Chinese Drywall Toxic?

Councilman Jim Wood will ask the City Council on Tuesday to ban the use of Chinese drywall when constructing or renovating a building in the city. Wood said he has confirmation that gypsum wallboard imported from China was used in Virginia Beach in 2006 and 2007. The ordinance would require contractors to certify they are [...]

NEW ORLEANS — The Environmental Protection Agency has found suspect materials in a small sampling of Chinese-made drywall, adding weight to fears that the house-building staple may be causing corrosion in homes and possibly sickening people in several states, a report released Tuesday said. The EPA tested Chinese-made wallboard in two Florida homes and discovered [...]

What’s in Chinese drywall? Federal environmental officials think they may have some answers: sulfur, strontium, and iron, for starters. Recently concluded tests by the Environmental Protection Agency showed that Chinese-made drywall has high amounts of sulfur, which isn’t commonly found in U.S. drywall. Strontium levels and iron concentrations were significantly higher in the imported wallboard, [...]

WASHINGTON – Congress can be a complicated place, driven by a multitude of lawmakers, agencies and advocates all advancing their own agendas — issues ranging from the most obscure to the most sweeping. At some point, though, certain topics reach something of a critical mass. They cross over from local concerns or parochial disputes to [...]

It all started with a whiff of sulphur. In the home of Kathy Foster and Drew Rohnke, and in some of the other houses throughout their two-year-old subdivision in Boynton Beach, Fla., the smell was noxious — like a box of lit matches, or rotten eggs. Not to mention that their new air conditioning unit [...]

Councilman Jim Wood will ask the City Council Tuesday to ban the use of Chinese drywall when constructing or renovating a building in the city. Wood said he has confirmation that gypsum wallboard imported from China was used in Virginia Beach in 2006 and 2007. The ordinance would require contractors to certify they are not [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 22 /PRNewswire/ — A leading forensic expert on building envelope water intrusion and toxic mold, Spiderman Mulholland, and his forensic division at U.S. Building Consultants, Inc. has determined that air sampling is not an effective method for determining the presence of toxic Chinese drywall corrosions. Although air sampling may indicate some levels [...]

A request for $2 million in emergency funding for Chinese drywall failed to move forward in the U.S. Senate late Thursday after procedural wrangling blocked its advance. External Links: The funding had been requested by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., in order to expedite testing by the Consumer Product Safety Commission [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 21 /PRNewswire/ — The forensic experts at U.S. Building and Consultants, Inc., are in the final stages of developing a protocol for inspection and remediation to the toxic Chinese drywall problem facing the nation today. Spiderman Mulholland, the leading investigator, appreciates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their findings regarding high levels [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –- On Thursday, the first Congressional hearing into Chinese drywall will take place in Washington. The Senate Commerce Committee will meet at 10:30a.m. to discuss freeing up additional funds for testing, and helping homeowners. Florida’s Senator Bill Nelson and fellow Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana have been pushing the Federal government to take [...]