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Home sick: Living with Chinese drywall

By Rawan Jabaji
August 12, 2011
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This week, we bring you a story about something that can be found in almost every home: drywall. It’s also called sheetrock, or plasterboard, and no matter where you are, it’s probably part of your wall, or your ceiling, or both. What you may not know is that some drywall — usually manufactured in China — could be making some people sick.

Here’s the background: Between 2004 and 2007, the United States had a drywall shortage. That was mostly because we were in the middle of a building boom, and also because a series of hurricanes — especially Katrina — had wreaked havoc in the South. Chinese manufacturers were quick to capitalize on the shortage, exporting millions of sheets of drywall to the U.S., enough to build approximately 61,000 average-sized houses. Some of it has been blamed for health problems.

As part of our series, The Watch List, we bring you a report we orginally aired last spring, in cooperation with the independent investigative journalism group ProPublica, along with investigative reporter Aaron Kessler.A quick postscript: In June, Propublica reported that insurers representing Florida-based drywall supplier, Banner Supply Company, agreed to pay some $55 million to settle some of the claims filed by people whose homes were built with Chinese drywall provided by the company. The settlement, reached in US District Court in New Orleans, does not impact Colleen Stephens. Banner, in turn, has filed a suit alleging fraud by the maker of the drywall, Knauf plasterboard Tianjin, as well as related companies.

Statement from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (Aug. 4, 2011) http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know ... rywall.pdf

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/vi ... all/11004/

Here’s the background: Between 2004 and 2007, the United States had a drywall shortage. That was mostly because we were in the middle of a building boom, and also because a series of hurricanes — especially Katrina — had wreaked havoc in the South. Chinese manufacturers were quick to capitalize on the shortage, exporting millions of sheets of drywall to the U.S., enough to build approximately 61,000 average-sized houses. Some of it has been blamed for health problems.

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The CPSC has no power to make either China or any other foreign country make safe building materials.

Adding pain to misery, most of these 61,000 houses were sheetrocked by illegal aliens from Mexico.

And with this miserable real estate market, unless the drywall in these homes can be completely redone, they have no hope of ever reselling them.

Find Homes With Tainted Drywall
http://projects.propublica.org/drywall/
http://www.propublica.org/series/tainted-drywall

CPSC Drywall Info: http://www.cpsc.gov/info/drywall/index.html

WELCOME TO CHINESEDRYWALL.COM
The first website dedicated to educating the public about Chinese drywall:
http://www.chinesedrywall.com/

Adding pain to misery, most of these 61,000 houses were sheetrocked by illegal aliens from Mexico.

I know for a fact they did in Florida; I would watch bus loads (The Old Blue Bird School busses) filled with Illegal Aliens; standing room only; some days 6 busses, some days 10 - 12 busses drive past my house mind you that was only one road in south west florida... I cant speak for the other roads coming out of Immokalee Florida that is filled to the brim with Illegal Aliens

Construction companies laid off 90 - 95 percent of the American work force and replaced them with FAR cheaper Illegal Alien Labor

ya know what America.... its all coming your way;

Florida is destroyed.. now its your turn

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

Adding pain to misery, most of these 61,000 houses were sheetrocked by illegal aliens from Mexico.

I know for a fact they did in Florida; I would watch bus loads (The Old Blue Bird School busses) filled with Illegal Aliens; standing room only; some days 6 busses, some days 10 - 12 busses drive past my house mind you that was only one road in south west florida... I cant speak for the other roads coming out of Immokalee Florida that is filled to the brim with Illegal Aliens

Construction companies laid off 90 - 95 percent of the American work force and replaced them with FAR cheaper Illegal Alien Labor

ya know what America.... its all coming your way;

Florida is destroyed.. now its your turn

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Greed breeds corruption and corruption breeds destruction.

I'm waiting to see what legal settlements will be coming out of this, if any. The companies that bought bought and sold it, and the builders that installed it either have, or will be going bankrupt in this depression market.

But if some sort of settlement money does surface for ripping out the Chinese contaminated drywall, WHO do you think will get the work?

Americans?

I rest my case.