[Rome2000]

We’re importing drywall now?

This sounds like some BS cooked up by some ambulance chaser condo case lawyers in south Florida with the aid of some moron reporters.

Maybe a few contractors used "Chinese" drywall, but I am a building inspector and have been on thousands of job sites in S Florida and have never heard of or seen it.

[the invisib1e hand]

but I am a building inspector and have been on thousands of job sites in S Florida and have never heard of or seen it.

kewl. So, do you have a numbered Swiss bank account and manse in the Tortugas?

[hinckley buzzard]

Sems to me if you paint it, you will seal it, and whatever vapors it may want to emit won't come into your living space.

[ottbmare]

As a building inspector, how would you establish if drywall was Chinese or not? Just thinking: you do the framing inspection and the walls are of course open, no drywall; you do the electrical, the walls are open; you come back for the final and the walls are closed, probably taped and even painted. At what point do you inspect the national origin of the sheetrock?

[lastchance]

But in inspections you do not check for country of orgin, only if the drywall is the correct thickness, attached according to code and when required if it is fire resistant/proof. So why would you pay attention to where the drywall was made? And I am trying to recall if Made In US is stamped on the drywall sheets. I think maybe the UL number is there and whether it is type X but I am drawing a blank about other details.