How to wash a heavy weighted blanket at home

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   washing the blanket by hand in a bathtub
2. 2
   taking the blanket to a laundromat with commercial-sized washers
3. 3
   taking the blanket to a dry cleaner
4. 4
   hang drying or air drying the blanket outside on a sunny day or indoors
5. 5
   hand wash and squidge it around in the bathtub or large wash tub
6. 6
   go to a laundromat where they have bigger machines
7. 7
   toss in a couple clean tennis balls to keep it from balling up
8. 8
   get them dry cleaned
9. 9
   put a few washable blankets in a cover instead

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.