There is a lot of formaldehyde in the wallpaper. What is the difference between plastic wallpaper and PVC wallpaper?

Comparatively speaking-wallpaper is more harmful-in fact, there are toxic gases such as formaldehyde and benzene in both paint and wallpaper-and the main pollution source of wallpaper lies in the glue attached to the wallpaper. Plastic wallpaper and PVC wallpaper are two common wallpaper materials. What's the difference between them?

Formaldehyde content

Both plastic wallpaper and PVC wallpaper contain formaldehyde, but in contrast, PVC wallpaper has lower formaldehyde content.

Appearance effect

PVC wallpaper is beautiful, durable, flexible and crack-resistant, and can be made into various patterns and concave-convex patterns. Rich in texture, high in strength, resistant to pulling and easy to paste. It is easy to replace when it is old, and the surface does not absorb water, so it can be scrubbed with a cloth. Plastic wallpaper is generally based on paper and coated with plastic, and forms various patterns, patterns or some special functions through printing, embossing or foaming.

gas permeability

Plastic wallpaper has poor air permeability, which will get old after a long time and have more or less side effects on human health. Moreover, PVC wallpaper has good air permeability and is not easy to age.

Applicable people

Plastic wallpaper is a kind of wallpaper with rapid development and wide application, which is suitable for general home decoration. And PVC wallpaper is suitable for hotels, office buildings and other occasions with high requirements on the appearance and quality of wallpaper.