Chinese drywall - the great drywall of China problem

Chinese drywall - is it all over the news. Like a plague with disastrous consequences, the mere reference to wipe out at home can values in affected communities. Houses are Association force, House and apartment owners, already struggling with the down real estate market, guilty with sick houses affect the well-being of their families, to deny financially troubled builders and their claims insurance companies. Everyone is looking after someone blame and lawyers are class-action lawsuit scream.

What is exactly the problem?

Otherwise as drywall manufactured in domestic Chinese drywall reported that coal contain volatile sulfur compounds and fly ash, a by-product. These elements in moisture, such as such as high humidity, produce gases that structural problems in homes and cause serious health problems were reported.

Gases such as sulphur dioxide, together with a strong smell of rotten eggs to destroy, air-conditioning systems and other devices, reported cause the corroding of electrical wiring and copper and lead to serious health problems among the home residents.

The health problems associated with Chinese drywall include:

Headache Sinus infections Cough Respiratory infections Difficulty breathing Nose bleeds Eye irritation
Why this happen?

The real estate boom from 2001 to 2007 creates a never unprecedented demand on building materials. This boom together with the efforts to rebuild after the hurricanes in the 2004 and 2005 led to lack of many elements including drywall is a common method for the construction of interior walls. To fill the demand, the records indicate that more than £ 500 million Chinese were imported drywall and plaster board in the United States between 2004 and 2008. In 2006 an estimated Chinese came drywall 11 million pounds through Port Canaveral, Florida alone.

Which areas are affected?

So far, problems have reported with Chinese drywall, primarily in the Southeast, where humidity and moist conditions exist and much of the new building of recent years has taken place. Problems have been discovered so far in Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and California.

What is next?

This is just the beginning of the problems that we are likely to occur due to a toxic Chinese drywall. A federal class-action lawsuit has been already certified in Louisiana and Florida, residents of many large developments have banded together to file class-action lawsuits against developers, contractors and manufacturers of defective drywall. Litigation on damage and rehabilitation of property claims might be not the only effect, when scientific studies of linking this reported health issues and the Chinese drywall set up gases. Toxic tort litigation, similar to the asbestos and mesothelioma, could bind our court system years.

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