If you have a new home, check out the drywall that it was built with. As we have reported before, there have been some serious problems with Chinese drywall that are making families sick.
These issues are being addressed differently by builders that installed Chinese drywall in the homes they built. The Sarasota Herald Tribune has an article discussing how a couple of builders are dealing with the problem. One is hiding their head in the sand, check out the original article for details, while Lennar Corp. is fixing it for the homeowners.
This could be an explosion waiting to happen as the Chinese drywall goes bad all across the country.
Meanwhile, about 30 miles to the south, in the Lighthouse Cove neighborhood of Lennar Corp.’s Heritage Harbour development in Manatee County, another group of babies have begun moving back into homes originally built with Chinese drywall.
The wallboard has been removed from several dozen homes by the Miami-based company, one of a few builders to do so.
Lennar says the houses are now free of harmful gases, but some owners remain nervous. HeraldTribune.com
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This problem just reiterates the need to have a local supply chain with some accountability along the way. Of course we are going to get crappy toxic products without any accountability or warranty if we buy the cheapest product that we can find in China.
Definitely worth looking into. You need to follow up on all Chinese drywall products.
Standard Pacific Homes (NYSE: SPF) isn't doing ANYTHING for homeowners in their many communities affected with Chinese Drywall. In fact, all they have consistently done is ignore us.
Their CEO seems to have no concern whatsoever about this issue and the lives of the hundreds or possibly thousands of people that he is ruining right now. It's shameful.
I'm glad that other builders are taking responsibility. I'm frustrated at Standard Pacific's lack of response, particularly because they PROMISED when they sold the house that anything that goes wrong they would take care of immediately. That was a huge part of their sales pitch. Buyer beware of false promises.
better have a good paint to cover all that
I agree to Lisset..!
thanks for the post…people should now do something about China
thanks for this post..:D there are a lot of things in china these days..
thanks for the post..i love chinese..but why are there a lot of drywall problems?
thanks for the info..really funny when people still say there are a lot of things made in china
need some chinese dry wall products here..
thanks for the problems stated here..it was really fun reading these with regards to china's problem..
how about the quality of their products? are they still trustworthy on that?
me too..china has lots of problem these days..weird..
Most likely contamination of Chinese drywall comes from low-grade scrubber gypsum that would not be allowed in wallboard in the U.S., Japan or most countries in Europe. Raw output from wet scrubbers always contains some combustion residues — sulfites, sulfides, grit, incomplete oxides, carbon and oils. To make concrete additive-quality gypsum, utilities add forced oxidation. To turn that into wallboard-quality gypsum, utilities then add post-scrubber purification. If China is allowing low-grade or raw scrubber gypsum to be mixed into wallboard, there will be problems with it, particularly in humid climates.
The problem is quite complicated .Unfortunately, the only solution is to remove all Chinese drywall from your home and replace with good drywall. Remember that drywall is friable, so it could be risky for you to remove the material yourself. Unlike air-borne hazardous materials like lead-based paint and asbestos, phosphogypsum-based drywall cannot be "sealed" with a coat of paint.
Much of the problematic drywall, which is also known as wallboard or plasterboard, was manufactured in China. One manufacturer that is dealing with the fallout is Knauf Plasterboard, Tianjin Co., a subsidiary of the German construction-material company Knauf International GmbH.
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