PVC Wall Cladding – Hygienic And In Assorted Colours

Hygienic wall and ceiling cladding can be used in any number of situations in which hygiene is a priority. This includes places such as hospitals, laboratories, dental surgeries, places where food is prepared on an almost industrial scale to produce the meals you find in stores like Iceland, and many more.

It follows that it is also used considerably in kitchens, whether they are commercial or even residential, such as in a care home. PVC cladding for kitchens, providing it is correctly installed, will produce a hygienic atmosphere for food preparation and cooking in which any contamination can be kept to a minimum. Certainly, in commercial kitchens food spills will occur, but plastic cladding for kitchens is very easily maintained. Food spills will simply wipe off with a damp cloth and the cladding is as good as new. It really cannot get any easier, and PVC kitchen wall cladding is very much simpler to maintain than stainless steel.

It can also look a lot nicer too. Stainless steel is – well – stainless steel, whereas PVC wall cladding can be obtained in a wide range of colours when you go to a specialist stockist. Of course, you can get it in white, and that is actually still the most popular, but you can have it in all sorts of colours and it can be pastel matte or gloss finished.

So with PVC wall cladding you get the best of both worlds. Perfect hygiene and something that is nice to look at also.

PVC Was Invented Way Back In 1872

PVC,or polyvinyl chloride, is all around us. It is used in PVC wall panels, PVC guttering, PVC ceiling cladding, and more. PVC sheets are used a lot in the building trade because they are low cost and durable, and they have been used to replace a lot of metal sheets which used only to last for a few years before becoming corroded. You can be certain that PVC is not going to rust!

PVC seems to be a product of only the last forty or fifty years, but in fact it was discovered back in 1872 by a German chemist named Eugen Baumann. However, it wasn’t patented until 1914 when Friedrich Klatte began polymerisation of vinyl chloride with sunlight. In 1926, Waldo Semon in the US invented plasticised polyvinyl chloride which is now known just as vinyl or PVC and is very similar to rubber. Even then, it wasn’t used for anything until the 1930’s when the first commercial use was in shock absorber seals. It was then used to manufacture the first synthetic tyres.

Today, the largest market is actually PVC pipes which are cheaper and easier to install than metal ones. Of course, it is also used considerably in PVC wall cladding and particularly in PVC cladding for kitchens because it is super hygienic and very easy to clean. PVC cladding sheets are also used extensively in laboratories, operating theatres, pubs, hotels, public sector buildings, and more, for the same reasons.