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Posted by on October 30, 2009, 2:41 pm
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:31:05 -0400, "JoeSpareBedroom"
>Because it's interesting, and because there are people who prefer not to buy
>defective and/or dangerous shit from dictatorships.
At the time people were buying this drywall they just felt lucky to
get any drywall from anywhere. It was right after Katrina and in the
middle of a building boom that had already swallowed up all the
drywall the US could produce.
A few companies like Centex Homes got in front of this problem and
built their own drywall plants but most just bought at the market
price..
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Posted by JoeSpareBedroom on October 30, 2009, 2:55 pm
>> > Retirednoguilt wrote:
>> >> HeyBub wrote:
>> >>> "[WASHINGTON] Federal product-safety regulators said Thursday that
>> >>> their sampling of Chinese drywall emits higher concentrations of
>> >>> sulfur gases and strontium than U.S.-made product, but found no
>> >>> evidence so far that the emissions were to blame for health problems
>> >>> and metal corrosion reported by at least 1,900 U.S. homeowners."
>> >>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125682903154416173.html
>> >>> Who to believe? The government or your own watery eyes?
>> >>> Let me think...
>> >> Hey Bub-
>> >> The quote you cited includes the phrase "so far". And if you look at
>> >> the full Wall Street Journal article in the URL you included in your
>> >> posting (above), the second paragraph of the full article explicitly
>> >> identifies the government's report as "preliminary".
>> >> In your rush to condemn the government, you are ignoring inconvenient
>> >> information that negates your criticism.
>> > You make a good point, yet your point raises an even more interesting
>> > question:
>> > If the results (so far) are inconclusive, equivocal, almost
>> > meaningless,
>> > and merely suggest a hint of a shadow of a possible trend, why say
>> > anything at all?
>> Because it's interesting, and because there are people who prefer not to
>> buy
>> defective and/or dangerous shit from dictatorships.
> Jesus, Joe, we don't hear anything from you for what, six months, and
> then you blindside us with a venomous non-sequitur. You didn't actually
> read the thread, did you?
If you think it's a non-sequitur, you're too busy with other tasks. Come
back when you can focus.
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Posted by on October 30, 2009, 12:24 pm
wrote:
>"[WASHINGTON] Federal product-safety regulators said Thursday that their
>sampling of Chinese drywall emits higher concentrations of sulfur gases and
>strontium than U.S.-made product, but found no evidence so far that the
>emissions were to blame for health problems and metal corrosion reported by
>at least 1,900 U.S. homeowners."
>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125682903154416173.html
>Who to believe? The government or your own watery eyes?
>Let me think...
Since SW Florida is ground zero in this mess I wonder how much of this
sulfur is coming from the drywall and how much is just coming from
their well water.
That is always a surprise for people who come here from up north.
I know a guy who is fixing two genuine chinese drywall houses as we
speak and damage to a running A/C coil seems to be the biggest problem
the drywall caused. In the other house the A/C was off and the coil is
OK. You are still stripping the walls back to the studs
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Posted by bud-- on November 6, 2009, 9:19 am
HeyBub wrote:
> "[WASHINGTON] Federal product-safety regulators said Thursday that their
> sampling of Chinese drywall emits higher concentrations of sulfur gases and
> strontium than U.S.-made product, but found no evidence so far that the
> emissions were to blame for health problems and metal corrosion reported by
> at least 1,900 U.S. homeowners."
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125682903154416173.html
>
> Who to believe? The government or your own watery eyes?
>
> Let me think...
>
A couple other drywall factoids I got from a friend:
Drywall can contain asbestos. If a material contains less than 1%
asbestos it is not regulated [1% seems rather high to me]. Some Chinese
drywall has been found to have 3% asbestos.
Drywall contains gypsum (it is also called gypsum board). Gypsum is
calcium sulfate, so 'normal' drywall contains sulfur (but bound in the
gypsum molecule).
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Posted by on November 6, 2009, 11:09 am
wrote:
>HeyBub wrote:
>> "[WASHINGTON] Federal product-safety regulators said Thursday that their
>> sampling of Chinese drywall emits higher concentrations of sulfur gases and
>> strontium than U.S.-made product, but found no evidence so far that the
>> emissions were to blame for health problems and metal corrosion reported by
>> at least 1,900 U.S. homeowners."
>>
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125682903154416173.html
>>
>> Who to believe? The government or your own watery eyes?
>>
>> Let me think...
>>
>A couple other drywall factoids I got from a friend:
>Drywall can contain asbestos. If a material contains less than 1%
>asbestos it is not regulated [1% seems rather high to me]. Some Chinese
>drywall has been found to have 3% asbestos.
>Drywall contains gypsum (it is also called gypsum board). Gypsum is
>calcium sulfate, so 'normal' drywall contains sulfur (but bound in the
>gypsum molecule).
This seems to vary from, person to person.
I was in a "drywall" house the other day. I noticed the musty smell
but it had no real affect on me. My friend had a sore throat, runny
nose and he said his eyes burned.
I do have some pictures, this is an FTP site, use your back button to
get back to the index.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Chinese%20Drywall/
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