Of course not! ...lol... we live in a capitalist society. Now early on when Mitt Romney was promoting American business's to move over seas, he told the public it would be cheaper in the long run but of course that was a lie. I was told a long time ago that the object in business is to make the customer THINK he's getting a good deal. George Carlin was right, businessman are a piece of shit. Businessman don't and never will fully trust anyone, especially each other.
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This reminds me of when toys for toddlers imported from China were found to be tainted with lead paint. An issue that reinforces the need to buy American not just for quality, but for safety as well.
China still uses lead paint for almost everything. Toys, homes, cars, and more. Lead paint is very cheap, few bucks a gallon. That's why. And there are plenty of countries in the world that import that cheap lead paint from China and use it everywhere.
If we could manufacture the things we buy from China and other countries as cheaply as they do then we'll all be better off. But we have regulations are followed to make items safe. Plus a lot of other red tape. This made in China phone Iwould cost 3 or 4 times as much. But I'm not a fan of child labor and feel much better driving my Japanese made Toyota knowing a 10 year old child didn't install the brakes. Even though the car was built here the parts aren't made in the.US.
@@montamiddleton9318 the idea of the United States manufacturing its own goods and products is just plain *"RACIST"* so it will therefore never be allowed by our current liberal politicians in power
Here is what happens when you do business with the enemy... And of course, insurance companies will say whatever they can to get out of paying for their obligations...
No. This is what you get when you deal with shoddy American builders who cut corners. People like the Trump family, for example. How typical to blame foreigners for something that is well within your control.
Insurance Companies should NOT be able to get away with that Crap and say.. thats NOT Covered!!! Why buy/pay for insurance if nothing is covered?? WTF!! Vote for Government Guidelines for Insurance Companies to follow!! Lets STOP the Insurance Companies from Ripping Us Off !!
ron dill my point exactly insurance has become a scam every mandatory Insurance including auto insurance should be scrapped it can go back to the way it was 20 years ago where it's risk of the road you better have insurance to cover your ass but to make you buy a product that they can skate on you my life's been destroyed because my insurance company skated on me because sumbitch at child support suspended my license after being shot during a robbery in the hospital they suspend my license because I couldn't make payments while I had an accident after I got back to work cost me for the insurance company thousand dollars and they refuse to to pay the claim now I'm treated like I never had Insurance my license are suspended I'm having to drive on for tags and they are not in my name and it's not right and it's not American that's legalized extortion and enslavement.
The dry wall did not got here walking, swimming or flying. An American contractor ordered it, installed it and stunningly over priced it!! 700 k Really? For a cardboard house? Too bad money don't buy common sense...
Those homes are ugly and plain with absolutely no character. Hey let's buy a brand new house fifteen feet from the neighbors half bath. Let's keep up with the Joneses while they take their browns to the pool.💩
It's not free market capitalism that is the problem, but corruption. The problem is government giving rights to corporations that ordinary citizens have. Then a corporation can lobby and pay government to do what it wants. You want to regulate it? They will buy the regulators. It doesn't matter what economic system you try to use, corruption exists in ALL of them!
@@jkreider175 right away you feel the very strong need to look for a black man to blame it on LOL you went out of your way to single out our first black president and try to pin this on him. you're what's wrong with America . Thanks a lot for voting in Trump
@@RobertSwain-i1n no. All told, when taking into account quality, I'd rather pay more for product longevity than purchase flimsy products that have to be constantly replaced.
They’ll find a way to still use crap materials. They always do. The building material, home construction, home inspection, and real estate industries are all super opaque.
No discrimination against the Chinese people but I won't buy products made in China. China Communist government and Business owners have no moral principles when it comes to do business. They made low quality products with toxic materials to lower the cost. Our health and safety will be in danger as the result.
I'm inclined to think the only way we're going to force business leaders in the US to make sure their products are safe are to institute criminal charges.
Reagan, Clinton and Bush 2. Reagan lifted regulations on media businesses and Wall Street. Clinton signed Away the Glass Steagall Act, and W swept away the rest. After The Media, Business, Banks and Wall Street were unregulated now we’ve got what we got.
whats messed up is that most countys won't let me build a home out of cob. Cheap, homemade, 100% non-toxic, all it costs is some time and labor. but its okay if i build my house with this crap.
Lenny Tompkins We Chinese are incredibly good as business people. If we visit your home we can sell you your own children and you won't even notice. Fat white Americans are our source of wealth. And the Churches are filled with them so they are easy to find.
I sold my kids to the Chinese years ago and they paid me with a few pallets of arsenic-laced, knockoff Doritos. But they were good with cheese dip, so who cares?
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Actually, I have a cousin who is an operator and 1/3 owner of a company that manufacturers precursor chemicals for electrical insulators. He's done pretty well and in the last decade, many of his customers have been Chinese businesses. They're based in the US and employ Americans. The problem is that often, it's really hard to find Americans who are experienced, qualified chemists and are willing to work in an industrial setting. H1B1 visas become a necessity, not a choice.
This was almost 10 years ago. I saw the aftermath of this in South Florida. People walked out on their mortgages. Tons of homes in Parkland upscale communities had foreclosed signs on them. Homes that were worth 750k when new were selling for 100 to 200k . I remember one of the customer at my job was snapping them up, gutting them, re drywalling them and flipping them. She own a drywall company if I recalled. Another problem that happened is we had hurricane Wilma that happened 4 years before and the repairs were done with Chinese drywall too . New home and old homes were in this mess too.
Andew70 Parkland huh? Used to live on 72nd way. The house we lived in was built in 1983. When my parents sold and moved to Daytona the new owners completely gutted it and remodeled it. This was back like in 2008 it was literally minutes before the housing bubble burst. They got out of Parkland by the skin of their teeth. I wonder if our house was affected?
Lmao whp just walks put on ,ortgage thats tarnishong to say the least imho presuming not knowleadgable if thats what ya mean or eeven merely wanna hear or er read heheh but ykwis but yah fwiw seems the opposite of it in the best interest of the peep to walk out on owm mortgage or any kind of debt lols if its got amy other resort or way of addressing it even of more legnthy and tedious its prolly gonna help them long term ykwis
@@gratefulgal6416 hopefully that way it either compensate or combates the price that at that point was going rate for the regular drywall or evne plasster or else makes the regular stuff nless costly than the chinese drywall situation
When my cousin had her house built she sat on site every single day to ensure that the construction was done to HER standards. Such a shame these people will be stuck with a worthless home because someone else's greed.
I did the same thing. I acted as my own contractor, and hired the subs myself. I went to the lumber yard and chose EVERY board by hand. No cracks or warps, the rough in contractor was thrilled, said he'd never worked with such good wood. I stacked everyting in neat piles, labeled it as to what is was and where it went in the house. And my drywall, or course, was Georgia-PAcific.
How? Why? This is product liability, not a construction problem. It will be similar to the asbestos in the 1950s and you can bet China won't pay a nickel. By the time the lawsuits are settled, these houses will have been condemned and demolished and these folks will have long been bankrupt. And Biden will be dead.
There needs to be*_HUGE,_* government-backed class action lawsuit against Lowes, Home Depot, and ALL of the builder supply companies that bought, and then supplied this CRAP! It was *THEY* who profited from the sale of it, so _THEY_ are responsible.
They got away with it....if your inspector does not detect the chinese drywall you are out of luck...but the company that installed the drywall is off the hook....it happened to me...the court said I failed to conduct reasonable inquiry....but of course the developer was not held to that standard
@@davethedude9885 I am a residential contractor on the West Coast and I am screaming right alongside you, i shutter to think of the chaos that is about to be unleashed again. houses that I was able to build for 150+/- a sqft 8 years ago are now pushing 215-225 and thats not including land and development costs. Folks are getting in over their heads again as if they have already forgotten 2008...smh
I completely remember when this story came out. I had a bad feeling about it then and I have a worse feeling about it today now that people have been marinating in these homes another decade since.
Exactly, I worked in healthcare chars and became disabled after vaccines. Which lead to other issues and I am now stage four and no cure offered. Childhood diseases offer some immunity from certain cancers as adults. Weight the risks you chose to take.
These potentially imported materials need to be inspected before supply chains make contracts so they don't land on our shores as toxic materials destroying people's lives.
A family’s health is TOP priority! I would not wait for someone to tell me of the potential danger! I would grab everyone and run out of that house. I would not care of the money. If you don’t have health you don’t have anything! Think of your children and not your house!
We did his name was Trump, Now China Joe is ready to move into the White House. I bet he will be very strong, America first and China last. No wait I think I might have that wrong.
@@ristinechapman9936 As a Senator Biden was the ranking member of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, at the same time the drywall was being shipped to the US. I don't suppose he could have known that the trade agreement with China was going to bring cheap poisoned drywall to the American building industry. Much the same I don't think at the time Trump's China tariffs were implemented that he could have foreseen the inflationary pressure it would put on our economy. I do believe that Trump as a business man had more interest in America's success than the Biden family with overseas dealings that only seem to have taken place due to the political positions that Joe Biden has held over the last 50 years. Hopefully the house you bought was one of the ones with American made drywall. Fortunately for me the Chinese drywall never made it into my markets in the Cincinnati area. My reply to Monk Amani was not specifically for this issue but how I felt overall about whom put America first. Biden will spend billions of our tax $ to defend a border in Ukraine, but sees no problem letting all kinds of narcotics flood across our southern border. Thanks for your comment
@@barryrutenschroer75 Talk about Don the Con man. Wow, what did he do in 4 Yrs for we the people. You sir is a typical Repugs Lot's of babbling rhetoric. Prez Biden has been a Senator for as long as Trump has been a Con Man. Now back to the subject of the defective dry wall. Your greedy Repugs Home builders, contractors, knew dam well what they were purchasing from China.
This issue came up in FL back in 2009. These houses are relatively new. Contractors absolutely had to know what they doing when they bought the drywalls. Sue, sue, sue!!!!
