Washing pillows

Merlin5

Merlin5

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Today I bought 4 new pillows from Dunelm. A pack of two Fogarty anti-allergy and a pack of two Dorma 'full forever' anti-allergy. I don't have an allergy but since they're advertised as dustmite and bacteria growth resistant I thought it's better to spend a little more.

The old pillows I've got are also Dorma full forever and are still ok, though not quite as plump anymore. I don't want to throw them and I was thinking about washing them. My washing machine is an old Hotpoint with average sized front loading drum. I can shove one pillow in fairly comfortably but doubt it would take two at a time. Or if it did, probably wouldn't do an efficient wash. So it looks like it'll be 4 separate cycles. Anyone here washed theirs before and more than one at a time?
There's also slight yellowing that all old pillows get which I'm hoping a couple of scoops of oxi will remove.

This is mumsnet right? :p
 
How old is the Hotpoint or what model is it? A 5kg+ model should cope with two pillows. I wouldn't try one purely because of the balancnig issues you will probably encounter during the wash - and some of the older Hotpoints don't have out-of-balance protection, so will spin regardless. :eek:
 
darael said:
How old is the Hotpoint or what model is it? A 5kg+ model should cope with two pillows. I wouldn't try one purely because of the balancnig issues you will probably encounter during the wash - and some of the older Hotpoints don't have out-of-balance protection, so will spin regardless. :eek:
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Put a brick, ball bearings or your best China plates to act as a counterweight.
 
Bin the old ones - If you put them away just in case you will never use them and they take up useful space. -
 
DXP55 said:
Bin the old ones - If you put them away just in case you will never use them and they take up useful space. -
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Yeah, I might as well bin them, they're ruined. I washed two of them, one at a time with a few clothes to balance the load. They both washed well but it's what happened to the filling.

The first one has hollowfibre filling. I held it to the light and you can see that it's shredded causing lumps of fibre and various gaps of nothing. So clearly hollowfibre pillows can't be washed. At least, not in my washing machine, maybe my drum is too cramped.



Second pillow has polyester filling. Its all intact but it's flipped a large corner of the inside (bottom left) lol, and I can't straighten it out with any amount of manipulation unless someone knows a trick to doing this.

 
They usually recommend when you tumble dry down duvets etc to throw a couple of tennis balls in to stop it clumping up, maybe give that a try.
 
I don't have a freezer, only an icebox. Don't think it'll fit next to the beefburgers. :p
I didn't actually do any tumble drying, because although it works, it doesn't put any heat out anymore, but I could try it anyway with the tennis balls.
 
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