Greetings all! I am interested in your experience with storing down bags, quilts, garments. The standard answer I see is, “store your down ‘gizmo’ in the uncompressed state.”
HOWEVER, as a mechanical engineer, that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. From an engineering standpoint, I’d wager that is actually the number of compression / uncompression cycles that cause degradation in loft. If that is correct, every time you come home from a trip and decompress your “quilt”.... then compress it again before its next use.... you are essentially running the garment through an unnecessary (and un-handy) compression cycle.
To be clear, the above is completely predicated upon the assumption is that the down is dry. If it’s wet, it clearly needs to be decompressed to allow air circulation for drying. Otherwise... mold and such will do it’s evil work.
I’m very interested in hearing your experience. Often, things that are taken as “the gospel” aren’t necessarily true... just handed down from generation to generation. Thoughts?
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