A friend of mine, who used to manage health and safety at a nuclear power plant, told me that a huge shipment of rebar contaminated with radioactive waste, came into the country from China. It was caught before it got a chance to be distributed, and was sent back. But China won't take it back. He said it is just floating out there somewhere in a shipping container. I saw a documentary that people are stealing radioactive metal from areas around Chernobyl and selling it on the black market to China, and China buys it. I saw what was happening to people in China who lived in apartment buildings that had contaminated rebar in. Even buried in the cement, people are getting really sick. With as much as we get from China, even in the way of trinkets, I would recommend that people buy a geiger counter. You can get little ones that plug into your smart phones, now.
@@haroldwilkes598 you know the Chinese could kill us this way... Have you ever discovered radioactive contaminated products? If so, you could create a series of videos where you find this stuff...
@@yourcompassioncorner Only found it in some ore samples and auction knives, forks, etc plus some discarded laboratory stuff. Old stuff, not modern but I still check occasionally. Lived near INEL and Atomic City in Idaho, bought the detectors (CD V-777-2) in a Civil Defense package from the 50s, cumbersome but they work. I think the cutlery was from Korea.
My father, proud WW2 vet and battle of the bulge survivor, before his death in 1997, warned that China would be a future threat. He didn't say Russia, he said China!
Considering this video is over 13 years old and the algorithm just now brought us here, it’s infuriating because nothing in the housing industry has changed for the better. SMH
I agree with that. No shame in going bankrupt. (To force the bank to eat the cost if all other avenues fail.) After a few years of renting your credit score recovers and you can do whatever you want again.
I can not imagine having a new house built and finding out in a few years that the entire house is infected with something related to the drywall. From what the one man said needed to be replaced, it sounds like they need to take from the house what ISN'T infected, knock the house down and start all over...and who can afford that? Boy, my heart goes out to these people. I know this is from 2009, I wonder how this all turned out?
People said the same thing about the "greatest technological breakthrough in home fire safety" called asbestos. Tear all the homes down, rebuild them, etc. But for the most part people learn to deal with it properly. My home built in the late 1960s has lead paints, asbestos, and radon but they are never a problem so long as you follow the rules to keep yourself safe. These people will probably need some kind of air purifiers or ionizers to reliably treat the sulfur in the air on their return vents and then they can just forget about it and go on with their lives while their air problems are fixed by their furnace, air conditioner, etc. while it circulates air. Those people that have these expectations of a flawless home are just fooling themselves. There are things in your home that are killing you that we won't even discover until 30 years from now. I'd rather have an older home where I already know exactly what those things are and how to properly deal with them than a new home with countless unknowns.
@@Sidicas Is sulfur the real problem that asbestos causes? If so, then I was misinformed. Thank you for the information. I grew up on sulfur water that everybody said smelled like rotten eggs. I breathed in those vapors for 19 years of my life and then every time I went back to visit my parents at the homestead for the next 33 years. That never had any effect on me.
@@dricka49221 My mom grew up in East Texas. She epuld bring that Texas water home to Alabama in gallon jugs when we visited relatives. She died st 94. My siblings and I grew up with lead pain and asbestos, were fine. Just let it be. As a dental assistant folks wanted their perfectly fine amalgam fillings removed and replaced with plastic composite fillings. Drilling all the old out was more dangerous to us than just letting it be. No mercury was released into your system when it hardened. FYI...plastic fillings were 3 times the cost and zero percent better than amalgam fillings. So you are ingesting little bits plastic csuse it's not near as hard. So what's better, plastic or amalgam? Conspiracy theories get started like this. But if you want to pay 200 bucks for a plastic fillings instead of 50 bucks for silver....its your money, waste it if you want.
@@montamiddleton9318 Had all of my amalgam fillings removed 25 years ago and replaced with composite fillings. After 25 years, all of my composite fillings are still in perfect condition. Mercury is an extremely toxic poison that can damage the brain, kidneys, and lungs, cause tremors, and impair cognitive skills. Mercury amalgam fillings are now slowly but surely being phased out in Europe, the U.S., and world wide. They should never be used in dental work in this day and age when durable and safe mercury-free alternatives are now widely available.
There are also issues with insulation causing toxicity of homes. My cousins family kept getting sick he got cancer before having his home tested. They home was a total loss that insurance would not cover. They had to level to home and rebuild.
That’s what you get when you use builders that cheap out and cut corners. I’m sure you have companies in the USA that make drywall, like we have here in Canada.
Viper6 it's not China's fault . US let that garbage in and approved as safe . Did anyone resign or got fired? They must compensate those who's loosing money and go after China .
Which builders are not cheap, and do not cut corners? When in the army I bought 5 news houses and found out that developers buy the cheapest fixtures available. Also they all offer upgrades that entails the builders using the fixture they should be using in the first place and charging considerably more for house. The last house I bought I told the builder that I would have all the light fixtures, out lets, and carpets installed myself. Bu doing this, the house was cheaper with higher grade fixtures thus sold for more when I retired.
currently costing them 8-10k a month why don't they just replace the sheetrock and probably will cost them $20-25 thousand. and then chase after the all those guy's.
Good isn't cheap and cheap isn't good.Those contractors install chienese drywall at 3 a foot and charge American made prices.It been going on for 20 years.A tract home builder goes the cheapest route possible on everything they can.They save pennies to waste home owner dollars down the road after the warranty period. Some of those homes will be teardown properties.
bird dog 2020 - A friend found that his house had no poured concrete footing. The block was laid on cap blocks* in a shallow trench. Of course after a few years it had cracks everywhere. * 4"x 8"x 16" solid blocks.
There is no QC in a communist state--only profit worship. RUclips videos on how the Chinese will put ANYTHING into their products to make it look decent and plentiful so they can profit. This is why Chinese won't buy their own cars or their own milk powder--ADV China covers this topic. In the construction over there, new buildings actually have cardboard and other junk in the materials and the buildings start falling apart after less than five years. Chinese buy real estate only to sell it to someone else and make a profit because the places aren't even safe to live in. They're ghost cities.
How is this much different than Corporations dumping toxic waste in private landfills, then compacting the soil in preparation for housing development. Recognize this story yet? Love Canal
At $3 a sheet you still probably paid $33 a sheet and then another $70 to $100 a sheet finished. So the $3 a sheet means nothing except to the brokers who brought it in to stuff their pockets. The root of all evil is still the king.
curt wehrmeyer and that guys quote of 22 dollars a sheet is bullshit they pay more like 6 dollars for the 1/2" drywall a few dollars more for the 5/8" fire rated board which is primarily used in commercial construction and apartment complexes these contractors buy 10's of thousands of sheets a year they get wholesale price the $ went to the drywall manufacturers I worked as a drywall hanger/finisher for 30 yrs
I'm a real estate appraiser and I have seen defective construction up close recently in the Del Mar California Highlands and in Mira Mesa San Diego. I am intrigued by this report because it renders the value of these houses to worthless. No one with any knowledge of market value will go anywhere near these houses including the greedy real estate investors. If they don't want the house then that should tell you something. However you might be able to get one of the investors who boasts " We buy houses any condition" to purchase your house. I feel bad for these homeowners who got stuck with these toxic houses simply because of the absolute greed of the Developers as well as the third world standards of China.
FWIW, this is one of the problems that happens when you get a house built, or buy a house, and know little or nothing about homebuilding. And that goes for pretty much everything else (cars, insurance, computers, land or a herd of cattle). Educate yourself about every type of major purchase, because you can't really trust anyone else to watch your back.
Lenny Tompkins 100% agree. That is what I've been learning for decades now. This is also true with health-care and education but almost everything else as well.
The viable resolution is to remove the sheet rock and replace it . This is something the government should be helping people to fix in their homes. Offer low-cost loans, etc. no one should have to go through this.
you are getting away from the point here…who cares how much money she has..that is totally irrelevant…these people have been ripped off of their hard earned..not to mention the damage to their health…despicable!
STOP FOREIGN AID !! Buy U.S. MADE !! This is the ultimate result of sending jobs away from America !! God Bless America and President Trump bringing our manufacturing jobs home !! Prayers to all affected.
bogey, Instead of spouting a FACTLESS post how about providing some PROOF to back it up. Here's a FACT for you to dwell on. Unemployment is at a record low of 3.9%. There are more job openings, then people looking for work. This along with a LOT of other positive economic FACTS is due to the policies of President Trump and his Administration.
Here's a graph illustrating the Unemployment rate for the last ten years. Since the country was in a shit show during the crisis of 05-08 when unemployment rate was at a record low. The graph will show the rate rising about 1 year into President Obama's term and continue to rise. It's not Trump pal...it's the policies that were passed during Obama's tenure. Listed Facts below. www.bls.gov/charts/state-employment-and-unemployment/state-unemployment-rates-animated.htm www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/national-employment-monthly-update.aspx ( this second chart shows the rate dropping about 1% since President Trump has been in office). "...This along with a LOT of other positive economic FACTS is due to the policies of President Trump and his Administration" = conjecture
James yea those ppl with the triplet babies need to get the fuck out of that house. What are they thinking? If I had tiny babies and heard I had this the first thing I’d do is get them out of there.
What's just a kick in the teeth is that the county zoning boards are who require all these unaffordable ridiculous "building codes," (which force the use of cheap materials), then refuse to allow anyone to go off grid and live truly healthy the way the pioneers did. The govt writes all these zoning laws (saying it's for health and safety reasons when it's really just to keep us paying out the nose for "the grid"), then they claim ignorance when their China bedmates send us "death boards." What we have is a system so knee deep in greed and the regulations that cater to that greed, that it will take a lifetime of newly born citizens, full of youth who will see the scam and rise up to fight it. Bc the living generations now are far too brainwashed to see the forest for the trees.
