What is vinyl?

Today, many praise vinyl wallpaper, although some consider them harmful to health. Let's see what vinyl is.

What kind of substance?

From information provided by manufacturersthese wallpapers, you can find out that vinyl is a hydrocarbon radical. It can also be regarded as a substance derived from ethylene. However, in the composition of vinyl, one hydrogen atom was removed. The composition also includes vinyl chloride, vinyl acetate, as well as all other acrylates. This substance is very similar to colorless plastic.

In the trade of vinyl is called PVC (polyvinyl chloride). To him are peculiar:

elasticity;
mechanical strength of finished products;
high electrical insulating properties;
moisture resistance;
chemical resistance to alcohol, fat, active alkalis and acids;
low exposure to fires.

The vinyl wallpapers are durable, beautiful, comfortable in use. However, like any "creation" rights, they also have disadvantages.

Vinyl does not tolerate severe frost. Therefore, it can be used only to decorate the interior of the room.

Vinyl looks like plastic. When heated, it can produce an unpleasant odor. Therefore, such wallpaper is better not to glue in the kitchen.

In addition, they do not pass air. Therefore, if they cover up the walls of a wet room, then it will become even drier. In dry rooms, where it does not happen too hot or, on the contrary, it's very cold, vinyl wallpaper will come in handy.

In addition to gluing vinyl wallpaper can be found in the article How to properly glue vinyl wallpaper.