Down filled sleeping bags

any tips for washing them?

Don't dry clean it. The chemicals may affect it.
Wash on a cold/cool cycle with a mild soap in a front loading machine or by hand in the bath. The bag will soak up a lot of the soap so may need rinsing quite a lot. Don't ring it out to get rid of the excess water, try and be a bit gentle with it.
Dry it out in the open air if you want but I put mine in a tumble dryer on a low heat and do what I was advised to do and that's put a tennis ball or two in with it to break up any clumps.

I've done mine several times over the years but every time I do it, it loses a bit of the fluffiness. Prevention is better than cure though so I use a liner to try and keep it clean for as long as possible.

thanks, just done ours in the family washer on a 30 wash, then took them to a launderette and dried them in the big dryers...came out lovely and fluffy

Totally random I realise and nowt to do with the topic, but I've just noticed you have a fat miner lurking in your avatar photo hillbilly - can you spot him?

the top of the arch????

have a look at these classiclean Harrogate PHD who make down clothing for the arctic use them i have a made to measure bag of there's Ranulph Fiennes uses them you must ring them 01423520930

RLD wrote:

have a look at these classiclean Harrogate PHD who make down clothing for the arctic use them i have a made to measure bag of there's Ranulph Fiennes uses them you must ring them 01423520930

Ray are you missing a link so we can look at them?

the link is Google Classiclean Harrogate dont have the wed site address