I agree with that with the exception of suburban areas. I live in a suburban area, I cannot put a septic system in my area without negatively affecting my neighbors. Out in the sticks though, it should not matter. If a house is structurally sound and hygienic, then it should not matter. There are log cabins that still exist today that were built hundreds of years ago. They still exist because of regular upkeep. My parents grew up using shit houses on farms. My 20's were spent in the military where you basically used shit houses. It's not rocket science. I now work in the HVAC industry. I have a pretty good understanding of the dangers of high humidity. Too much humidity produces black mold. How do you avoid this? First you make sure your house is built on a base of rock that drains water away from the structure. Then you start looking at insulation and ways to vent the house. If the home has proper drainage, then bacterial growth is limited in the summer and is killed off in the winter. Then it becomes an issue of regular maintenance. We have technology now that makes it so you do not need to live on the power grid. Solar panels have come along way. I love the idea of these things. I want to build a log cabin with a few solar panels for small things that I feel are necessary. Nothing wrong with using a wood stove out in the woods for heating, considering we've been doing that for 400+ years (Previously we used fire places).
Ryan but LOW Humidity causes HEALTH issues, BLACK MOLD on/in Dry-Walls is a major problem across the units I dwell, but during the winter humidity drops to the teens which is unhealthy, and even when you engage in humidifier it only brings it to 20's which causes Bronchitis and Dry Nose & Throat issues for me and my granddaughter.
Back in the day, the old folks would put a pot on the stove and slowly heat the water to put water in the air. It works. Doesn't work so well with electric stoves though. Electric stoves suck compared to gas stoves.
I would rather pay 7 times the price for quality products that are going to last and not make you sick. If the Chinese drywall didn't cause these problems it would be a good deal, but that's simply not the case.
i hung drywall for 26 years, thankfully i quit the trade before that crap hit the market, hangers breathe dust from that stuff everyday, USG brand sheetrock used to be one of the best quality board on the market, guess their company went overseas like all the rest. CELOTEX is the best, not sure if they are still quality or not
Sorry, there is no asbestos in Drywall,just Gypsum and Fiberglass except in this case we have sulfer?? wth. the fiberglass is bad enough :D 30+ years hanging\taping,finish I did....Hard work but it was fun imo, it was a trade off;)
I used to haul wallboard. Most of it came from Fort Dodge, Iowa, Kansas, River Rouge Mi, Minnesota, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Hammond, Indiana. All made in American plants where I picked up or delivered. Whether it was Celotex or USG. This was around 2005-2007.
My wife and I Knew of this when we finally left the Garbage Dump of California and were looking at homes in Henderson, Nevada. We directly asked the realtor if these homes were made from toxic Chinese drywall, and she answered YES - She HAD to disclose or face Huge lawsuit. We went to Utah instead -
I heard about this in 2012 when I had a passing interest in fixing up homes for rentals. There were a bunch of guys in the south that had to rip apart entire homes to get rid of the shit drywall.
I feel bad for them. I bought a house that turned out to have waxy mold growing out of the base of the walls in the basement bathroom and bedroom. I also discovered mushrooms growing under a carpet in the basement closet. Now, it was obvious that the previous owner was aware of it...because I removed the mold from the walls and under the carpet and of course, several months later it was back. That proved to me that he knew about it. The inspector did not catch it somehow...or maybe he just didn't write it up. At the time of the inspection, the mold coming out of the walls was absent. Of course I complained to the mortgage company but they had little sympathy...I signed off on the inspection so it was basically my problem. I was not in a position to move out of the house and pay for the family to live somewhere else. I could not sell it like that...well...I would not sell it like that. In the end, I went into foreclosure and lost the place. But in the long run, it was better. The previous owner's wife was sick all of the time...and now we know why.
Well you should sued the Inspector, and the builder..in must cases is the A/C system is to big, olso concrete slab or foundation problems was not insulated, or has water leaks some where hasn't been detected yet.
@@arthurduncan5838 I do A/C for leaving I got plenty customer who had mold in the entair house..basements you need put humidifier system in..but previously chek for insulation issues.. get it dry really good, treated it with clorox vented for 2 weeks check again .
@@saulduke1549 What ever brings the mold has to be removed or it comes back, right? Well since basements are in the ground, isn’t that all but impossible in most cases? The source usually inside the house but in the dirt… right?
and we want to do business with this country. America needs to become self sufficient and stop importing shit from this country. they do it on purpose and should be sued
I bought my first house 40 years ago. It was a simple 1400 Sq ft house no frills we called them starter homes. Now a first time home buyer wants 5000+ Sq ft with all the bells and whistles. The builders are forced to build to a price point to sell them.
They need to hold these builders financially liable. Of course even if they do they'll go bankrupt and go up with a different name and these families would never see any money.
In most countries in Europe this could not happen. Legal remedies against the builders would require them to replace within the first 10 years any structural faults. The U.S do not offer ax much consumer protection in any field, and as a result the small guy gets ripped off continually
"Consumer protection" in both Canada and the USA is a province/state responsibility. When you have an entire COUNTRY set a standard it gets vetted pretty good. In the USA your "freedom fry" states like Texas and Florida LOVE to let builders off the hook, as they're the ones that vote Republican. Canada isn't much better: Alberta (the Texas of Canada) is freedom fry, while in BC Alberta owners in our area are "surprised" by the aggressive OVER SITE of stupidity.
8k a month is a hair under 100k a year. many corperate level jobs pay well more than that, or they could be doctors making 250k+ a year, enough to make 8k a month in expenses seem "reasonable" to them. Glad i was raised poor. as i move up the ladder and make more and more money in my career, i continue living the same as always. excess goes into investment accounts so i can retire at 45 and live off interest. i pity people who dont know the value of money and what can be done with it when your not wasting it.
I mean there's a reason we all mock by using the term Made in China to mean poor quality and this is one example.of it. Sure they're cheaper, but at what cost? Getting sued for building a dangerous house?
How do you test your drywall? That's the biggest question I have. I own a house with a huge stack of drywall that was never installed. Long story. So how so I check if it's that Chinese drywall they're talking about. I don't want to just throw it away, unless it's no good. If good it's worth a bit of money. To throw it way isn't cheap. So how would I know if I should use it or cart it away?
In the United Kingdom we have a two tier certification process for the building industry. New products can gain access into the market through an Agrement Certificate. This certificate gives initial acceptance to supply for a period with a list of tests that have been conducted. After a certified agreed length of time the manufacturer / import agent applies for a British Standard Certificate. This process is as strickly controlled by our local standards officers employed by the local council. Any illegal products will be notified to their office. We also have a 10 year builder's Home Guarantee scheme in which constructors certify their construction. This is not so easy to police since small builders close one day and open again with a slightly different name days later. This home guarehtee schrme includes sewerage and electrical systems in the street. Dry Wall is very easy to put up so I should think it will be quite easy to resolve. A PE Engineer in the US will advise further.
I have always bought old houses. You know what your getting usually, bad materials have usually been vetted out. These new houses are throw away houses and they want a fortune for them.
I think the emphasis on building houses that are virtually air-tight makes the problem worse for air-breathers. I've got windows open, year-round. Run the house fan most of the time, except peak heat times.
It would probably be more cost-effective in the long run to knock the house down and build a new house with the proper materials because everything in those houses is contaminated. You have to replace all the electrical, Plumbing, air conditioning then the drywall and trim. It would take the rest of your life doing it one room at a time.
We could never afford our own products because our labor is too high. If we made products in America, they would make them even more unsafe and crappier than china to help bring costs to somewhere near affordable. Communism is terrible, but capitalism is JUST as bad.
How ridiculous. That company and its American retailer should be soon. As well as anyone else involved. Anybody remember the lead in Chinese cat and dog food. Then there was the lead found in Chinese made toothbrushes.
There's a lot of KARMA happening here. I don't feel sorry for these homeowners and I'll tell you why. I lived in Florida for 25 years. Most people in the State are very corrupt from the Developers, Real Estate Sales Agents/Brokers, Religious Leaders, Organizations, Environmental Contractors, business owners and homeowners etc and even the poor slaves so everyone is suffering KARMA. I know because I lived in Florida for about 25 years and as a former Corporate executive, Business owner etc etc, I saw the corruption and mistreatment of the poor especially when it came to unfair treatment and bullying of employees because it"s a state of employment at will. When you work hard and get to the top, they want you to be corrupt and treat others as peons and when you don't they will fight you down. Yes I fell into poverty helping people and they just abandoned me to die. Another thing is that these homeowners will be shooting for the stars and will rig up every excuse they can find to get more than they deserve and that cheating the Government comes out of the poor hard working taxpayers and slaves of the State. You got to expeerience it all to know what I'm talking about as an honest person. Florida is a wicked state that"s why God is continuously allowing hurricanes along it's path and yes, it's all coming from the coast of Africa. Is is science or coincidence or KARMA. So the moral of this message is that God is watching and you should always do the right thing even when people are not fair to you. God will reward you, if not here, then in Heaven. Hell will be full and hotter than Florida. We will all expire one day. Jesus is the only hope.
I guess there are 2 alternatives: Remove cabinetry and accessories, then all drywall and rebuild the interior. Or, take the whole home apart and rebuild it. Of course no matter what's done, it starts with a lawsuit...
Pacific NW Native thats impossible with out rebuilding the whole house. The dry wall is through out the whole house & rebuilding would cost more than the 4 to 5k extra theyre paying for rent. They couldnt put the whole 8k a month towards rebuilding because theyre still paying a mortgage. I applaud them for getting their kids outta there. Anything that corodes copper by simply being in the air has to be harmful to humans
I'm glad I live in a barn. It's infested with Black Widow spiders but they never seem to bother me. I used OSB for all my walls. That way you don't have to find a stud to hang shit up. Texture it and you're ready for paint. Plus, when you get angry and throw a wrench it doesn't stick inside the wall, it just bounces off...lol...
That doesn’t make sense. They’re paying $8k a month, (these days that’s probably closer to 12k!) when they could have the drywall replaced for probably 20k. Why wouldn’t they just get a loan to replace the drywall so they can move back into their home soon?
Please tell me if you know what would happen if this installed drywall got dripping wet? Would it put out toxic fumes? It did in my rental. Caused me sudden severe breathing problems and near died. Hot water tank in apt above emptied into my ground floor apt. Apt owner says it wasn't the leak. It was very toxic. Even the ambulance drivers got sick coming in to get me.
