This is a very basic post, but I didn’t want to make assumptions that everyone would already know how to do this! I have heard that you can prolong the life of your shower curtain liner by putting it in the washing machine and hanging it up to dry, but I haven’t tried that yet. Instead, this weekend, I picked up a new liner to replace the one I’ve been using.
It’s a fairly simple process to replace the liner. I first unhooked each of my shower hooks – mine work by pressing on the top of the metal hook so that it comes out from behind the clasp.
(Unfortunately, this picture came out a little blurry - that's what I get for taking a natural light shot in my very dark shower!)
Once they were all unhooked…
…I pulled off the old shower curtain liner. Fortunately, none of my rings jumped off the rod!
Then, I hooked on the new liner…
….closed each of the hooks again…
…and voila! I had a clean new shower curtain liner installed!
There seems to be a dispute over how often you need to change the liner – some people think every three or six months, some say once a year, some say only when it’s grody (my word). I think it’s something that you can usually tell for yourself and will differ based on household shower usage and the type of water you have. For me, I changed mine because it was looking a little grody, which was about a year’s usage.
