Chinese Drywall = 100,000 American Homes Environmental Hazards

**tripleblack** · 10-10-2009

This one is scary.

REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Chinese Drywall Is a Growing U.S. Problem

It would appear that perhaps 100,000 American homes may have been built or repaired with Chinese drywall, which contains severe and hazardous chemical contamination (I read one report which mentioned sulfuric acid, for instance).

What a shock! Substandard goods from Red China!

Who woulda thunk it?

05horse · 10-10-2009

thats why their batteries suck, all the acid is in the drywall you need to cut with the battery operated saw

BBFcapri · 10-10-2009

hey!! Barry won a nobel peace prize! why worry?

at least they don't paint our kids toys with lead paint...

Tominator · 10-10-2009

Most of the fears of chemicals in imported goods are promoted by unions and various idiots claiming to have facts on their side...and that's not excluding corporations that exert political influence in various ways.

Witness 'Lead Contamination' and the R-12 Freon ban....and the list is endless.

I ain't scared!

BBFcapri · 10-10-2009

the R-12 ban came on the heels of a patent expiration....

**pcfrisch** · 10-10-2009

Now there you go, it's because we build our houses tighter. Good excuse if I ever heard one.....

Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin, a German company with manufacturing plants in China that supplied about 20 percent of the Chinese drywall said its own tests showed the drywall didn’t cause health problems. Some experts believe that the reason that drywall seems to be causing respiratory problems and headaches is because American homes are built tighter than those in Asia, where the drywall was also sold.

BBFcapri · 10-10-2009

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Originally Posted by pcfrisch

Now there you go, it's because we build our houses tighter. Good excuse if I ever heard one.....

wait a minute- i thought WE were the evil polluters!! does this mean our houses are greener, therefore our country is greener? has anyone told the UN this?

Tominator · 10-10-2009

Here's another...I got married in '77 and we bought a mobile home.....and were cautioned to air it out because of formaldehyde given off by the construction material....and now the US government is paying large amounts in damages to Katrina victims for breathing in chemical from the free housing and you NEVER hear about the fact that the so-called problem has been in existence since most of these bureaucrats could wipe themselves with toilet paper!....assuming they can now of course....

ONEZ ST · 10-11-2009

The first I read of this drywall problem was in January.

Cheap stuff from China is what you pay and what you get.

I surprised the drywall doesnt contain radioactive debris from their spent fuel rods.

**countymounty** · 10-11-2009

And absolutly nothing will happen to them.......

BBFcapri · 10-11-2009

well-

if we complain too loud they will just forclose on us!!