the morning and hang it outside when possible, or drape over our dining table, sometimes with a dehumidifier on in the room, and have occasionally put in in the tumble dryer. Whichever way I’ve washed it it’s always ready to go back on the bed the same day.
I do agree that they are rather dull and boring visually, and would love a manufacturer to bring out a range in a variety of prints!

We have duvets of several TOG ratings, but we still finese by using blankets of different fibres as night temperatures fluctuate so much We do also have bedspreads for warm evenings or sometimes just a sheet

My son uses them in Malaysia! Marvellous there as they are thin but you need just something with air con. Then into the machine and dry in a trice (out there!) often think I might get one or two here in UK especially when I get older.

I’ll keep an eye out in Lidl this summer. I wanted to buy some single ones for our guest beds, (£8 ) but by the time I thought of it, they’d all gone.

Ooh, that is a bargain. If anyone sees them in Lidl again, please post? I will definitely go and buy some for my caravan, which currently has the old duvets from when we upgraded to coverless at home.

I bought mine from Lidl. King size summer weight around £11. One in summer, two in winter. Velcro patches on the corners to keep them together.
They wash and dry easily.
The only problem with buying from Lidl is the Get it or regret it factor. It took 12 months between buying my first one and the second one because when it’s gone, it’s gone.
I only bought one to start with because I didn’t know if it would work, then had to wait 12 months till they got them back in stock the following summer, because they had sold out so quickly.

They say if you keep things for longer enough, they come back into fashion. This applies to eiderdowns too, it seems.

I will be washing my Night Lark superking sized coverless duvet today. Buying it has been one of my better ideas.Life us too short to wrestle with duvet covers.

I don't think anyone is saying that duvets with covers are impossible - people are just answering the questions about coverless ones.

To avoid struggles with duvet covers, I invested about £3.99 in a set of 4 giant clothes pegs from Amazon - the sort people use to stop beach towels blowing away.

Insert one bottom corner of the duvet into the correct corner of the cover, secure with a peg. Repeat with second bottom corner.
Repeat with top corners.
Give a good shake, button up, shake again.
Remove pegs, done.

Claremont

Cossy

Gingster

I don’t fancy taking it to the launderette every 2/3 weeks. We have king sizes

I have mine collected and returned

Interesting - how much though? each time and per year?

I once had a king-size man-made duvet collected, washed and returned. £20 door-to-door. If I did it again I would use a different firm, When returned it was covered with tiny down filaments, so must have been washed in a huge machine along with feather/down duvets, and it smelled strongly of industrial detergent. I vacuumed off the down, and the smell eventually disappeared after a week or two draped over the landing banisters.

However, that was just one experience (I discovered that the "laundry" that did it was just a single bulk washing machine in a back room at an industrial complex) Someone "taking in washing" a a sideline.

I replaced that duvet with a smaller one that I could get into my own machine. Now no trouble washing it myself