Washing a doona

Had a conversation with one of our regular customers yesterday. He asked me about washing his doona and I thought that this might be something quite a few people will have been doing over the past week and weeks to come.

When we get a doona in service washing or I'm washing my own doona, it always gets washed on warm water so as to kill as many germs as possible. Our regular Dexter washing machines (5kg) can fit up to 1 double bed size doona or 2 single doonas. The next size up is the large Dexter(10kg)  and that can fit a king size doona, the next 2 sizes the x-large and the xx-large Dexter washing machines can fit multiples of any size.
Note: It is important to remember that the Dexter front loaders are specifically designed to be fuller than the average home front loader. The rule of thumb I was told by the manufacture was, if the door can close with out you having to force it then the machine is not too full.

When drying the doonas we get in service washing or my own, we put one doona per dryer. We do this because the air flow in the dryer is what dries the washing, the less items you have in a dryer the faster they will dry. With doonas it is very important that they dry all the way through otherwise when you store them over the warmer months they will be very smelly.
The trick that we use when drying doonas is to put a couple of regular tennis balls in the dryer with the doona. We do this to stop the doona becoming clumpy. The tennis balls bounce around the dryer during the drying cycle and break up any lumps that may have formed during the washing process, thus keeping your doona nice and fluffy.

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