Can I wash my padding blanket in the washing machine and how?

It is quite simple to understand whether a synthetic winter blanket can or should not be washed if there is a label with symbols on it. But if the label has not been preserved, and the blanket is already dirty, then you need to think carefully before wetting it. In this publication, we will talk about washing synthetic winterizer and give some recommendations for caring for blankets filled with synthetic winterizer.

Material Features

The synthetic winterizer is quite unpretentious, it can even be soaked in cold water, and it will not suffer from this at all. True, you should not wet the synthetic winterizer in hot water, intensively tug and expose it to aggressive chemical attack. A gentle wash, even by hand, even in a car, a synthetic winter blanket is quite capable of withstanding. The problem may arise in another, namely, loading the drum of the washing machine.

The fact is that a dry blanket weighs relatively little and the owners of "home helpers" with a load of 5-6 kg, without even thinking, shove them into the drum and hope to wash. Meanwhile, a wet sintepon blanket, while maintaining its former volume, weighs tens of times more. What does this threaten? And this threatens with a breakdown of the washing machine, because an overloaded drum during rotation (especially at high speeds) will quickly become unbalanced, and the mechanism will become unusable. What needs to be done before deciding to wash the blanket in a washing machine?

1. Read the instructions for the machine, see if it can wash voluminous things, if so, then its drum is most likely suitable for wet laundry with a lot of weight.
2. An overloaded drum should not rotate at high speed, maximum 200-300 revolutions.

Important! Even if you own a washing machine with a volume drum and a large load of 12-15 kg, these rules do not lose relevance for you.

3. When washing a synthetic winter blanket, it is necessary to turn off the spin and drying modes, since they will definitely destroy the synthetic winter blanket.

Sintepon, being a synthetic fiber, in care is very similar to another filler - holofiber. About, how to wash a holofiber blanket in a washing machine, you can read in the eponymous publication of our site.

Instruction manual

If there is nothing difficult for your washing machine to wash a sintepon blanket, do it, but first study the recommendations of specialists so that you do not inadvertently ruin anything.

• Pull out and rinse the powder receptacle; there should be no powder residue or other detergent in it.
• Pour some special laundry detergents from sintepon into the powder receptacle.
• You can only wash an entire blanket, if there are holes in it, they need to be sewn up, and then, folding the blanket several times, twist it with a tube. Only after these procedures can you put a blanket in the drum.
• Close the hatch and set the appropriate washing mode. It can be a “duvet”, “voluminous things”, “gentle washing” or something similar. In this case, the main thing is that the wash takes place in the water no warmer than 40⁰C, and the drum didn't spin too fast.
• Turn off the functions "spin" and "drying", start the washing program. If there is a "double rinse" function, you can put it, so it is better to remove the detergent from the synthetic winterizer filler.
• When the washing program ends, there is no need to suffer and get a wet and heavy blanket out of the drum. Let it lie in the drum for about 1 hour, during which time a large half of the water will drain.

Note! Leaving the blanket in the drum to drain, do not forget to open the hatch door so that the thing does not suffocate and does not start to smell unpleasant.

Now we just have to dry the wet blanket, washing is completed. Automatic washing of a padding blanket is an ideal situation.Very often everything is different, the machine has a small load, and the blanket is too large to shove it into the drum of the washer. What to do in this case? You can wash the sintepon blanket manually, this will require a lot of water and male muscular strength. What are we doing?

1. We collect water in the bathroom 30-40 degrees (about ¼, although everything will depend on the size of the blanket).
2. Dissolve a liquid blanket detergent in water.
3. We sew all the holes that can be found on a synthetic winter blanket.
4. We put the blanket in the bathroom so that it is evenly wet and drowned.
5. We distribute the thing along the bottom of the bath more or less evenly.
6. We climb into the bathroom and begin to stomp around the blanket with bare feet, but we must do this carefully.
7. Having trodden about 20-30 minutes, we get out of the bath and lower the soapy water.
8. Pour cool water to rinse, rinse the blanket, drain the water, and then again draw and rinse again and so on 2-3 times.
9. We release water from the bathroom and leave the drain open. Next, you need to wait 1 hour for some of the water from the glass blanket to drain.
10. Now you need muscular strength to pull the wet blanket out of the bathroom, drag it to dry, and then spread it on this dryer.

How to dry?

Drying a blanket from a padding polyester is much easier than for example a blanket full of fluff or holofiber. A sintepon filler is much less inclined to get lumpy and stick together, but still, when drying a blanket made of such material, it is better to follow simple instructions.

First of all, experts consider drying blankets to be horizontal in the best drying option. The best option would be if you take home the dryer to the terrace, lay it out, make sure it is in a stable position, and spread a wet sintepon blanket on it. In a hot summer, the blanket dries in 4-6 hours.

It is undesirable to place a heater or other powerful heat sources near the dryer. However, if you have a fan heater, we can place it 2-3 meters from the dryer with a blanket and direct a stream of hot air to the thing.

Important! Approximately every hour you should approach the drying blanket and shake it. Also, a couple of times the blanket will have to be turned over, this will help the syntepon filler to dry better and evenly distribute inside.

In conclusion, we note that washing a blanket from a winter pad in a car is not such a difficult task, but only if your equipment is suitable for washing such things. If the washer does not hold the blanket, it can be washed manually. It will take more forces for this, but the result will be better, the main thing is to dry the blanket correctly later, otherwise all the work can go to waste. Good luck