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I have a plumbing related questions...PVC pipes...what does PVC stands for?

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  1. poly vinyl .... something that starts with a c chloride... I shoulda known that DAMN, I'm never gonna get on Cash Cab like that!
  2. poly.. vinyl...chloride..
  3. polyvinylchloride
  4. Poly Vinyl Chloride I think. Rose P.
  5. poly vinyl conduit
  6. poly vinyl chloride
  7. polyvinyl chloride I know all kinds of weird stuff !
  8. polly vinal cloride.
  9. polymer of vinyl chloride, It is tasteless, odorless and insoluble in most organic solvents. A member of the family vinyl resin, used in soft flexible films for food packaging and in molded rigid products, such as pipes, fibers, upholstery, and bristles.
  10. PolyVinylChloride
  11. PolyVinyl Chloride. It's a type of plastic.
  12. Poly Vinyl Chloride....the material it is made of.....before pvc plumbers had to use metal pipe and it was much more expensive to install and required much more training for the plumbers because the metal pipe required a lot of soldering to be put together as opposed to the modern PVC pipes which any monkey can glue together. The Plumbing unions fought the acceptance of PVC for many years because it adversly affected the rates they were able to charge and it also made it easy for homeowners to "Do it themself" instead of having to pay a plumber for any pipe repairs. If not for the fight from the plumbers union to delay the acceptance of PVC by building codes, it would have come into normal use in the sixties instead of the 70's.