How can I make my dog stop to chew my comforters?
Since my dog was a pup he used to sleep next to me or in my feets, but a few months ago he start to chew my comforter while I was sleeping. I though was some thing about the comforter so I start to use a old one that I had. I have hole on this one too!! I never catch him doing it so I how can I teach him not to do it? What can I Do?
What's with down comforters?
1. A high quality down comforter will last for years, so they are made in white. You are suppose to buy a duvet cover for them so you can switch out the less-expensive duvet's as often as you like without having to buy another $300 comforter every time your taste changes. Cheaper ones or down alternative are the colorful ones. 2. The fact that they are filled with goose down. Do you know how many down feathers from how many geese it takes to fill a comforter? Especially one thats a king or California king? Plus, they are long-lasting and natural and typically the material used to cover them is high quality cotton as well. 3. I personally wouldn't. Down alternative is filled with a plastic-based filler. I know I bought a down alternative pillow once. Supposedly "hypoallergenic", I woke up and could barely breath, and my face had puffed up like a balloon. Much better to go with natural any day. Plus, down alternative will mash down faster, and you will have to replace it quicker. And they tend to "leak" filling. 4. They are natural, warm and a good investment. Figure on replacing your $80 down alternative comforter once a year (they really don't hold up from people I know who've had them, one wash and they're done). Plan on replacing your $300 down comforter every 5 years. You've saved about $100 by purchasing down. Possibly more, depending on if you can find a down comforter on sale at the end of winter and save until next winter, or buy a down alternative at the beginning of fall, when comforters will be most expensive. 5. Down or down alternative comforters are for winter. Either will be much to heavy and hot for summer. They are made to keep you warm. For summer you will want a very light blanket or quilt.
Do you have a black comforter, if so how do you like it?
I currently have a white comforter, and I will never get a white comforter again; it gets dirty too fast. So I was thinking about getting a black comforter, but I heard it gets lint and that it can also look dirty. What's your experience with black comforters?
How to fix a lumpy comforter?
I have a lovely little comforter, and it needed to be washed. I really, really didn't want to wash it because I've had comforters get lumpy from being washed before, but it really needed to be done... so today I washed it. And lo and behold, it's lumpy! Now, I like to sleep on top of my comforter so I can't hide the clumpy cotton by folding it and it's almost winter (brr! So I'll need to sleep under it now!) I've seen some people suggest balls and/or shoes in the dryer as an "easy" solution, but I'm worried this will hurt the dryer. It's pretty old and I'm not sure how much damage it can take. Is it safe for the machine and how well does it really work? And if anyone knows any other way other than kneeding the cotton around by hand--it's pretty painstaking for something like a comforter--I'd love to hear it. Thanks!
Which is heavier, a quilt or a comforter?
Generally speaking, a comforter is heavier than a quilt. They’re both composed of three layers: a top, batting or filler, and a back; those are then sewn together to create a single piece.The main difference between the two is the batting or filler layer. In a quilt, a thin layer of batting, ranging from 1/8” to 1/2” thickness, is used. Occasionally a quilter will use two or even three layers of batting in order to give more definition to the non-quilted areas.In comforters, however, a very thick layer of filler is used so that the comforter is thick and puffy. There’s also much less quilting, generally just enough to hold the three layers together. As a result, comforters are heavier and bulkier than most quilts.I hope this answers your question!
Can you put a duvet cover over a comforter?
Do you mean putting a comforter inside a duvet cover, or just laying a duvet cover physically on top of a comforter?As far as putting a comforter inside of the duvet - Yes, you can, and you absolutely should! A duvet cover protects your comforter, and keeps it clean. The cleaner is stays, the less often you have to wash the comforter. By far, the single thing that reduces a comforter’s life is how many wash and dry cycles you put it through.As far as placing the duvet cover on top of the comforter…Again, you can, but there are better options.For the majority of duvet covers, you can also purchase the corresponding flat sheet, which will feature the same pattern as the duvet - at less than half of the cost of the duvet.If you are looking for the thickness that a duvet offers with it’s two layers, you can also opt for a “top cover”. A top cover is a single-layer sheet, like a flat sheet, but with a bit more substance to the fabric.
