"We heard about that Chinese dry ball disease and $hi+. I got me some dry balls. Where we sign up for the free money at?"
Posted on 10/13/2009 3:58:34 PM PDT by khnyny
When Bill Morgan, a retired policeman, moved into his newly built dream home in Williamsburg, Va., three years ago, his hopes were quickly dashed.
His wife and daughter suffered constant nosebleeds and headaches. A persistent foul odor filled the house. Every piece of metal indoors corroded or turned black.
In short order, Mr. Morgan moved out. The headaches and nosebleeds stopped, but the ensuing financial problems pushed him into personal bankruptcy.
“My house is not worth the land it’s built on,” said Mr. Morgan, who could not maintain the mortgage payments on his $383,000 home in a Williamsburg subdivision called Wellington Estates and the costs of a rental property where his family decamped.
Mr. Morgan, like many other American homebuyers who tell similar tales of woe, is blaming the drywall in his new home — specifically, drywall from China, imported during the housing boom to meet heavy demand — that he says is contaminated with various sulfur compounds.
Hundreds of lawsuits are piling up in state and federal courts, and a consolidated class action is moving forward in Louisiana before Judge Eldon E. Fallon of Federal District Court, who will begin hearing cases in January.
Three hundred cases have been filed in Louisiana alone, many with similar complaints from homeowners — a noxious smell, recurrent headaches and difficulty breathing. In Florida, the health department has received over 500 complaints with such symptoms.
In addition, these suits say, metal objects in homes corrode quickly, causing kitchen appliances, air-conditioners, televisions and plumbing to fail.
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Congressmen, feds tour Chinese drywall homes in Chesapeake, Virginia Beach
Sounds like Obamas plan to fix the economy - massive fail.
The communist slave produced drywall is full of sulfur.
Want to be really scared? Many of the vitamins you currently take, and (soon) a lot of the government mandated low cost generic drugs are/will be made in China.
This has been an ongoing story in the Virginia Beach/Hampton Roads area, of which Chesapeake is included, for quite some time now.
So we can’t even make drywall here in the US?!
We deserve every bit of these crap products from China.
Unreal...
What I want to know, and haven’t been able to find out, is who, here, bought this stuff? What standards did they have? Did they do even minimal testing? Did they do any testing after problems started to surface? Did they keep using it after problems surfaced?
I ain’t gonna just blame the Chinese jerks that made this crap! Somebody here got greedy and careless! Everyone knows that the Chinese will sell anything. I wouldn’t contract with a Chinese company without very strict rules and regulations. And I certainly would test any products I ordered from them.
I think there’s a lot of blame to be spread around with this drywall issue, which I’ve been following for months. If you’re gonna buy Chinese, exercise care!
"We heard about that Chinese dry ball disease and $hi+. I got me some dry balls. Where we sign up for the free money at?"
I got a half-dozen sheets of USG drywall this year dated 04/13/09. Crumbly crap. I put a screw into it and it crumbled. I scored and snapped it and the edges crumbled. I cut it with a drywall saw and it crumbled. Never saw any DW that bad before. Maybe it’s a special mix they sell to Home Depot.
I heard the interview with the women in line applying for the money.
Reporter: “Where did it come from?”
Women: “Obama.”
Reporter: “Where did he get it?”
Women: “I dunno...”
I got some looks in traffic because I was yelling so hard at my radio.
From what I have learned, it still is up to the individual, potential home-buyer to personally pay for the “tests” to make certain the widely known devastating defects of “Chinese drywall” are not present in the particular home up for sale.
And people wonder why everyone with cash on hand aren't snapping up “distressed” property!
We can and do make drywall in this country. The builder thought that the money saved was worth it.
BUY CHINESE. PEOPLE HAVE NO PATORITISM
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