How to Maintain a Featherbed

When you maintain your featherbed properly, it will give you many years of soft comfort and pleasure. A featherbed also helps to maintain a person's body temperature throughout the night, giving you a restful night's sleep. It is easy to extend its life with proper care.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Featherbed cover
• Vacuum
• Damp sponge
• Clothes line

1. Cover your featherbed with a featherbed cover to keep it cleaner. The featherbed cover is easy to remove and launder.

2. Shake your featherbed vigorously to fluff it.

3. Vacuum your featherbed at least twice a month to maintain your mattress and remove any dust that has accumulated on it.

4. Spot clean your featherbed with a damp sponge and hang your featherbed over a clean clothes line to dry the spot that you cleaned.

5. Hang your featherbed outside on a clean clothes line to air it out every few months.

6. Dry clean or launder your featherbed every few years. Make sure the dry cleaner, or professional laundry, is experienced in the care and cleaning of down items.

Tips & Warnings

• A featherbed provides extra back support for most people because it fills in the spaces that are between the body and the mattress
• A featherbed can help the muscles of the body relax because of its natural warmth.
• You can add additional feathers to your featherbed if it starts to loose its fluff after several years.
• Always refer to the specific directions that come with your featherbed regarding professional dry cleaning or laundering.
• Never treat your featherbed with any harsh chemicals which can cause permanent damage to the featherbed.

Resources

• Go here for tips on caring for other down items