Hi Masha. Do you have any links I can use to investigate the wet drywall and wet insulation that made me sick? My landlord is saying it did not make me sick and I am making it up. He is trying to evict me for getting sick. Thanks.
I don't want to stay in a place that is toxic. The owner has torn out all of the wet insulation, drywall and carpet. They sprayed it with mold killer and then sprayed it with a sealant per a Mold Specialist recommended. It is fine now but they are ticked over the cost and are trying to evict me now...rentals are very hard to find. Thanks!
JP Morgan If you had any knowledge of the entity of the OEM that manufactures this product you wouldnt have embarassed yourself with your comment. JP Morgan indeed. Your use of the best robber baron in history most assuredly has him spinning in his grave.
Yeah right! Trump is just about to trash the ICC, as we speak. www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/09/10/trump-administration-to-take-tough-stance-against-the-hagues-icc.html
Vanessa Costa Isn't it lovely, how he's rigging everything to fuck over the planet and the poor, so the rich may get richer? Make America Greed Again. I think the rest of the world will band together and rise against this evil empire, in a matter of time. I think in 2022, April or May. I love America, the land, the good people. The government has become an evil empire, loyal to money over morality. It would be nice if a large meteor hit the earth, at such a high speed we never saw it coming. Poof....a cloud of dust, in a few seconds. ...maybe next time life advances this far, love will overpower greed. With the current situation, a sudden painless death for all, would be merciful indeed. The future, as it's coming now, is sure to provide a slow and painful death for most humans.
LOOK at ALL "made in china" items! Stop supporting Russia's and China's illegal weapons sales! Almost all or more of the chinese purchases go to weapons support (even for maifia bands) I stopped buying anything "ANYTHING" made in china for a good 2 years now! Let's start the TREND!!!
An update on this situation and on the families' health so many years later. I did see where a law was passed in 2012 against hazardous drywall imports...do you have a follow-up story?
Virtually? That's being awfully generous... lmao Their entire economy is state run and directed business in china is only beholden to the state not customers or shareholders... Even IF they had third party testing organizations (Like UL in USA for example "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_Recognized_Testing_Laboratory") they would still be beholden to state and wouldn't be trustworthy... I'm sure a hypothetical "third party" testing company would certify a pinto as safe... lmfao china is nothing more than a rapidly developing third world country with a bubble that is going to burst soon it's completely unsustainable.
Yes in America we should Boycott Sams Club Costco and Walmart I bought a pair of tennis shoes at Warmart and less than 2 weeks the soles came unglued Warmart would not take them BACK,!!!!!
So it's an HOA and yet they somehow let this shit happened but god forbid you planted the wrong grass or a tree. I would just strip all the drywall out and live in the house without drywall if I can't afford to drywall it with good stuff. Which if you're in a house that expensive you should be able to afford the new drywall unless you're living beyond your means. Why am I not surprised that the thing you need the insurance to cover just happens to be the thing it does not cover.
Tommy Ferrigno You said "HOA is responsible for the structure of their homes" and "the financial wellbeing" how does this not fit both of those? It's going to be pretty difficult to sell that house with that drywall now wouldn't it?
While the Chinese dry wall was much cheaper ($3 vs $22), I bet that the difference in the prices WAS NOT given to the buyers.
But contractors charged like it was a $22 sheet.
Correct and pocketed the difference. So they made that much more. As I said the difference was NOT passed on to the customers.
I've never heard of drywall at 22.00. That's bs
Someones got to get their cut
Of course not! ...lol... we live in a capitalist society. Now early on when Mitt Romney was promoting American business's to move over seas, he told the public it would be cheaper in the long run but of course that was a lie. I was told a long time ago that the object in business is to make the customer THINK he's getting a good deal. George Carlin was right, businessman are a piece of shit. Businessman don't and never will fully trust anyone, especially each other.
The sad part about this story is is that the people that should be punished will probably get away
God doesn't forget...
This story is from 13 years ago. If they haven’t got them yet, they’re not going to.
China products made for China are even worse. And it's very hard to hold anybody responsible.
Peru 🇵🇪 and Colombia 🇨🇴 Have TONNES OF COCAIN ... I KNOW THEY DIDN'T GET IT OVER PAST THE 🇺🇸 USA ... WHO BRINGS ANYTHING PAST THE BORDER ⚖ LEADERSHIP AND SIGNATURES .. ALL DAY
STOP BLAMING OTHERS AMERICA
AMEN
So who should be punished. Everything from THIRD WORLD COUNTRY'S should be examined
This reminds me of when toys for toddlers imported from China were found to be tainted with lead paint. An issue that reinforces the need to buy American not just for quality, but for safety as well.
China still uses lead paint for almost everything. Toys, homes, cars, and more. Lead paint is very cheap, few bucks a gallon. That's why. And there are plenty of countries in the world that import that cheap lead paint from China and use it everywhere.
If we could manufacture the things we buy from China and other countries as cheaply as they do then we'll all be better off. But we have regulations are followed to make items safe. Plus a lot of other red tape. This made in China phone Iwould cost 3 or 4 times as much. But I'm not a fan of child labor and feel much better driving my Japanese made Toyota knowing a 10 year old child didn't install the brakes. Even though the car was built here the parts aren't made in the.US.
@@montamiddleton9318; I think that you're missing the point, completely.
@@jvcyt298 Monta is actually not too far off of the main point.
@@montamiddleton9318 the idea of the United States manufacturing its own goods and products is just plain *"RACIST"* so it will therefore never be allowed by our current liberal politicians in power
Here is what happens when you do business with the enemy...
And of course, insurance companies will say whatever they can to get out of paying for their obligations...
That's a good way of saying it
Sure makes you wonder if our meds are really safe since most come from there.
No. This is what you get when you deal with shoddy American builders who cut corners. People like the Trump family, for example. How typical to blame foreigners for something that is well within your control.
@@carltaylor4942 Trump wanted to bring manufacturing back home...
And you think you are in control of what another manufactures for you?
Dietary supplements are not. Most come from China and many are not what’s on the label.
Insurance Companies should NOT be able to get away with that Crap and say.. thats NOT Covered!!! Why buy/pay for insurance if nothing is covered?? WTF!! Vote for Government Guidelines for Insurance Companies to follow!! Lets STOP the Insurance Companies from Ripping Us Off !!
ron dill the problem is that common sense regulations like this are discouraged by our politicians and to let the "free market" fix it itself.
ron dill my point exactly insurance has become a scam every mandatory Insurance including auto insurance should be scrapped it can go back to the way it was 20 years ago where it's risk of the road you better have insurance to cover your ass but to make you buy a product that they can skate on you my life's been destroyed because my insurance company skated on me because sumbitch at child support suspended my license after being shot during a robbery in the hospital they suspend my license because I couldn't make payments while I had an accident after I got back to work cost me for the insurance company thousand dollars and they refuse to to pay the claim now I'm treated like I never had Insurance my license are suspended I'm having to drive on for tags and they are not in my name and it's not right and it's not American that's legalized extortion and enslavement.
Drywall isn't covered. Simple as that. You should read your GodDamn policy before buying it. What are you, a moron??
ron dill oh yah. 10k insurance a year. Great idea
Sydney Austin...and state sanctioned.
The dry wall did not got here walking, swimming or flying. An American contractor ordered it, installed it and stunningly over priced it!! 700 k Really? For a cardboard house? Too bad money don't buy common sense...
japp rivera
So True...
SUE the builder!
Those homes are ugly and plain with absolutely no character. Hey let's buy a brand new house fifteen feet from the neighbors half bath. Let's keep up with the Joneses while they take their browns to the pool.💩
@@bonchidude sue china?
That's why I love my 1930s house as much as I do!
This is what happens when you ‘de-regulate’ or lower standards on trade.
These houses where built years ago during obumma administration
It's not free market capitalism that is the problem, but corruption. The problem is government giving rights to corporations that ordinary citizens have. Then a corporation can lobby and pay government to do what it wants. You want to regulate it? They will buy the regulators. It doesn't matter what economic system you try to use, corruption exists in ALL of them!
@@jkreider175 this video was your uploaded in 2009.... Which makes your comment a lie.
@@jkreider175 right away you feel the very strong need to look for a black man to blame it on LOL you went out of your way to single out our first black president and try to pin this on him. you're what's wrong with America . Thanks a lot for voting in Trump
Amen
We need to start producing our own materials again.
BLAME THAT ON NIXON WHEN I WAS A KID NOTHING WAS MADE IN CHINA
We already produce our own materials, but they are 10 times the price of foreign materials. This is the problem in the USA.
@@RobertSwain-i1n no. All told, when taking into account quality, I'd rather pay more for product longevity than purchase flimsy products that have to be constantly replaced.
Buy American ! Oklahoma, Texas and many west states have several drywall manufacturers. It was greed not lack of suppliers.
You are Correct !!! ----------- Greed will destroy the USA !!
Build unconventional...forget the drywall altogether.
I like tamped earth houses.
America is #1
I will rather buy from Texas where I'm building my new home!!!
Anybody who is building a house should demand construction companies use only USA materials.
They’ll find a way to still use crap materials. They always do. The building material, home construction, home inspection, and real estate industries are all super opaque.
The laboratory testing found sulpher in US gypsum too and in one case at a level which exceeded the Chinese board.
@@firstman9273 your point?
@@manan007 Surely it is obvious.
No discrimination against the Chinese people but I won't buy products made in China. China Communist government and Business owners have no moral principles when it comes to do business. They made low quality products with toxic materials to lower the cost. Our health and safety will be in danger as the result.
I'm inclined to think the only way we're going to force business leaders in the US to make sure their products are safe are to institute criminal charges.
Hard to do since congressmen sell their vote to the highest bidder & that's not you or your children. Keep electing grifters & killing yourselves.
Make it a law that everything we use is made in America. But know the politicians make you much money by selling off America. Just like our farm land
Reagan, Clinton and Bush 2.
Reagan lifted regulations on media businesses and Wall Street. Clinton signed Away the Glass Steagall Act, and W swept away the rest.
After The Media, Business, Banks and Wall Street were unregulated now we’ve got what we got.
