Exciting articles on the topics of renovation, refurbishment and PVC and its negative effects on the environment and health.
To answer this frequently asked question in a meaningful way, it is necessary to preface something about the name PVC: every PVC floor is a vinyl floor. But not every vinyl floor is a PVC floor.
These three floor coverings are the most common resilient floor coverings. This connects them in some basic properties, but still there are differences, which we will show you in this article.
Floor coverings with PVC have been criticized for decades, especially because they contain harmful plasticizers. We show you why this is so and how you can find PVC-free flooring.
PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a plastic (plastic). One of its most important features is that it can be deformed and kept permanently elastic with the addition of plasticizers (additives). How elastic depends on the proportion and type of plasticizers. This is referred to as soft PVC (flexible PVC).
PVC (polyvinyl chloride) has direct and indirect effects on our health. We refer to indirect as damage to the environment, which in turn affects our health. In this text, we focus on the direct reference and finished products that traders and consumers come into contact with.