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PVC Question

melissa68

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I love seeing all the homemade stands and gyms but I have a question about the PVC. It looks like most of these stands are made using regular PVC. I read that it puts out a buttload of chemicals that aren't good for birds....Is that wrong?

I was going to make my own stand but I ordered furniture grade PVC (not found in the big stores) for it.
 

jmfleish

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Regular white PVC is fine as long as you don't burn it or change its chemical makeup in any way and then, it's only a problem while you are in the process of making the change...once you are done, it's fine again. There's a lot of bad information about it out there. We do use it for piping in our houses with water. I suppose if the water you are using in it gets far too hot there could be problems but I can't imagine it would ever encounter heat that high. Basically, the answer to your question is, it's fine to use with birds.
 
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