AND slacko government authorities. Aussie speaking....Same here.
@@garydergut4741 No argument there. The elitists are selling us off too.
My son works for a company that cleans up things and his team received paperwork on this drywall that says it's radioactive.
Thank you for making this information public to the consumers.
You need to thank the usa government for it they don't care about us
This is 15 years old lol most of them are long dead💀 . It’s a ghost town now
Actually really surprised this news channel is reporting on something detrimental to China.
whats messed up is that most countys won't let me build a home out of cob. Cheap, homemade, 100% non-toxic, all it costs is some time and labor. but its okay if i build my house with this crap.
I build a house out of Ty Cobb and it's still standing. I still can't get rid of the mustache on the front door though.
Lenny Tompkins We Chinese are incredibly good as business people. If we visit your home we can sell you your own children and you won't even notice. Fat white Americans are our source of wealth. And the Churches are filled with them so they are easy to find.
I sold my kids to the Chinese years ago and they paid me with a few pallets of arsenic-laced, knockoff Doritos. But they were good with cheese dip, so who cares?
Lenny Tompkins Do you have any other relatives who need work ? We have many positions in the agriculture,recycling, manufacturing, and human relations fields. We provide all housing, meals, Chinese language training, plus a substantial salary. Young females (and males) are in special demand. Seniors as well. PM me .
Actually, I have a cousin who is an operator and 1/3 owner of a company that manufacturers precursor chemicals for electrical insulators. He's done pretty well and in the last decade, many of his customers have been Chinese businesses. They're based in the US and employ Americans. The problem is that often, it's really hard to find Americans who are experienced, qualified chemists and are willing to work in an industrial setting. H1B1 visas become a necessity, not a choice.
This was almost 10 years ago. I saw the aftermath of this in South Florida. People walked out on their mortgages. Tons of homes in Parkland upscale communities had foreclosed signs on them. Homes that were worth 750k when new were selling for 100 to 200k . I remember one of the customer at my job was snapping them up, gutting them, re drywalling them and flipping them. She own a drywall company if I recalled. Another problem that happened is we had hurricane Wilma that happened 4 years before and the repairs were done with Chinese drywall too . New home and old homes were in this mess too.
Andew70 Parkland huh? Used to live on 72nd way. The house we lived in was built in 1983. When my parents sold and moved to Daytona the new owners completely gutted it and remodeled it. This was back like in 2008 it was literally minutes before the housing bubble burst. They got out of Parkland by the skin of their teeth. I wonder if our house was affected?
wow, unbelievable !
I'm sure there's a huge tarrif on this CRAP to.
Lmao whp just walks put on ,ortgage thats tarnishong to say the least imho presuming not knowleadgable if thats what ya mean or eeven merely wanna hear or er read heheh but ykwis but yah fwiw seems the opposite of it in the best interest of the peep to walk out on owm mortgage or any kind of debt lols if its got amy other resort or way of addressing it even of more legnthy and tedious its prolly gonna help them long term ykwis
@@gratefulgal6416 hopefully that way it either compensate or combates the price that at that point was going rate for the regular drywall or evne plasster or else makes the regular stuff nless costly than the chinese drywall situation
Oh snap
When my cousin had her house built she sat on site every single day to ensure that the construction was done to HER standards. Such a shame these people will be stuck with a worthless home because someone else's greed.
I did the same thing. I acted as my own contractor, and hired the subs myself. I went to the lumber yard and chose EVERY board by hand. No cracks or warps, the rough in contractor was thrilled, said he'd never worked with such good wood. I stacked everyting in neat piles, labeled it as to what is was and where it went in the house. And my drywall, or course, was Georgia-PAcific.
The cheap comes out expensive! The home buyers didn't save money out of the deal; only the builder!
right understanding
$700000 for a house made of drywall and fibre board? American housing seems more like overpriced movie sets.
God forbid it gets wet it will melt into a pile
@@bjohnson1489 South Florida houses are primarily built from concrete, block, and stucco.
Yes, indeed, look at European houses, they are built from cinderblocks. Those homes last forever.
Movie sets are built with lauan plywood.
What do you expect the interior walls to be plaster?
Sue the builder. True tragedy. I feel for all the homeowners.
Chinese drywall. Now we have Chinese flu. I hate it.
I am sure. That builder went b.k. long ago. Jmo
Can't sue easily most builders that I know of fold after every project , then start a different Corp or LLC for the next project
How? Why? This is product liability, not a construction problem. It will be similar to the asbestos in the 1950s and you can bet China won't pay a nickel. By the time the lawsuits are settled, these houses will have been condemned and demolished and these folks will have long been bankrupt. And Biden will be dead.
China isn't a friend of the United States
There needs to be*_HUGE,_* government-backed class action lawsuit against Lowes, Home Depot, and ALL of the builder supply companies that bought, and then supplied this CRAP! It was *THEY* who profited from the sale of it, so _THEY_ are responsible.
They got away with it....if your inspector does not detect the chinese drywall you are out of luck...but the company that installed the drywall is off the hook....it happened to me...the court said I failed to conduct reasonable inquiry....but of course the developer was not held to that standard
Dear ABC. Can you follow up on this story and see how the homes are doing today ?
Best to go to Facebook or a forum tended to by someone in a main office of news.
GETTING READY TO DROP 90% LMFAO WAKE UP NOTHING HAS CHANGED FROM 2008 1000 TIMES WORSE IM IN REALESTATE GET READY WAKE UP!!!!!!!!
@@davethedude9885 I am a residential contractor on the West Coast and I am screaming right alongside you, i shutter to think of the chaos that is about to be unleashed again. houses that I was able to build for 150+/- a sqft 8 years ago are now pushing 215-225 and thats not including land and development costs. Folks are getting in over their heads again as if they have already forgotten 2008...smh
@@davethedude9885 its even worse now because inflation is even impacting the retail stores of walmart or grocery stores and stuffs.
The houses are worth millions now
Cheap always ends up costing.
Beware of vitamins that are made in China as well
Don't eat anything from china or give your pets any pet food or treats from there either.
SuperGarbonzo romeo I agree
I completely remember when this story came out. I had a bad feeling about it then and I have a worse feeling about it today now that people have been marinating in these homes another decade since.
no follow up?,,was it toll brothers?
If it does that to pipes, just think of your lungs?
Why can't they be compared, just asking?
thank you Dr. we have lived in the same home for 20 years and I was always afraid that the builder used cheap drywall.
@Dr Poldi asbestos can probably scratch copper.
The Chinese make YOUR VACCINATIONS, HELLO
I think that China is depopulating its country and USA by many means, by permissions of the join Powers That Be, of course.
Exactly, I worked in healthcare chars and became disabled after vaccines. Which lead to other issues and I am now stage four and no cure offered. Childhood diseases offer some immunity from certain cancers as adults. Weight the risks you chose to take.
Nov 12 2018 what happened to these people and their properties ?
You are correct. There should be an update.
These potentially imported materials need to be inspected before supply chains make contracts so they don't land on our shores as toxic materials destroying people's lives.
When I shop for groceries I always check to make sure the food doesn't come from China.
I always read everything on the products.
@@Janell136 No they don't. No chicken is sent to China. Way too expensive and rather foolish.
YOUR MEDS NOW COME FROM CHINA WAKE UP NOW WITH ARSENIC.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
same i make sure the beef and chicken is Canadian, American stuff tastes awful
Yes people are bocoting China products.....but damn they keep buying the cars ..,😂😂✌️
A family’s health is TOP priority! I would not wait for someone to tell me of the potential danger! I would grab everyone and run out of that house. I would not care of the money. If you don’t have health you don’t have anything! Think of your children and not your house!
Why don't we elect people that are supposed to protect and look out for our well being?
AMERICA,
What's up?
We did his name was Trump, Now China Joe is ready to move into the White House. I bet he will be very strong, America first and China last. No wait I think I might have that wrong.
@@barryrutenschroer75 With all honesty, Trump nor Prez Biden guilty on this charge. I brought a house in 2007 when the issue actually came into play.
@@ristinechapman9936 As a Senator Biden was the ranking member of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, at the same time the drywall was being shipped to the US. I don't suppose he could have known that the trade agreement with China was going to bring cheap poisoned drywall to the American building industry. Much the same I don't think at the time Trump's China tariffs were implemented that he could have foreseen the inflationary pressure it would put on our economy.
I do believe that Trump as a business man had more interest in America's success than the Biden family with overseas dealings that only seem to have taken place due to the political positions that Joe Biden has held over the last 50 years. Hopefully the house you bought was one of the ones with American made drywall. Fortunately for me the Chinese drywall never made it into my markets in the Cincinnati area. My reply to Monk Amani was not specifically for this issue but how I felt overall about whom put America first. Biden will spend billions of our tax $ to defend a border in Ukraine, but sees no problem letting all kinds of narcotics flood across our southern border. Thanks for your comment
@@barryrutenschroer75 Talk about Don the Con man. Wow, what did he do in 4 Yrs for we the people. You sir is a typical Repugs Lot's of babbling rhetoric. Prez Biden has been a Senator for as long as Trump has been a Con Man. Now back to the subject of the defective dry wall. Your greedy Repugs Home builders, contractors, knew dam well what they were purchasing from China.
This issue came up in FL back in 2009. These houses are relatively new. Contractors absolutely had to know what they doing when they bought the drywalls. Sue, sue, sue!!!!
A friend of mine, who used to manage health and safety at a nuclear power plant, told me that a huge shipment of rebar contaminated with radioactive waste, came into the country from China. It was caught before it got a chance to be distributed, and was sent back. But China won't take it back. He said it is just floating out there somewhere in a shipping container. I saw a documentary that people are stealing radioactive metal from areas around Chernobyl and selling it on the black market to China, and China buys it. I saw what was happening to people in China who lived in apartment buildings that had contaminated rebar in. Even buried in the cement, people are getting really sick. With as much as we get from China, even in the way of trinkets, I would recommend that people buy a geiger counter. You can get little ones that plug into your smart phones, now.
I have one and use it regularly for exactly this reason. Oriental pots, pans and kitchen utensils were made the same way from reprocessed waste.
