LVP flooring is toxic?
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Anonymous
| Did some research on LVP tonight. It sounds like this flooring is toxic? Why is it permitted? Seems to be in many of the basements in our area. |
Anonymous
| Bumping. Does no one else worry about this? |
Anonymous
| Are you eating it? |
Anonymous
It’s not an ingestion concern. It’s the plastics and vocs in the air. Every single article that came up was about how they are toxic and carcinogenic and rates and children for exposure to toxic chemicals are much higher than considered acceptable if they had LVP in their homes |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| I’m sure it is. But so is the clear crap they brush on hardwood. Carpet is also toxic. |
Anonymous
| Plastic has been found in human lung tissue and blood. We're all just cesspools of industrial waste. |
Anonymous
So are all windows that aren’t wood. Furniture too. Can’t avoid it these days. Cheap is the American way. |
Anonymous
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I anything called luxury ain’t. Apartments. Hotels. Flooring.
And VINYL is made from chlorine gas and releases Dioxin, you know the poison agent used by spies. There’s a reason they market it by it’s acronym. |
Anonymous
| Linoleum and cork are slightly healthier options. Frankly I prefer the look of both of these to vinyl (which was originally aping linoleum anyway). |
Anonymous
| I get it OP but yes, plastic endo-disrupting carcinogenic stuff is in virtually every single new construction material, sadly. |
Anonymous
| Marmoleum is safer choice. |
Anonymous
| Everything is toxic. Everything. no way around it. |
Anonymous
| So are rugs that arent cotton or wool. So is most cheap furniture. |
Anonymous
There is actually a way around it. It’s called “using natural materials where possible” and “doing research on new materials before shoving them in every home.” Stop with this “everything is awful so why even try?” mentality. |