Chinese drywall complaints to the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) have now surpassed 800. According to an update on the CPSC’s website, Chinese drywall problems have cropped up in at least 23 states.
For months now, we have reported on homeowner complaints regarding Chinese drywall. Earlier this year, tests conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that Chinese-manufactured drywall contained elevated levels of strontium sulfide, as well as several organic compounds associated with the production of acrylic paint which were not present in samples of U.S.-made drywall.
According to the CPCS, most of the 810 Chinese drywall complaints it has received since last December have come from Florida (621). The state with the second highest count is Louisiana (105). Others have come from consumers in Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia.
Consumers largely report that their homes were built in 2006 to 2007, when an unprecedented increase in new construction occurred in part due to the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, the CPSC said. Common features of the reports submitted to the CPSC from homes believed to contain problem Chinese drywall have been:
reports of a “rotten egg” smell in homes.
reports of health concerns such as irritated and itchy eyes and skin, difficulty in breathing, persistent cough, bloody noses, runny noses, recurrent headaches, sinus infection, and asthma attacks.
reports of blackened and corroded metal components in homes and the frequent replacement of components in air conditioning units
It’s estimated that more than 500 million pounds of possibly deficient Chinese drywall entered America between 2004 and 2008. An Associated Press report said that was enough material to build about 100,000 homes.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 am
What about the enviro?
Florida residents must remember the mountains of waste and remnants that were on the streets after each hurricane, now when beginning repairing the houses with that Chinese drywall, you can imagine those same mountains, but made of this Drywall and emitting strontium sulfide, just where our children playing, at the front of the house or to the side of our gardens, parks or schools.
This will have a big cost, who will pay?
August 4th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
The Warehouse that used for selecting and classifying the Chinese Drywall who came from Knauf Tianjin, still smells like rotten eggs and burning eyes, if you stay a while.
In that place they received the containers from the port, download the container and then load the trucks for each distributor, store or developer, some distributors or developers were so big that they receiving containers directly.
This was the Warehouse and some offices of “La Suprema Enterprise” in 4456 NW 74th Avenue in Miami Florida 33166. Next to the Palmetto Expwy.
August 6th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Farah said what is true, I work there helping to load, and the smell was unbearable, Mr. Salomon’s friends advised him to write the manufacturer and ask for a report about the smell..
The worst moment was when I had to sort and re-loading trucks, or when entering the container to get out the drywall with the forklift.
Sorry boss but the moment arrives.
August 8th, 2009 at 5:24 am
That is an abuse, that Mr. Salomon Homsany knew perfectly what Kind of Garbage he import, I found that report in the web.
As it is possible that the demand to make an analysis at the same factory that sells it. Here we have laboratories that could have revised and resolve the Problem, Maybe China is Cheapest or in this case he can’t pay nothing.
He was only interested to seize the moment and the price for filling his pockets with money that now must pays for his scam.
Everyone knew there was trouble with this product..
http://www.chinesedrywall.com/files/CTECH_Report.pdf