@@haroldwilkes598 you know the Chinese could kill us this way... Have you ever discovered radioactive contaminated products? If so, you could create a series of videos where you find this stuff...
@@yourcompassioncorner Only found it in some ore samples and auction knives, forks, etc plus some discarded laboratory stuff. Old stuff, not modern but I still check occasionally. Lived near INEL and Atomic City in Idaho, bought the detectors (CD V-777-2) in a Civil Defense package from the 50s, cumbersome but they work. I think the cutlery was from Korea.
Wow 4 years
I'd love an update nearly 10 yrs later. How are those children's health doing?
My father, proud WW2 vet and battle of the bulge survivor, before his death in 1997, warned that China would be a future threat. He didn't say Russia, he said China!
One of my dear friends vehemently stated that they were our mortal enemies back during Obama's Recession. Your father knew best.
It's the US contractors that sold their soul to the devil for a buck.
Good thing that we now have a treasonous criminal as president and his entire regime all 100% compromised, bought and paid for by the CCP.
Did he mention the liberal democrats
Shocking china!! ruclips.net/video/Bi1Kf-1qd6Y/видео.html
Considering this video is over 13 years old and the algorithm just now brought us here, it’s infuriating because nothing in the housing industry has changed for the better. SMH
Walk away and let the bank and insurance company have it.
I agree with that. No shame in going bankrupt. (To force the bank to eat the cost if all other avenues fail.) After a few years of renting your credit score recovers and you can do whatever you want again.
Carla Simmons mess up your credit and never own a house again.... That's stupid
Cam23 wrong. my mom filed for bankruptcy and then bought a $150k house last year making only $40k a year
I walked on a $300 loan in 1972 and am still paying for it. A would think slipping out the back door on a million five would be a bad idea.
Carla Simmons why its a cheap fix new drywall
I can not imagine having a new house built and finding out in a few years that the entire house is infected with something related to the drywall. From what the one man said needed to be replaced, it sounds like they need to take from the house what ISN'T infected, knock the house down and start all over...and who can afford that? Boy, my heart goes out to these people. I know this is from 2009, I wonder how this all turned out?
Not much. Now we have Chinese Bat Soup Disease.
People said the same thing about the "greatest technological breakthrough in home fire safety" called asbestos. Tear all the homes down, rebuild them, etc. But for the most part people learn to deal with it properly. My home built in the late 1960s has lead paints, asbestos, and radon but they are never a problem so long as you follow the rules to keep yourself safe. These people will probably need some kind of air purifiers or ionizers to reliably treat the sulfur in the air on their return vents and then they can just forget about it and go on with their lives while their air problems are fixed by their furnace, air conditioner, etc. while it circulates air. Those people that have these expectations of a flawless home are just fooling themselves. There are things in your home that are killing you that we won't even discover until 30 years from now. I'd rather have an older home where I already know exactly what those things are and how to properly deal with them than a new home with countless unknowns.
@@Sidicas Is sulfur the real problem that asbestos causes? If so, then I was misinformed. Thank you for the information. I grew up on sulfur water that everybody said smelled like rotten eggs. I breathed in those vapors for 19 years of my life and then every time I went back to visit my parents at the homestead for the next 33 years. That never had any effect on me.
@@dricka49221 My mom grew up in East Texas. She epuld bring that Texas water home to Alabama in gallon jugs when we visited relatives. She died st 94. My siblings and I grew up with lead pain and asbestos, were fine. Just let it be.
As a dental assistant folks wanted their perfectly fine amalgam fillings removed and replaced with plastic composite fillings. Drilling all the old out was more dangerous to us than just letting it be. No mercury was released into your system when it hardened. FYI...plastic fillings were 3 times the cost and zero percent better than amalgam fillings. So you are ingesting little bits plastic csuse it's not near as hard. So what's better, plastic or amalgam? Conspiracy theories get started like this. But if you want to pay 200 bucks for a plastic fillings instead of 50 bucks for silver....its your money, waste it if you want.
@@montamiddleton9318 Had all of my amalgam fillings removed 25 years ago and replaced with composite fillings. After 25 years, all of my composite fillings are still in perfect condition. Mercury is an extremely toxic poison that can damage the brain, kidneys, and lungs, cause tremors, and impair cognitive skills. Mercury amalgam fillings are now slowly but surely being phased out in Europe, the U.S., and world wide. They should never be used in dental work in this day and age when durable and safe mercury-free alternatives are now widely available.
May 2019 - What happened to the homeowners? 10 years later!!!!
There are also issues with insulation causing toxicity of homes. My cousins family kept getting sick he got cancer before having his home tested. They home was a total loss that insurance would not cover. They had to level to home and rebuild.
Sue the snot out of the build and the company that sold the drywall and the imports
Who's got the money to pay the attorney fees? Kinda tough to find one who would take the case on a contingency basis.
That’s what you get when you use builders that cheap out and cut corners. I’m sure you have companies in the USA that make drywall, like we have here in Canada.
Viper6 it's not China's fault . US let that garbage in and approved as safe . Did anyone resign or got fired? They must compensate those who's loosing money and go after China .
I totally agree with you. The onus to ensure products from other countries, resides with the importing country.
SOUTHER REPUBLICAN DE-REGULATION FREAKS REAP WHAT THEY SOW. WALMART OF CHINESE TOXIC'S AND BUILDING SUPPLY CHEAPSTERS'.
Which builders are not cheap, and do not cut corners? When in the army I bought 5 news houses and found out that developers buy the cheapest fixtures available. Also they all offer upgrades that entails the builders using the fixture they should be using in the first place and charging considerably more for house. The last house I bought I told the builder that I would have all the light fixtures, out lets, and carpets installed myself. Bu doing this, the house was cheaper with higher grade fixtures thus sold for more when I retired.
@ altitude illness
This was obammy's EPA and Chamber of Commerce, and cheap ass democrat contractors, jackass.
currently costing them 8-10k a month why don't they just replace the sheetrock and probably will cost them $20-25 thousand. and then chase after the all those guy's.
More like $50k+. This is Florida.
they said,plumbing,electrical etc would all have to be replaced.
The quality of construction in china is crappy also.
Makes me happy that most of the drywall in my house is over 60 years old.
Good isn't cheap and cheap isn't good.Those contractors install chienese drywall at 3 a foot and charge American made prices.It been going on for 20 years.A tract home builder goes the cheapest route possible on everything they can.They save pennies to waste home owner dollars down the road after the warranty period. Some of those homes will be teardown properties.
Dont blame the contractors blame the supplier......menards lowes etc......
bird dog 2020 absolutely true
bird dog 2020 - A friend found that his house had no poured concrete footing. The block was laid on cap blocks* in a shallow trench. Of course after a few years it had cracks everywhere.
* 4"x 8"x 16" solid blocks.
How could such a disaster happen? Where is the control in China and where is the inspection that allowed a faulty product into the country?
There is no QC in a communist state--only profit worship. RUclips videos on how the Chinese will put ANYTHING into their products to make it look decent and plentiful so they can profit. This is why Chinese won't buy their own cars or their own milk powder--ADV China covers this topic. In the construction over there, new buildings actually have cardboard and other junk in the materials and the buildings start falling apart after less than five years. Chinese buy real estate only to sell it to someone else and make a profit because the places aren't even safe to live in. They're ghost cities.
COMMUNISM DONT YOU JUST LUV CHINA .MEDS NOW COME FROM CHINA WITH ARSENIC WAKE UP OR DIE!!!!!!!!!!
How is this much different than Corporations dumping toxic waste in private landfills, then compacting the soil in preparation for housing development. Recognize this story yet?
Love Canal
At $3 a sheet you still probably paid $33 a sheet and then another $70 to $100 a sheet finished. So the $3 a sheet means nothing except to the brokers who brought it in to stuff their pockets. The root of all evil is still the king.
curt wehrmeyer and that guys quote of 22 dollars a sheet is bullshit they pay more like 6 dollars for the 1/2" drywall a few dollars more for the 5/8" fire rated board which is primarily used in commercial construction and apartment complexes these contractors buy 10's of thousands of sheets a year they get wholesale price the $ went to the drywall manufacturers I worked as a drywall hanger/finisher for 30 yrs
Sad for those families...but think of the poor guys that hang that stuff all day long. The occupational hazards are potentially horrifying
should stop the hoa fees asap. an sued the hoa for using chinese made dry wall. in the first place.
I'm a real estate appraiser and I have seen defective construction up close recently in the Del Mar California Highlands and in Mira Mesa San Diego. I am intrigued by this report because it renders the value of these houses to worthless. No one with any knowledge of market value will go anywhere near these houses including the greedy real estate investors. If they don't want the house then that should tell you something. However you might be able to get one of the investors who boasts " We buy houses any condition" to purchase your house. I feel bad for these homeowners who got stuck with these toxic houses simply because of the absolute greed of the Developers as well as the third world standards of China.
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FWIW, this is one of the problems that happens when you get a house built, or buy a house, and know little or nothing about homebuilding. And that goes for pretty much everything else (cars, insurance, computers, land or a herd of cattle). Educate yourself about every type of major purchase, because you can't really trust anyone else to watch your back.
Lenny Tompkins
100% agree. That is what I've been learning for decades now. This is also true with health-care and education but almost everything else as well.
They don't care! Greed is America's god.
The viable resolution is to remove the sheet rock and replace it .
This is something the government should be helping people to fix in their homes. Offer low-cost loans, etc. no one should have to go through this.
She must be rich to pay 8 grand a month for housing OMG 😳 and still has to pay for everything else !!!
you are getting away from the point here…who cares how much money she has..that is totally irrelevant…these people have been ripped off of their hard earned..not to mention the damage to their health…despicable!
They could afford to install new drywall
@@gofaraway thats not the point …it should have been done right the first time…can’t you see that?
STOP FOREIGN AID !! Buy U.S. MADE !! This is the ultimate result of sending jobs away from America !! God Bless America and President Trump bringing our manufacturing jobs home !! Prayers to all affected.
