What should I do about my shower curtain?

Get one made out of polyester. You just throw it in the wash regularly and it doesn’t get disgusting.

cool, but it stays soaking wet, right??

Yes but it dries very quickly even in high humidity so it should’t be a problem. Where I live now there is a glass shower enclosure and I hate it. So hard to keep clean it was much easier to wash the shower curtain!

You can get a liner of nylon.

@rooeytoo Try CleanShower. It’s a surfactant (sp?) you use daily. It keeps the door clean

Here is an inexpensive fabric liner that you can wash
You can just use the liner or get a nice outer curtain too. I kind of like This One

Use a fabric liner and wash it occasionally.

Sorry to sound stupid here, but please give me the idiots guide to using a fabric shower curtain…

I shower, and it gets soaked. Then I hop out the shower, and I…..?? Wring it out? Repeat 10 times then throw in the wash?

@adir….... I don’t want to wash my shower every day! That is why I liked the poly curtain!!! I will look for that product though but I don’t remember seeing it here.

Just leave it hanging to drip dry.

Soak your existing shower curtain in the tub with a ton of bleach and throw in anything else you want like vinegar, baking soda, et cetera. After you have ignored it for nearly a day go in and get nekkid or roll up your pant legs and stomp on it like you are making wine from grapes. Then fill up the tub with clean water with the curtain still in then stomp it again then run the shower on it then hang it up. Voila a brand new shower curtain.

Worked for me.

Did the skin come off your feet zenvelo???

You can buy a half door that slides onto a bracket at the side of the bath.

Or shower with none. I did for years. It was fine. Shoot the spray towards the wall and use a towel on the floor. I’d either wash it or hang it depending how wet it was.

Buy a curtain that does not outgas, like these. I use three of them ( a copy of the Brooklyn bridge, a clear one, a map of the world that amuses my guests) and none of them get disgusting.

PEVA shower curtains

I am partial to the rubber ducky

The trick is to pull the shower curtain closed and out of the tub so it hangs over the floor and not against a wet surface. I used to give mine a bit of a shake over the tub, last thing, and then pulling it out and draw it as straight and closed as I can so that the folds don’t stick together wet. It should dry enough between showers to not get really disgusting. About once a month, it would need a bit of a wash, so it got tossed in the machine (it was one of those polyester types that took a good washing, but not bleach). If it got really disgusting after being ignored, I used to spray the bottom of it with bathroom cleaner before throwing it in the washing machine and I used a ‘Vanish’ type product to boost the cleaning power. (I think the brand in New Zealand was called ‘Nappy-San’) Hope this helps.

Before putting up curtain:
Make sure bottom of curtain does not touch the ground.
Hem or purchase another if necessary.
Bathroom floors are gonna get wet. That’s the nature of the beast. Constant contact with that wet floor, curtain’s a goner.

During shower:
Vinyl liner in the tub.
Fabric liner outside the tub.
I’m really surprised how many of my guests don’t do this. And people wonder why their shower curtains get gross?

After shower:
Leave both drawn to dry.
Do not push to the side to dry.
Same thing with towels. You really got to open them up to let them dry.

Keep your tub clean, your curtains stay clean.

I was kind of hesitant about using a fabric shower curtain because it just sounds like a bad idea. Wet fabric that you don’t wash on a regular basis? Gross. But it’s been three years or so and I really haven’t had to yet. I’m pretty OCD about checking it too.

@Nimis first you say vinyl curtain in, fabric out. But at the end you say you are using just a fabric liner and it’s fine…? Do I have that right?

@Ltryptophan Whoops, no. Not fabric liner. Fabric layer. (As in, the fabric shower curtain.)

Two layers. The fabric shower curtain on the outside. And the vinyl liner on the inside. And, yes, it seems to do just fine. I’m kind of anal about it though.