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Holy crap, what will they think of next? Chinese drywall hazardous to your health - The Gear Page
Http://blogs.consumerreports.org/saf...lfur-odor.html
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Can you imagine buying a house and then finding out every piece of sheetrock in it is hazardous to your health, corroding your pipes, and you can't get homeowners' insurance?
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I wonder if the same is true in China.
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Chinese drywall. who'da thought.
Drywall is so freaking heavy and so cheap locally, how cheap must they make it in China to pay for the freight across the pacific?
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Don't buy the shit problem solved.
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What's a sheet of drywall even cost?
They have to be nearly giving it away to make it worth shipping something that heavy across the ocean.
Heck, there's a drywall plant just a few miles from me.
And I know of another one or two within a 100 mile radius.
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You are missing the time frame.
In 2006 you couldn't get it.
So what happens? it somes in from china - and low and behold, its toxic.
Take a guess what it takes to rip it out and replace it.
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Quote: : Don't buy the shit problem solved.
Most home owners were unaware of the prob until it was too late, that's the problem.
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There was a huge thread about it about 1/2 a year ago here.
I haven't heard any new news.
Lawyers are probably battling now.
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Quote: : Tone Doctor Most home owners were unaware of the prob until it was too late, that's the problem.
If someone built my home using hazardous materials I'd bet I would have some recourse.
I suspect the same would apply across the board.
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Quote: : If someone built my home using hazardous materials I'd bet I would have some recourse.
I suspect the same would apply across the board.
Problem is that they have not yet identified the problem.
ALL drywall has high levels of sulfur.
It's comprised mainly of gypsum and bassanite (both Ca-sulfate products), Ca-carbonate (calcite), minor quartz, vermiculite (or other clay minerals), etc.
- standard, non-toxic industrial minerals.
Compositionally, the Chinese is the same as domestic drywall.
But for some reason, the Chinese stuff is emitting sulfur gas which is causing odor problems and pipes to turn black and other weird sh!t.
Sounds like it's been under reducing conditions (wet) or something like that.
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Quote: : If someone built my home using hazardous materials I'd bet I would have some recourse.
That's cute.
Someone who thinks the justice system is quick, or that insurance companies voluntarily pay claims.
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Quote: : That's cute.
Someone who thinks the justice system is quick, or that insurance companies voluntarily pay claims.
What's cute?
A contractor builds you a jacked-up house you have recourse.
I've been in the construction business long enough to know how it works....wether it's hazardous drywall in a single family dwelling or a gas line exploding in a skyskraper you just gotta know who to talk to.
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Quote: : What's cute?
A contractor builds you a jacked-up house you have recourse.
I've been in the construction business long enough to know how it works....wether it's hazardous drywall in a single family dwelling or a gas line exploding in a skyskraper you just gotta know who to talk to.
You're in the construction business.
You build 10 houses between 2004 and 2006 using Chinese drywall.
So you decide that your little LLC construction company isn't going to fold up shop or file the Chapter, but rather (since you have "recourse") you're going to tear out that drywall and replace it with good product, rehouse all those families, pay lawyers, healthcare bills, and God knows what other claims get thrown at you, while at the same time building a new house or two to make money?
More likely than not, your little construction company is having a hard enough time making ends meet as it is.
Being a builder, you know that when you turn these claims over to your carrier, the first thing they are going to do is send you a reservation of rights letter letting you know that they have the claims, but that if they can find a way out, they're taking it.
Maybe you changed carriers somewhere in that time frame or after.
Those insurance companies will all claim that the occurrence took place on someone else' watch.
Suits will be filed.
Fingers will be pointed.
Was it the General?
Subs? Manufacturer?
Architect or engineer who spec'd the chinese drywall?
All of the above?
Three years of discovery later, maybe you will have a 2 week mediation.
That won't result in a settlement, so two years after that you will have a trial.
How's that recourse treating you now?
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I want my chinese-drywall-lawsuit-money NOW, dammit!
^^^ I see where you're coming from....I really do.
However, what you're describing is probably the absolute worst case scenario for something like this.
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