You realize that most of the Trump's family factories are in China right?
@@bogey2230 You realize no one cares what a faceless, nameless coward who hides has to say. Right ? SMMFH
If facts hurt, call a doctor.
bogey, Instead of spouting a FACTLESS post how about providing some PROOF to back it up. Here's a FACT for you to dwell on. Unemployment is at a record low of 3.9%. There are more job openings, then people looking for work. This along with a LOT of other positive economic FACTS is due to the policies of President Trump and his Administration.
Here's a graph illustrating the Unemployment rate for the last ten years. Since the country was in a shit show during the crisis of 05-08 when unemployment rate was at a record low. The graph will show the rate rising about 1 year into President Obama's term and continue to rise. It's not Trump pal...it's the policies that were passed during Obama's tenure. Listed Facts below.
www.bls.gov/charts/state-employment-and-unemployment/state-unemployment-rates-animated.htm
www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/national-employment-monthly-update.aspx ( this second chart shows the rate dropping about 1% since President Trump has been in office).
"...This along with a LOT of other positive economic FACTS is due to the policies of President Trump and his Administration" = conjecture
They can afford a mortgage and live in a rental. Thats the real crime.
And now people are clamoring to buy cheap Chinese EVs.
Yeah..Selling Americans A Money Pit 😂😂 That keeps on Giving
Oooops! How'd that fire get started? Glad I just upped my Home Owners Insurance.😀
It is eroding plastic and corroding metal and they dont know if it is a health problem? What do you think its doing to your lungs skin stomach?
James yea those ppl with the triplet babies need to get the fuck out of that house. What are they thinking? If I had tiny babies and heard I had this the first thing I’d do is get them out of there.
What's just a kick in the teeth is that the county zoning boards are who require all these unaffordable ridiculous "building codes," (which force the use of cheap materials), then refuse to allow anyone to go off grid and live truly healthy the way the pioneers did. The govt writes all these zoning laws (saying it's for health and safety reasons when it's really just to keep us paying out the nose for "the grid"), then they claim ignorance when their China bedmates send us "death boards."
What we have is a system so knee deep in greed and the regulations that cater to that greed, that it will take a lifetime of newly born citizens, full of youth who will see the scam and rise up to fight it. Bc the living generations now are far too brainwashed to see the forest for the trees.
I agree with that with the exception of suburban areas. I live in a suburban area, I cannot put a septic system in my area without negatively affecting my neighbors. Out in the sticks though, it should not matter. If a house is structurally sound and hygienic, then it should not matter. There are log cabins that still exist today that were built hundreds of years ago. They still exist because of regular upkeep. My parents grew up using shit houses on farms. My 20's were spent in the military where you basically used shit houses. It's not rocket science.
I now work in the HVAC industry. I have a pretty good understanding of the dangers of high humidity. Too much humidity produces black mold. How do you avoid this? First you make sure your house is built on a base of rock that drains water away from the structure. Then you start looking at insulation and ways to vent the house. If the home has proper drainage, then bacterial growth is limited in the summer and is killed off in the winter. Then it becomes an issue of regular maintenance.
We have technology now that makes it so you do not need to live on the power grid. Solar panels have come along way. I love the idea of these things. I want to build a log cabin with a few solar panels for small things that I feel are necessary. Nothing wrong with using a wood stove out in the woods for heating, considering we've been doing that for 400+ years (Previously we used fire places).
Ryan but LOW Humidity causes HEALTH issues, BLACK MOLD on/in Dry-Walls is a major problem across the units I dwell, but during the winter humidity drops to the teens which is unhealthy, and even when you engage in humidifier it only brings it to 20's which causes Bronchitis and Dry Nose & Throat issues for me and my granddaughter.
Back in the day, the old folks would put a pot on the stove and slowly heat the water to put water in the air. It works. Doesn't work so well with electric stoves though. Electric stoves suck compared to gas stoves.
Yeah, "healthy"...guess that is why the average life span of a pioneer was 42 years.
Spazcan, well now their life span would measure to 10-15yrs with Tainted Dry-Wall
That’s what you get for not making sure Americans are providing
I would rather pay 7 times the price for quality products that are going to last and not make you sick. If the Chinese drywall didn't cause these problems it would be a good deal, but that's simply not the case.
04GT40th the problem is, you don't know until....
i hung drywall for 26 years, thankfully i quit the trade before that crap hit the market, hangers breathe dust from that stuff everyday, USG brand sheetrock used to be one of the best quality board on the market, guess their company went overseas like all the rest. CELOTEX is the best, not sure if they are still quality or not
Good to know 👍
Sorry, there is no asbestos in Drywall,just Gypsum and Fiberglass except in this case we have sulfer?? wth. the fiberglass is bad enough :D 30+ years hanging\taping,finish I did....Hard work but it was fun imo, it was a trade off;)
I used to haul wallboard. Most of it came from Fort Dodge, Iowa, Kansas, River Rouge Mi, Minnesota, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Hammond, Indiana. All made in American plants where I picked up or delivered. Whether it was Celotex or USG. This was around 2005-2007.
Sir-I am HOPING YOU ARE UNION BROTHER
If its "eating away your home" WHAT DO YOU THINK ITS DOING TO YOU?!?!?! duhhhhhhhhhhh
marilyn at the same time- you leave, you don’t just sit there and rot. But I do get your point. It’s ruining metal.
Id like to see a follow up report about what happened and how many of those homes are still out there being sold to unsuspecting peo0le.
My wife and I Knew of this when we finally left the Garbage Dump of California and were looking at homes in Henderson, Nevada.
We directly asked the realtor if these homes were made from toxic Chinese drywall, and she answered YES -
She HAD to disclose or face Huge lawsuit.
We went to Utah instead -
Excuse me, did you know there are lot of things from China or indirectly? Henderson is a newly improved town, just becareful!!!!
yeah- henderson is like shangri-la.... wow. people in vegas call it 'hender-hole'....we're glad you left.
@@khoavo7111
I honestly Don't Know what in the world you're trying to say ...
@@tommurphy4307
Thank you - us too !
Please avoid buying things from China.
answer= fire insurance.
i would have sued the company who built that home and the drywall company.
I heard about this in 2012 when I had a passing interest in fixing up homes for rentals. There were a bunch of guys in the south that had to rip apart entire homes to get rid of the shit drywall.
Go ahead and try. Those corporations will kick your ass in court.
Another sad part is the insurance company in Florida won't cover it
I feel bad for them. I bought a house that turned out to have waxy mold growing out of the base of the walls in the basement bathroom and bedroom. I also discovered mushrooms growing under a carpet in the basement closet. Now, it was obvious that the previous owner was aware of it...because I removed the mold from the walls and under the carpet and of course, several months later it was back. That proved to me that he knew about it. The inspector did not catch it somehow...or maybe he just didn't write it up. At the time of the inspection, the mold coming out of the walls was absent. Of course I complained to the mortgage company but they had little sympathy...I signed off on the inspection so it was basically my problem. I was not in a position to move out of the house and pay for the family to live somewhere else. I could not sell it like that...well...I would not sell it like that. In the end, I went into foreclosure and lost the place. But in the long run, it was better. The previous owner's wife was sick all of the time...and now we know why.
Well you should sued the Inspector, and the builder..in must cases is the A/C system is to big, olso concrete slab or foundation problems was not insulated, or has water leaks some where hasn't been detected yet.
@@saulduke1549 Doesn’t work that way.
You had mold in the basement ?!
… they all do
@@arthurduncan5838 I do A/C for leaving I got plenty customer who had mold in the entair house..basements you need put humidifier system in..but previously chek for insulation issues.. get it dry really good, treated it with clorox vented for 2 weeks check again .
@@saulduke1549 What ever brings the mold has to be removed or it comes back, right? Well since basements are in the ground, isn’t that all but impossible in most cases? The source usually inside the house but in the dirt… right?
and we want to do business with this country. America needs to become self sufficient and stop importing shit from this country. they do it on purpose and should be sued
I bought my first house 40 years ago. It was a simple 1400 Sq ft house no frills we called them starter homes. Now a first time home buyer wants 5000+ Sq ft with all the bells and whistles. The builders are forced to build to a price point to sell them.
Blaming China for the things AMERICA BOUGHT 🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
They need to hold these builders financially liable. Of course even if they do they'll go bankrupt and go up with a different name and these families would never see any money.
If it's doing that to the house, what's it doing to the lungs?
US invented drywall we can make it here jobs
Wonder if any current politician got 10% of the sales on the Chinese drywall?
In most countries in Europe this could not happen. Legal remedies against the builders would require them to replace within the first 10 years any structural faults. The U.S do not offer ax much consumer protection in any field, and as a result the small guy gets ripped off continually
I remember a fire 🔥 in London where the high rise apartments were covered with materials that were made in China 🇨🇳, places burnt like match boxes !
@@hummingbirdredhand6729 That building was an infused govt. scam and "allowed" by govt. and society employees that knew nothing about building.
"Consumer protection" in both Canada and the USA is a province/state responsibility. When you have an entire COUNTRY set a standard it gets vetted pretty good. In the USA your "freedom fry" states like Texas and Florida LOVE to let builders off the hook, as they're the ones that vote Republican. Canada isn't much better: Alberta (the Texas of Canada) is freedom fry, while in BC Alberta owners in our area are "surprised" by the aggressive OVER SITE of stupidity.
$8000.00 a month? Wtf do they do?
C. Lassard no body's business .
They need to buy a trailer house then.
8k a month is a hair under 100k a year. many corperate level jobs pay well more than that, or they could be doctors making 250k+ a year, enough to make 8k a month in expenses seem "reasonable" to them. Glad i was raised poor. as i move up the ladder and make more and more money in my career, i continue living the same as always. excess goes into investment accounts so i can retire at 45 and live off interest. i pity people who dont know the value of money and what can be done with it when your not wasting it.
C. Lassard must be in Calif
fakiirification Amen, some people dont know what they have.
I mean there's a reason we all mock by using the term Made in China to mean poor quality and this is one example.of it. Sure they're cheaper, but at what cost? Getting sued for building a dangerous house?
