How often should you clean the shower mats in front of your showers, better known as shower rugs, how often are you supposed to clean those? Before you answer that, let’s take a look inside the shower, and if this is what you’re standing on when you get out of the shower and you step on that, you’re transferring everything that was on the bottom of your feet in this shower onto the rug. Ooh. So the shower itself is designed to get us wet, right? We have lots of water that pours on the shower itself is designed to get us wet, right? We have lots of water that pours on top of us. Then when we get out of the shower, we transfer all of the water that’s dripping from us onto the mat. And depending on how many people in your family take a shower and step out on that same mat every day, it’s possible that there’s no time in between for the shower rugs to dry out. One of the best ways we can solve this problem is to bring our towel inside the shower before we get out and dry off completely before you step out onto the bath mat. That will keep your bath mat much drier.
So how often should you clean your bath mats? Well, for vacuuming, it should be two to three times a week. And if your bath mats are getting wet every single day, the rule of thumb is once per week, it should go in the washing machine. Now, many mats have a rubber backing on the back that we got to be careful of when we put that in high temperatures, in both the wash and the dryer. One of the tips that we’ve learned as far as preventing mold and mildew is to hang up the bath mat between each shower or bath, either on a railing over the door of the shower itself or over the edge of the tub. And a trick that we learned from the hotel industry was, we learned that by using a bath mat made of the same kind of material that towels are made of, it can go inside the washing machine with a regular load of wash.