Boycott China or DIE1 Drywall Edition

[LongTomH]

Run time: 07:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9sNhUs60RQ   Posted on YouTube: May 21, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 21, 2009 By DU Member: LongTomH Views on DU: 943

 
"Smells like someone lit a lot of matches!" What it's like to live in a house with Chinese drywall.

The way this is labeled promises some more "Boycott China or DIE!" videos. I'll be looking forward to them!

[tomm2thumbs]

1. thanks for posting

- wonder if this is affecting any military construction, either here or abroad

[Skink]

2. Can we make drywall here in America?

This is Walmart at work.

[izquierdista]

6. Economics

Lots of drywall is made in America. In Las Vegas, there is a large drywall plant just south of town, and it's very cheap there. Transportation is what bumps up the cost of drywall in LA and FL, since they probably don't have a local gypsum mine. I still wonder at how much the Chinese can be making per sheet after they pay the freight cost of shipping it halfway around the world.

[Dollface]

8. Apparenttly there was a shortage at one point. But it is cheaper (or so they thought).

Federal authorities say they are investigating just how much of the wallboard was imported. Shipping records analyzed by the AP show that more than 540 million pounds of plasterboard — which includes both drywall and ceiling tile panels — was imported from China between 2004 and 2008, although it's unclear whether all of that material was problematic or only certain batches.

Most of it came into the country in 2006, following a series of Gulf Coast hurricanes and a domestic shortage brought on by the national housing boom.

http://www.azstarnet.com/business/288385

[raystorm7]

3. Been keeping track of this story. Its beyond F'd up having to deal with this issue at a time like =/

[dothemath]

4. slightly off-topic, I know

Is the lady in red 9 feet tall or is the lady in black 3 feet tall?

Just askin ...................

[izquierdista]

5. "Viable solutions"

Translation: "you're fucked, and you have no options."

Talk about a toxic asset, this is not just figurative, it's literally true if SO2 and H2S being emitted.

[EnviroBat]

7. New homes are built like shit anyway. How does this not suprise me.

Home building and contracting are "greed-based" industries. I'd be willing to bet most of the particle-board shit in a "New Home" is Chinese crap.

[Dollface]

9. Drywall is not the only defective building material China exports. Defective Chinese steel tubing

had to be replaced in mid-construction last year at a high school gym in California; New Zealand and the Philippines have discovered defective Chinese cement in some of their infrastructure projects; and there have been reports of flawed Chinese tempered glass and rebar overseas and in the U.S.

[unapatriciated]

10. We have been boycotting China for over a year...

It was hard at first but became easier with time.
The downside was solar lighting which we wanted to put in our yard. The components for the lights were made in california then shipped to china for the decorative outer shell.
If anyone knows a manufacture that makes solar lights not partially manufactured in China let us know, we are still looking.
The upside was we began saving money by not buying stuff we really didn't need.

For us it was a human rights issue, now that it is a health issue maybe more will boycott.

[NJCher]

11. questions

Wonder what that short lady and her husband do that they can afford to pay out 8-10 gs a month for housing?

I really feel for these people. From what the contractor said, it sounds like the structure itself, minus the drywall, has to go. That means plumbing, electrical, everything.

Who is going to hold China to task for this?


Cher