Anybody has any experience with their vinyl floor tiles? They are like cheaper than laminate flooring.

Cheaper? Not, if you consider the health & life cost as vinyl off-gassing is associated with birth defects, autism, respiratory problems, cancer, and more.

Since smoking are banned in confined area, they should really consider banning vinyl too.

People who use such products are stupid, because they are in denial on the health risks.

Companies that sell such products are irresponsible in their pursuit of profit, and many hide the facts, even to the extend of misleading consumers by calling their products as "water-proof laminate floors or resilient floors", as vinyl is a cheap and dirty name.

I've also read that laminate flooring can have the same toxic gassing since the coating is also made from resins and plastics. Same goes for PVC or Poly-VINYL Chloride water pipes and trunking. Like this how can we be sure the materials being installed in our homes are safe?

Edited June 23, 201214 yr by welcomb

I've also read that laminate flooring can have the same toxic gassing since the coating is also made from resins and plastics. Same goes for PVC or Poly-VINYL Chloride water pipes and trunking. Like this how can we be sure the materials being installed in our homes are safe?

Laminate is paper and melamine resin, which poses no health hazard at all and that's a fact. It doesn't off-gass at all.

Just as the tobacco lobby used to said (before they lost the fight), the pvc/vinyl lobby is saying the same thing, that they are not the only contaminant in the environment, and as such cannot be blame for all ills.

I googled "laminate flooring off gassing" and it turns out lots of sites say laminate flooring also off gas.

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Laminate is paper and melamine resin, which poses no health hazard at all and that's a fact. It doesn't off-gass at all.

Just as the tobacco lobby used to said (before they lost the fight), the pvc/vinyl lobby is saying the same thing, that they are not the only contaminant in the environment, and as such cannot be blame for all ills.