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Chinese Drywall MAy Be Toxic
Wall Street Journal ^ | 01/12/2009 | MICHAEL CORKERY

Posted on 01/19/2009 7:01:31 AM PST by LadyBuzz

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1 posted on 01/19/2009 7:01:31 AM PST by LadyBuzz
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Undoubtedly, these shoddy builders demanded top dollar for those houses, even though they were made of Chinese junk and built by illegal aliens. The builders probably have or will declare bankruptcy, and the homeowners are left with rotten houses for which they are still making high house payments. No wonder people are walking away from their mortgages.


2 posted on 01/19/2009 7:06:06 AM PST by kittymyrib
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Undoubtedly, these shoddy builders demanded top dollar for those houses, even though they were made of Chinese junk and built by illegal aliens.

BINGO, let the builders pay up, make them replace the drywall and provide compensation to the home owner..!!

3 posted on 01/19/2009 7:10:25 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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But.. but it’s for free trade! What’s a few bad odors and fires? It’s for free trade! You protectionists!


4 posted on 01/19/2009 7:10:41 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: LadyBuzz
possibly leading to electric problems

Not sure what to think of that statement.
5 posted on 01/19/2009 7:12:53 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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Not sure what to think of that statement.

Read the article. It mentions sulfur=based fumes that can cause metal corrosion.

6 posted on 01/19/2009 7:17:05 AM PST by slowhandluke (It's hard work to be cynical enough in this age)
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That makes sense. Kinda like the high sodium content in chinese concrete corodes steel.


7 posted on 01/19/2009 7:19:27 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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Sheetrock is heavy. They ship it from China?


8 posted on 01/19/2009 7:19:46 AM PST by allmost
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The other stories I have read indicate problems with pipes, pinholes and wierd corrosion - blackish, but copper tends toward green? Maybe sulfer?


9 posted on 01/19/2009 7:20:08 AM PST by Freedom4US
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Chinese concrete? You mean in China?


10 posted on 01/19/2009 7:21:18 AM PST by ecomcon
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FL was also importing sheetrock from Germany during the boom times...


11 posted on 01/19/2009 7:21:48 AM PST by stefanbatory (Do you want a President or a King?)
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BINGO, let the builders pay up, make them replace the drywall and provide compensation to the home owner..!!

Why should the American buisinessman be help responsible for the sub-par foreign products? Oh yeah, you don't like American capitalism.

12 posted on 01/19/2009 7:22:02 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: ecomcon

Made in China concrete.


13 posted on 01/19/2009 7:27:02 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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We are well and truly doomed. How in God’s name could it be cheaper to ship concrete from China than make your own. Every material, every tool, even food is becoming completely worthless.


14 posted on 01/19/2009 7:31:14 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: kittymyrib
As an electrical engineer, i designed dozens of these units. On my plans sheets, I was often discouraged from putting keynotes and comments. I never got a satisfactory reason why, but after visiting several job sites, I surmised that it was because none of the guys working the job could read it in English.

When I think of the cheap Chinese crap that went into 1+ million dollar units, I chuckle to myself a bit.

15 posted on 01/19/2009 7:32:45 AM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice
You have a problem with the product liability laws, you get them changed.
16 posted on 01/19/2009 7:36:27 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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Sheetrock is heavy. They ship it from China?

Ocean freight is relatively cheap per pound.

The stuff is a hazard to produce in the US because of the dust and the environmental and workplace safety rules in place around it. They can make it in China - with its weak to nonexistent safety standards and cheap labor both in the gypsum mines and the manufacturing plant - and ship it to the US and still be cheaper than the full cost of the domestic stuff.

And that, by the way, is why EVERYTHING is made in the China these days. They treat their employees as being expendable (and pay them as such) and pass the savings on to Americans.

17 posted on 01/19/2009 7:37:27 AM PST by jr.ewing.78
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To: ecomcon

I doubt they ship it in it’s finished form. More likely certain ingredients come from China and are mixed with things like sand and gravel here.

In the case of wheat gluten, the wheat was shipped from here, to China, and shipped back as gluten or in any number of other products.


18 posted on 01/19/2009 7:37:28 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice
Should add I do have a big problem with the illegal labor part and the stealing off of tax payers by using and enabling illegals. Cannot get them on the illegals I'll settle for this.
19 posted on 01/19/2009 7:38:55 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: kittymyrib

Gives a whole new meaning to “getting plastered.”


20 posted on 01/19/2009 7:42:05 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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