How often do high end hotels wash bed comforters?
Jeff has the right idea. I use alcohol wipes on the phone and the TV Remote and carefully put the comforter and any pillows with sewed on covers into the closet. 5 star properties 99% of the time did clean all bed covers at the end of each guests stay. But as stars go down so does the cleaning rate of items not meant to come into direct contact with a guest's skin.The hardest part of training maids, room inspectors, and housekeepers is to get them to look up and to look under and inside of drawers every time a room changes over. The next hardest thing to do is to convince them that if a guest put something somewhere in the room that is where they expect to find it after the room is cleaned. So if the bathroom counter is covered with a women's products you tell the maid she should look at them, remember the order they are in then clean the counter and neatly replace the guest's items in the same order they were in when the maid first saw them.I had an experience once where I sent the head housekeeper of a 500 room hotel to inspect a room that I had reserved for one of the hotel's most important guests - this person brought several million dollars of group business to the hotel each year. She reported back that the room had been given the VIP double cleaning treatment and was ready for the guest. I decided that I would deliver the arrival gift to the room my self and do the final inspection. Now this room had three maids in it and the head housekeeper inspect it twice but when I got there all of those professionals had failed to look up and hanging from the chandelier in the dining room was a used condom. Moral of the story: leave nothing to chance in the hotel business.
Does a comforter warm like a quilt?
Does a comforter warm like a quilt?In my opinion, it depends on what the comforter and the quilt are made of.Short answer, it certainly can.Comforters are typically very fluffy, and are usually filled with a stiffish polyester batting. It doesn’t quite have enough weight, typically, to wrap around the body well. However, once a certain amount of warmth has accumulated, the polyester batting keeps heat in very well.A quilt could be constructed like a typical comforter with a lofty polyester batting, in which case it would function much like a comforter.However, a quilt typically has lower-loft cotton batting. After several washes, the quilt typically “drapes” better, and it’s easier to tuck in around your body. However, because it’s not as thick as a comforter, it’s typically not as warm. And it doesn’t trap heat as well as polyester. On the other hand, depending on how complicated the piecing is on top, you might essentially have 4 layers of fabric sandwiching the batting. So it can be surprisingly heavy.A quilt could also use wool as batting. In this case, the quilt will do an excellent job keeping warmth in and be very soft and drapeable despite not being as thick as a comforter.The problem is the wool batting is expensive. And it shrinks in subsequent washings if dried with heat. Some quilters don’t like the aesthetics of a shrinking batting because it could distort and obscure the surface design of the quilt top. Not to mention the quilt itself would get smaller and smaller as time goes by and unless somewhat big to begin with, it could become a bit small for its purpose of covering the whole body.When you have wool of any kind, it dries pretty slowly and can be a bit smelly while damp. So drying it without a dryer is sort of impractical if you live in a humid climate.
Are you suppose to sleep under the sheets or under the comforter?
Rock. Yeah, you use the sheet to keep your comforter clean. Thats the "classy" way to do it ;) Plus some sheets have a very high fibre count which makes them smoother and more comfortable. If you are too hot, buy a thinner comforter. You can also buy a throw-type blanket that you put on top of your thin comforter if you get cold. I dont mind tap water.. I switched to filtered years ago.
What is a throw and comforter as opposed to a blanket?
A throw is for decoration.A blanket is a bed covering used for warmth. Blankets are usually a single layer made from woolen material.A comforter is also a bed covering used for warmth, but it is made of two layers of fabric sewn together with a layer of insulating material between them. The insulating material may down, feathers, wool, cotton, or synthetic batting.A blanket would typically be used in the summer, while a comforter would be used during cold weather. (This depends on one’s personal preference. Allergy sufferers often sleep in a very cold room to help keep their sinuses open.)For hygiene reasons, a blanket or comforter should always be on top of the sheets — as sheets absorb dirt, sweat, and oil from the skin, so they should be washed weekly.Blankets & comforters can be washed less frequently — every 3 months is fine, unless you have pets sleeping on top of the bed with you.