Wth do ppl expect from China??? Smh
Wth do ppl expect from China??? Smh
How do you test your drywall?
That's the biggest question I have.
I own a house with a huge stack of drywall that was never installed.
Long story.
So how so I check if it's that Chinese drywall they're talking about.
I don't want to just throw it away, unless it's no good.
If good it's worth a bit of money.
To throw it way isn't cheap.
So how would I know if I should use it or cart it away?
In the United Kingdom we have a two tier certification process for the building industry. New products can gain access into the market through an Agrement Certificate. This certificate gives initial acceptance to supply for a period with a list of tests that have been conducted. After a certified agreed length of time the manufacturer / import agent applies for a British Standard Certificate. This process is as strickly controlled by our local standards officers employed by the local council. Any illegal products will be notified to their office.
We also have a 10 year builder's Home Guarantee scheme in which constructors certify their construction. This is not so easy to police since small builders close one day and open again with a slightly different name days later.
This home guarehtee schrme includes sewerage and electrical systems in the street.
Dry Wall is very easy to put up so I should think it will be quite easy to resolve.
A PE Engineer in the US will advise further.
I have always bought old houses. You know what your getting usually, bad materials have usually been vetted out. These new houses are throw away houses and they want a fortune for them.
I think the emphasis on building houses that are virtually air-tight makes the problem worse for air-breathers. I've got windows open, year-round. Run the house fan most of the time, except peak heat times.
There is no choice, you have to replace the drywall. Room at a time if necessary and everyone in this story could do it with the right equipment.
take it off and get the China antidote spray then put it back on, now 30% higher
It would probably be more cost-effective in the long run to knock the house down and build a new house with the proper materials because everything in those houses is contaminated. You have to replace all the electrical, Plumbing, air conditioning then the drywall and trim. It would take the rest of your life doing it one room at a time.
And you guys are mad that Dinald Trump taking the Industry back to America?
Liberals are sick in the head---they have trouble on which bathroom to use each day...
We could never afford our own products because our labor is too high. If we made products in America, they would make them even more unsafe and crappier than china to help bring costs to somewhere near affordable. Communism is terrible, but capitalism is JUST as bad.
tRump is part of the problem.
Trump licks Zionist rump.
Whole Brain Productions
Trump wasn't involved in this in 2009, No Brain Productions!!!
How ridiculous. That company and its American retailer should be soon. As well as anyone else involved. Anybody remember the lead in Chinese cat and dog food. Then there was the lead found in Chinese made toothbrushes.
There's a lot of KARMA happening here. I don't feel sorry for these homeowners and I'll tell you why. I lived in Florida for 25 years. Most people in the State are very corrupt from the Developers, Real Estate Sales Agents/Brokers, Religious Leaders, Organizations, Environmental Contractors, business owners and homeowners etc and even the poor slaves so everyone is suffering KARMA. I know because I lived in Florida for about 25 years and as a former Corporate executive, Business owner etc etc, I saw the corruption and mistreatment of the poor especially when it came to unfair treatment and bullying of employees because it"s a state of employment at will. When you work hard and get to the top, they want you to be corrupt and treat others as peons and when you don't they will fight you down. Yes I fell into poverty helping people and they just abandoned me to die. Another thing is that these homeowners will be shooting for the stars and will rig up every excuse they can find to get more than they deserve and that cheating the Government comes out of the poor hard working taxpayers and slaves of the State. You got to expeerience it all to know what I'm talking about as an honest person. Florida is a wicked state that"s why God is continuously allowing hurricanes along it's path and yes, it's all coming from the coast of Africa. Is is science or coincidence or KARMA. So the moral of this message is that God is watching and you should always do the right thing even when people are not fair to you. God will reward you, if not here, then in Heaven. Hell will be full and hotter than Florida. We will all expire one day. Jesus is the only hope.
Most ignorant comment I have seen all day.
Trump2024
PLEASE REPENT, GET SAVED PEOPLE AND LIVE FOR JESUS CHRIST SO YOU CAN GO TO HEAVEN AND NOT HELL WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR LAST BREATH ON THIS EARTH.
I guess there are 2 alternatives: Remove cabinetry and accessories, then all drywall and rebuild the interior. Or, take the whole home apart and rebuild it. Of course no matter what's done, it starts with a lawsuit...
Chinese dry wall, toys baby formula
Replace the drywall Rather than spend 8 grand a month!!
you wouldn't even need to do the whole house in one go
Pacific NW Native for real
Everything in the house is Tainted. You'd have to knock the house down and build a new one.
8000 dollars buys a lot of sheetrock and mud
Pacific NW Native thats impossible with out rebuilding the whole house. The dry wall is through out the whole house & rebuilding would cost more than the 4 to 5k extra theyre paying for rent. They couldnt put the whole 8k a month towards rebuilding because theyre still paying a mortgage. I applaud them for getting their kids outta there. Anything that corodes copper by simply being in the air has to be harmful to humans
If anything in your home that has copper in it and it turned black chances are your home is poisoning you with some type of gas or poison!
I'm glad I live in a barn. It's infested with Black Widow spiders but they never seem to bother me. I used OSB for all my walls. That way you don't have to find a stud to hang shit up. Texture it and you're ready for paint. Plus, when you get angry and throw a wrench it doesn't stick inside the wall, it just bounces off...lol...
That doesn’t make sense.
They’re paying $8k a month, (these days that’s probably closer to 12k!) when they could have the drywall replaced for probably 20k. Why wouldn’t they just get a loan to replace the drywall so they can move back into their home soon?
Please tell me if you know what would happen if this installed drywall got dripping wet? Would it put out toxic fumes? It did in my rental. Caused me sudden severe breathing problems and near died. Hot water tank in apt above emptied into my ground floor apt. Apt owner says it wasn't the leak. It was very toxic. Even the ambulance drivers got sick coming in to get me.
If the drywall gets wet, it grows black mold. The mold is killing you.
Hi Masha. Do you have any links I can use to investigate the wet drywall and wet insulation that made me sick? My landlord is saying it did not make me sick and I am making it up. He is trying to evict me for getting sick. Thanks.
David Copperfield-not the magician ...contact your local housing authority. Why would you want to stay in a place that you know is killing you?
I don't want to stay in a place that is toxic. The owner has torn out all of the wet insulation, drywall and carpet. They sprayed it with mold killer and then sprayed it with a sealant per a Mold Specialist recommended. It is fine now but they are ticked over the cost and are trying to evict me now...rentals are very hard to find. Thanks!
David Copperfield-not the magician if you go to court, you'll probably win.
Sue the chinese manufacturer at the world court.
No, sue the builders that used this material.
Pixibelle So, you just want to let the OEM's slide? Why?
JP Morgan If you had any knowledge of the entity of the OEM that manufactures this product you wouldnt have embarassed yourself with your comment. JP Morgan indeed. Your use of the best robber baron in history most assuredly has him spinning in his grave.
Yeah right! Trump is just about to trash the ICC, as we speak.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/09/10/trump-administration-to-take-tough-stance-against-the-hagues-icc.html
Vanessa Costa Isn't it lovely, how he's rigging everything to fuck over the planet and the poor, so the rich may get richer? Make America Greed Again. I think the rest of the world will band together and rise against this evil empire, in a matter of time. I think in 2022, April or May. I love America, the land, the good people. The government has become an evil empire, loyal to money over morality. It would be nice if a large meteor hit the earth, at such a high speed we never saw it coming. Poof....a cloud of dust, in a few seconds. ...maybe next time life advances this far, love will overpower greed. With the current situation, a sudden painless death for all, would be merciful indeed. The future, as it's coming now, is sure to provide a slow and painful death for most humans.
LOOK at ALL "made in china" items! Stop supporting Russia's and China's illegal weapons sales! Almost all or more of the chinese purchases go to weapons support (even for maifia bands) I stopped buying anything "ANYTHING" made in china for a good 2 years now! Let's start the TREND!!!
An update on this situation and on the families' health so many years later. I did see where a law was passed in 2012 against hazardous drywall imports...do you have a follow-up story?
Its your responsibility to insure that no Chinese products are used in your home, they have virtually no quality control
Virtually? That's being awfully generous... lmao
Their entire economy is state run and directed business in china is only beholden to the state not customers or shareholders...
Even IF they had third party testing organizations (Like UL in USA for example "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_Recognized_Testing_Laboratory") they would still be beholden to state and wouldn't be trustworthy... I'm sure a hypothetical "third party" testing company would certify a pinto as safe... lmfao china is nothing more than a rapidly developing third world country with a bubble that is going to burst soon it's completely unsustainable.
M
Yes in America we should Boycott Sams Club Costco and Walmart I bought a pair of tennis shoes at Warmart and less than 2 weeks the soles came unglued Warmart would not take them BACK,!!!!!
You are pretty dumb aren't you.... You get what you pay for
So it's an HOA and yet they somehow let this shit happened but god forbid you planted the wrong grass or a tree.
I would just strip all the drywall out and live in the house without drywall if I can't afford to drywall it with good stuff. Which if you're in a house that expensive you should be able to afford the new drywall unless you're living beyond your means.
Why am I not surprised that the thing you need the insurance to cover just happens to be the thing it does not cover.
systematic101 HOA is responsible for the structure of their homes. HOA takes care of the appearance of the community, and the financial wellbeing.
Tommy Ferrigno
So then this should fall under the HOA then?
systematic101 appearance as in landscaping, common areas. So no it doesn't fall under them.
Tommy Ferrigno
You said "HOA is responsible for the structure of their homes" and "the financial wellbeing" how does this not fit both of those? It's going to be pretty difficult to sell that house with that drywall now wouldn't it?
in florida i went 3 time to Hospital I work for a company that installed wood and wire shelving and was sick I got real sick
The builders knew but did not care
What RUclips needs to do is show all the "thumbs down" totalls too! this is becoming irritating! We need to see the truth even in "RUclips!"
Wolfie D totally agree with you, balance is always good.
Now ye understand mate! that be he point A be aimin fer! "Hey RUclips" ! READ this comment!!!