Cloud 9 How to wash?

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by DvlshAngel985

Hey all you cloud 9 lovers out there! Is there a special way to wash the cloud nine without hurting or ruining it? Kaji got one recently (Thanks P and Uni!!) and it needs a bit freshening up. Any tips or advice? Thanks!!

Once you do wash & dry yours, you will love how it puffs right back up and is like new again. Tibbe loved it after I shook his out, too, when it was all big and tall.

[Lap Princess]

Mine is faux fur, and i wash it on delicate cycle with warm water, then dry on permanent press. Never had a problem. Comes out like new!

[DvlshAngel985]

Sucess!!!! Our Cloud 9 is a giant fluffy perfection again. Just need a clean puppy to match.

[Doodlebug]

I totally get it about the antique washing machine. I used to have one of those until I got married. Luckily my hubby came with a newer washer and dryer.

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Linda, I tried every combination from one to 6 towels to try to balance that dang machine! Was too scared finally to keep it up but it's not your's or the design's fault - it's that old machine. It's a true working antigue. It was my mom's and from when I was a teenager! An old Kenmore and from our old home from when I was young. I love the old thing and it's only been repaired 3 times in all of these years and works like a charm from my kid brother's school clothes to my things now(!) except for on that big ball of polyfill. BUT IT IS THE MACHINE - not your YHR Cloud 9. It's a machine from the 1960's and amazing that it works at all and it does. I told my mom I would always use it and I do! Just doesn't have the spin ability to handle this situation for some reason. Amazing it still works after the lifetimes and moves it's been through!

As soon as it "dies", we're getting Tibbe a new Cloud 9 bed in a heartbeat!!!!!!!

I totally relate to your washing machine walking and bouncing around. We had one like that and drove me insane. It would even walk off the ledge in the basement and make a terrible racket. It finally gave up and went to washing machine heaven. Our newer washing machine has not had one problem washing the Cloud beds so there is future hope!

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Doodlebug

I totally get it about the antique washing machine. I used to have one of those until I got married. Luckily my hubby came with a newer washer and dryer.

Originally Posted by Lisa and Pic

I totally relate to your washing machine walking and bouncing around. We had one like that and drove me insane. It would even walk off the ledge in the basement and make a terrible racket. It finally gave up and went to washing machine heaven. Our newer washing machine has not had one problem washing the Cloud beds so there is future hope!

When my old machine finally, finally gives up the ghost, there is hope! Can't believe the same machine that washed our clothing when I was a kid is still working for me and mother and daddy gone, my brother working with Indian treaties for the gas company in a southwestern state and I'm essentially retired now. Hard to believe the old "girl" still going, still working, hardly has EVER broken down!

[TxVicki]

I have never had a problem washing mine. I wash two at the same time and then put them in the dryer and they come out so very nice.

[MomtoJasper]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Of course I wash it with towels but I can't get enough in there to keep it from causing my machine to make the worst noise jerking it off center as it spins, no matter how many big towels I stuff in there. I have to add 6 or 7 big towels and it got to be too much trouble and wearing of my towels to re-wash towels and dry them that often. Sob. My old machine just isn't up to it! Hated to lose our Cloud 9 bed but after 4 washes, we had to throw in the towel. Tibbe missed his Cloud 9 so much for so long.

Yes, I bought it from YHR. Loved that bed. It let Tibbe lay up high off floor and still have lots of "nesting" material to dig around on. Soft as a cloud, too!

Have you tried maybe washing a bed pillow with it? I dont have one yet, but I'm sure that is what I will use.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by MomtoJasper

Have you tried maybe washing a bed pillow with it? I dont have one yet, but I'm sure that is what I will use.

A pillow is a great idea!!

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by MomtoJasper

Have you tried maybe washing a bed pillow with it? I dont have one yet, but I'm sure that is what I will use.

It's an old machine so just a little afraid to wash too many big things together in it. Towels are about my limit for it and that scared me. My towels are so big and heavy they carry a lot of size and weight but I never could get just the right amount in there to offset the size and weight of that wet polyfill ball so the spin cycle wasn't scary for breaking. Oh, well.

I gave the bed to a rescue who I am sure has nice, modern machines for washing their dogs' beds and no doubt the dogs there are getting some very good use out of it. Tibbe did search for it for days after it was gone, though. We kept it up against the front of the couch in the den and he could sleep on it and still be near me here on the couch. I stacked pillows there but he wasn't as happy with them and wouldn't use them at all, finally gave up on sleeping there after he'd go to get on his Cloud 9 bed and just saw pillows instead. I got a lot of stinkeye looks for taking his favorite bed! Thankfully he finally adjusted to it not being there and let up on checking for it, glaring at me!