Are floors in PVC resistant to cigarette ash?
PVC, like all plastics, will not resist if subjected for lengthy periods to cigarette ash at around 1000°C. If the ash on the floor is put out immediately, it leaves a spot that can easily be removed. It rarely happens that a user or visitor will throw a lit cigarette butt without stepping on it and leave it to burn on the floor. This question does not usually become a subject of discussion with interior designers, as they are well aware of the fact that since in 90% of cases PVC floors are used in areas such as hospitals, rest homes, pharmaceutical laboratories, offices, banks and schools…rarely in these areas is smoking permitted, and, in any case, the tendency is to confide in the civic sense of visitors!
