Chinese Drywall Toxic?

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tests of high-sulfur Chinese drywall have confirmed differences between the imported material and U.S.-made drywall, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Tuesday. The new EPA tests showed the Chinese-made drywall contained sulfur that was not in U.S. drywall, strontium (a metallic element) at levels 10 times as high as in U.S. drywall [...]

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, [...]

A top Mobile developer will testify before Congress Tuesday regarding building material that his company claims has damaged dozens of houses. Chuck Stefan, vice president of The Mitchell Company Inc., claims that Chinese drywall his company used in 36 houses in Prichard and 12 houses in Pensacola is defective. Stefan is set to testify before [...]

PARKLAND, Florida (CNN) — Sherri and Ira Rojhani stopped paying the mortgage on their 2-year-old South Florida home in April, victims not of a troubled economy, but, they say, of drywall from China that they believe is making them sick. They join a growing list of homeowners in 13 states who face foreclosure or the [...]

The room picked for Ryleigh Jo Baker’s nursery is nearly empty. The walls have not been painted pink as Joe and Brittany Baker had planned to do before Ryleigh’s expected arrival early this summer. Also missing is Ryleigh’s crib, which used to be her father’s when he was a baby — it sits unassembled, in [...]

Colleen Nguyen and her husband own a spacious, 4,000-square-foot brick home in the Little Neck area. But they and their three children live in an RV parked in the driveway. They’ve lived there for four weeks, after a doctor recommended they leave their home because of health problems they believe were caused by Chinese-made drywall. [...]

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Senate subcommitee has scheduled a long-awaited hearing on the issue of tainted Chinese drywall. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance has scheduled the hearing for 10:30 a.m. on May 21. The defective imported wallboard has been found in hundreds of homes [...]

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold its first hearing on the issue of tainted drywall, tied to extensive corrosion in hundreds of homes in Florida and elsewhere, and blamed by many homeowners for health problems. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation formally announced Thursday morning that a hearing on tainted Chinese drywall [...]

A federal bankruptcy court judge has granted a motion for homeowners in Parkland to file Chinese drywall-related claims against builder WCI Communities Inc. until the end of this month, effectively extending the claim deadline past the original Feb. 2 date. This appears to be the first motion entered and granted allowing late-filed claims to Bonita [...]

Worried your home is tainted with Chinese drywall? Don’t make things worse by falling for bogus test kits or false claims of quick remedies. Scores of cash-strapped homeowners across Florida may have to deal with damage related to the defective imported drywall, so you can almost sit back and watch the con artists coming out [...]