Posted on 04/02/2010 4:38:09 PM PDT by LouAvul
New federal guidelines say thousands of U.S. homes tainted by Chinese drywall won't be safe unless they are completely gutted.The Consumer Product Safety Commission released the guidelines Friday. They say electrical wiring, outlets, circuit breakers, fire alarm systems, carbon monoxide alarms, fire sprinklers, gas pipes and drywall must be removed.About 3,000 homeowners, mostly in Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, have reported problems with the Chinese-made drywall.
A large quantity of the drywall was imported during the housing boom and after a string of Gulf Coast hurricanes. It has been linked to corrosion of wiring, air conditioning units, computers, doorknobs and jewelry, along with possible health problems.
Federal bailout coming soon...
The first question is whether homeowners insurance will cover it. That could get nasty.
“Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, have reported problems with the Chinese-made drywall.”
Half an hour after you hang it, you want to tear it down and put up more...
Why? Let the Chi Coms pay for it.
Just a minor inconvenience to the homeowner...
Manufacture (really crappy) drywall in China,
Load it onto a ship,
Sail it COMPLETELY ACROOSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
Through the Panama canal and North in the Atlantic ocean to Florida because it was less expensive than the drywall made in Florida/Georgia/Alabama/etc?
(Note, I understand it's a supply/demand thing, but geese!) I feel bad for these folks...
Chuckling...
The Federal Government is now in charge of local building codes? Where does it end?
Now that’s funny...
...you’ll have to excuse me, I’m going to see if there’s any more sweet and sour chicken leftover from supper...
“Half an hour after you hang it, you want to tear it down and put up more...”
Laugh of the day. Thanks.
If the government would have stayed out of business concerns in the first place, the homes would have been abandoned and could have been flattened for something better in the first place.
Sadly enough, either way they are paying for it via our debt.
What's the betting that the now bankrupt builder will be held liable?
I can only imagine. Word is that this stuff corrodes you pipes too, so chances are you’ll be re-plumbing your house, and possibly rewiring it as well.
Bad stuff...
Manufacturing is not green. Our socialist rulers do not like it.
I feel sorry for the folks that didn’t know about it. Some one here had a home built on some acreage near the Gulf Coast and raised horses . . . . now they’ve moved up here in Southern Middle TN and bought a small home with some acreage and are in “limbo” with the disaster of their “new” home. He is older and retired and his wife is a bit younger. Caught between a rock and a hard place. We’ve only had one home built and this is not something you’d ever know to be aware of and we drove out and checked our home in-progress at least weekly and sometimes more often. Bad things happen to good people.
I isn’t the manufacturing process that caused the problem. It was the materials used in this drywall.
Looks like I get to be the first to say it!
Bush’s fault.....
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