Nov. 19–TAMPA– When the toenails of Patrick and Ilknur Bradshaw’s two young girls fell off this summer, they say their doctor blamed their house. The -made damaged their air conditioning unit and appliances, and they think it contributed …
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Some of these can be a headache down the road. Just ask the thousands of homeowners whose homes contain recycled fly ash from Chinese power plants. This fly ash, used as filler in some brands of drywall, is a byproduct of burning high-sulfur Chinese coal.
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A Florida building supply company is suing a German conglomerate for $100 million over defective Chinese drywall installed in tens of thousands of homes, many of them in Florida. Banner Supply Co. charged in the lawsuit filed Friday in New Orleans federal …
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Lydia Adorno’s kitchen was her pride and joy. As a new Habitat for Humanity homeowner in 2007, the 55-year-old Adorno spent days pouring over tile samples at Home Depot to pick out the perfect backsplash for her kitchen. She looked at …
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It was nice to see another sign of relief for victims of tainted Chinese drywall. Last week, it was proposed that Miami’s Banner Supply Co. — or more precisely its insurers — pay $55 million to settle claims by homeowners over the tainted drywall that …
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The agency studied 11 homes which their owners said were built with U.S.-made drywall but which are exhibiting problems typically associated with Chinese drywall . The report said drywall in five of the houses was “consistent with problem drywall,” which …
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The National Association of Home Builders is scheduled to publicly release its own testing and remediation guidelines for Chinese drywall on Wednesday. But the report, obtained by the Herald-Tribune, is already coming under fire from some experts for …
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THE NEW ORLEANS BRANCH OF Habitat for Humanity has agreed to buy back one of its homes built with contaminated Chinese drywall in the high-profile Musicians’ Village neighborhood. Brian Morgan, a classical organist and former Catholic monk, first spoke to …
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has found no link between tainted Chinese drywall and the deaths of 11 people living in homes with the defective drywall in Louisiana , Florida and Virginia. The CDC said in a …
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NEW ORLEANS – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday it has found no link between tainted Chinese drywall and the deaths of 11 people exposed to the imported drywall in Florida, Louisiana and Virginia homes. The CDC said in a report …
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