How to Get the Cover Back on Ikea Sultan

My husband and I have washed our Ikea queen-sized mattress cover, SULTAN HOLMUSTA. We were able to wash it without shrinking it. :)

I'm going to share with you how we have washed our mattress cover.

You should be careful about the following when you wash the mattress cover...
* never to use hot water. (I think that it causes to shrink your mattress cover.)
* use oxygen bleach. (Washing with chlorine bleach causes to leave bleach smell on your mattress cover.)
* make sure to have at least two people to carry soaked mattress cover as it is extremely heavy.
* dry your mattress cover as fast as possible. (If you take too much time to dry it up, yucky bacteria will grow! Which means the terrible smell stays in it.)

Ikea Queen-sized SULTAN HOLMUSTA

As you can see, this mattress cover is very thick and pretty large.

The care instruction reads, "Clean with upholstery shampoo only." In addition, it seems non-washable and non-dry cleaning. However, we were able to clean our mattress cover with water and oxygen bleach without any problem.

We used OxiClean to wash our mattress cover.

1. How to Wash :  Place the mattress cover in a bath tab. Turn on the water facet and add OxiClean into the bath. Soak the whole cover in water. Let it sit for an hour. Then, step on it for several minutes. Let the water out of the bath. If you can not remove stains enough, do it again until it becomes clean. We did this step four times.

 2. How to Rinse : Fill up the water in bath, and step on the mattress cover. Then, let the water out of the bath. Do it again until water becomes clear. We did this step once.

3. How to Drain Water : Fold the mattress cover in as many as possible. Get on it to remove water. You should remove water as much as possible because it is very heavy due to water. Then hang it on stable pole or something.

I hanged it on our bath room. The mattress cover was still logged. We were very careful not to break the glass.

Adjust the position in order to be taper. In this way, the water comes efficiently out from the mattress cover. Place a bowl underneath the mattress cover.

Effective Way to Drain

If you place the mattress cover like the picture below. I think it takes more time to drain water and your floor will be flood like that.

Ineffective Way to Drain

While draining water, we blew air at the mattress cover by using a fan to evaporate water as fast as possible. After five hours next morning, the water was drained well. :)

3. How to Dry : This is the most important progress. Hang the mattress cover on a stable table. Then, blow air at the mattress cover by using fans. Move fans around the mattress cover every several hours. We dried it up mostly within 24 hours. We were finally able to dry it up in the next 12 hours completely. If you have place to hang it out and outside temperature is high enough, you can dry it outside. (We didn't have enough place to hang it out.)  If you want to dry it inside home, you should use fans because this will speed up evaporation. Drying it up as fast as possible is very important to prevent bacteria growth, which causes terrible odor.

I think you can wash your Ikea mattress cover by yourself, I don't guarantee it though. Be careful because if your mattress cover shrinks, your cover will never fit your mattress.

These are my episodes related to our mattress cover.

(3/9/2013) We Took Our Mattress Cover to the Dry Cleaner

(3/18/2013) Terrible Smell

(4/7/2013) Washing the Mattress Cover

(4/11/2013) We Were Finally Able to Finish Cleaning Ikea Mattress Cover

(4/12/2013) The Cause of Stench from Half-dried Cloth - How to Dry Up the Thick Mattress Cover Properly-

How to Get the Cover Back on Ikea Sultan

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