by R. Renee Bembry

Created on: September 21, 2009

Shower curtains disconnected at corners or dangling in mid sections where they are not supposed to dangle can easily distract from the appearance of otherwise perfectly decorated bathrooms. For this reason, shower curtains that dangle where they should not dangle can be quite annoying for decorators. You do not have to live with dangling curtains in your bathroom, however, nor do you have to replace them. All you need to do is learn how to repair shower curtain holes.

Repairing shower curtains with pesky holes is easier and more practical than replacing shower curtains. Much more, repairing torn shower curtains is easy, relatively inexpensive, and sometimes comparable to repairing holes in sheets of binder paper.

In cases of binder paper repairs, or repairs involving any paper with holes punched for binders, you repair holes using self-adhesive reinforcement discs. Basically, these discs are donut shaped pieces of paper that are sticky on one side. The sticky sides are moistened and applied on one or both sides of the paper just around the hole areas. Then when the paper is placed in binders, it stays around the rings as opposed to falling away from them.

Since shower curtain repair materials must be waterproof in order to withstand the test of time, shower curtain hole reinforcement discs, called "savers", are made from plastic rather than paper. These discs are a great investment because not only can they repair torn curtain holes, they can prevent curtain holes from tearing in the first place.

For prevention, simply attach curtain savers around shower curtain holes prior to hanging curtains. If you have already hung your curtains, you might want to take them down and add shower curtain savers to them especially if you have children. Children are more likely than adults to tear shower curtain holes when showering because they cannot reach the uppermost parts of shower curtains. Thus, they are more likely to tug curtains from mid to lower levels in ways that pressure holes against curtain rings.

Shower curtain savers come in packs of twelve, which is the number of holes punched out in standard shower curtains; and you can find them online for less than four dollars per pack. You might want to get two packs, however, because just as when you repair binder notebook paper, you may want to reinforce each side of the curtain with a disc. This strengthens repairs and makes tear prevention more full proof.

Another method of shower curtain repair involves using strong

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