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Have you ever passed out in an old neighborhood of Istanbul, Bursa or any city with a historical past? Have you ever been fascinated by the historical texture and wandered the streets for hours? Emotions evoked by old structures can be very variable. It can take you on an unexpected journey through the pages of history. What is the reason behind this magnificence? How do ancient structures manage to fascinate us?

Perhaps it is the effort put into building those structures that attracts us so much. At a time when construction technologies were not so advanced, the effort to build a beautiful building was far beyond what it is today. Most importantly, people lacked many of the facilities that make our lives easier today. Maybe we should ask about the structures that wink at us with all their magnificence from the outside, to those who built them and to those who live in them! How much easier PVC would have made their lives, who knows!

Perhaps it would not be wrong to say that there is no limit to the architectural possibilities we have today and the building materials we can use. However, there is a material that creates a huge gap between the past and the future; PVC. Think about how much PVC is used inside the houses; Windows, door profiles, facade cladding, water pipes, floor coverings... Considering the role of all these and much more in our lives, it is impossible not to ask how people lived before PVC! So much so that there is no alternative in certain product items today.

Discovered by accident in the 19th century by Henri Victor Regnault and Eugen Baumann, the adventure of polyvinyl chloride has been somewhat painful. At the beginning of the 20th century, attempts to test PVC in commercial products failed due to the difficulty of processing the material in solid form and the looseness of the polymer's structure. Finally, in 1926, Waldo Semon plasticized PVC by mixing it with different materials, thus the commercial use of PVC began. Some of the advantages of PVC are that it has a lifespan of 140 years, can be easily processed, and can be recycled 7 times.

There is no doubt how much PVC makes our lives easier. PVC, which allows us to decorate our homes from a to z with various colors and models in accordance with every budget, is beautiful when used in appropriate areas. As we have seen in some restoration disasters, for example, using PVC when restoring the windows of a 2,000-year-old castle is against the nature of the thing and absurd, everything is beautiful in its place. PVC is perfect yes, we all know that, but we better not exaggerate!