Hi
My 3year old son has got a coat that begins to need a wash. It's a puffy coat and my washer's a top loader so I'm a bit unsure if it's vice to wash it in it? I thought of hand washing it, it's not that big, and dry it in the drier afterwards, I thought of soaking it in the sink a little while and mabye spin it on delicates cycle in the machine before puting it in the drier, would that be safer? What would you reccomend? It's in one colo onlly so I don't fear bleading.
Hi again
and thanks for your answers
Yeah things often ends up solving itself
The washing went well, I talkt to a friend aswell and ended up using the washer.
I was a little bit unclear, what I meant I was unsure if I should use the washer since I’ve heard that the agitators in a home washing machine is too rough in the down filling and can break it up inside the garment, but using an delicates setting with cold water andagitation workt great.
I did more or less like this, since its down filled (it has nylon shells) I went with a delicates seting, I used woolite and cold water. I filled the washer and added the jacket, as I was soon to find out getting a down coat completely wet is hard! Air pockets in the garment kept popping up, and when you pushed one down you could be sure another would popp up . The boy was with me and found it hilariously fun off course, ok I have to admit I found it a bit fun myself to.
After beeing working it down, I ran the machine partway through the cycle and turned it off, I pushed down some new air bubbles and let I soak for awhile.
I also stoped it aproximately midway through the rinse cycle and squeezed out some new air bubbles with the boy extaticly watching.
After it was spun I beeing quite nervous J opend the lid and took it out, and omg it looked soggy and flat, before freaking out I put it in the drier with a coupple of tennis balls and put it on a low heat setting, nervously checking it from time to time and shaking it, and luckily enough it came out great, thank god.
I agree to look at the tag, it should give you the best advice. But most kids coats are machine washable. The fluff is often down, which does well with washing and drying on low.
Kids coats are usually made to wash in the washing machine and dry. Of course the label gives the directions but most of the time, unless if was leather, it goes in the washer with some other things so it won't spin and get unbalanced, I usually try to wash a couple of coats together or some other semi light weight items. Then it goes in the dryer on low or medium heat with a dryer sheet so he won't have tons of static and crazy hair when he puts in on.
Silly question, but are there washing instructions on the coat?
You may want to consider washing it at the laundrymat in a front load machine, then you could bring it home and put it in your dryer. I would set the dryer to medium heat.
What does the label say? I've washed "puffys" on the delicate cycle before without a problem. They magically reform in the dryer. However sometimes they dont ;( It's kind of a gamble.
I would wash and dry it on delicate.
If the care instructions say it's machine washable then wash it in the machine just as you would anything else that's machine washable. I wash my down jacket that is made of nylon or polyester and filled with real down in the washing machine and dry it in the dryer with dryer balls. You can use clean tennis balls or athletic shoes to help redistribute the fluff tho if it's polyester fiber fill you probably won't need them. I've washed jackets in both top and front loaders.
I don't understand what you're concerned about. I do know you can't hand wash it and machine dry it because you can't wring out enough water to get the coat dry in a dryer.
You can soak it in sink and spin dry it on delicate but that might not get enough water out, either.
I've been washing fiber and down filled coats and jackets in machines and drying in the dryer for years and they always come out looking like new.
If the tag says hand wash only or dry clean only then I do suggest you dry clean it but I've never seen a puffy coat that couldn't be machine washed. I don't understand why a front loading machine would be better. I had top loaders for years and jackets/coats always turned out well. The front loader will spin them dryer which would mean drying time would be less but not enough less to make the cost of going to a laundromat worth it.
Look at the tag inside the coat. All garments have care instructions on the tag inside.
