Chinese Drywall
Chinese Drywall Inspections and Information Tampa Bay
Chinese/Corrosive Drywall Inspections Indoor Environmental Technologies IET has been involved with the Chinese/Corrosive drywall issue since 2007 testing and consulting on numerous projects and legal cases We provide Chinese drywall inspections for the Tampa Bay area and travel throughout Florida
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Chinese Drywall Issues Basics and What to Do
Chinese drywall is a term for an issue involving about 100 000 homes in 20 states where the drywall used in those homes has been found to be inferior It does not involve all drywall produced in China To this day China is a major exporter of drywall
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Chinese Drywall Fact Sheet III
Installed during the U S building boom of the mid to late 2000s defective drywall manufactured in China has prompted homeowners in dozens of U S states to evacuate their homes mostly because of the noxious odors emanating from the drywall Drywall is made of gypsum plaster which is then pressed between two thick sheets of paper
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The Ultimate Guide For Chinese Drywall Remediation
The term Chinese drywall is a reference to a type of drywall used in the earlier 2000 s that proved later on to be defective and destructive to homes It was manufactured in China hence the designation Chinese Over 100 000 homes built between 2001 and 2009 have been negatively impacted by Chinese drywall
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Chinese Drywall HazardsHome Check Inspections
Chinese drywall refers to defective drywall imported from China This drywall was used to build over 100 000 homes in 20 different states Chinese drywall is contaminated with strontium sulfide which is a harmful compound found in coal fired power plants In hot and humid environments strontium sulfide off gases into hydrogen sulfide carbon
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Chinese DrywallExposure to Fumes From Chinese Drywall
There are a lot of complaints concerning Chinese Drywall which seems to be linked to some serious health issues Individuals who have it in their homes say it causes red eyes and eye irritations It can also affect your sinus and respiratory organs People with Asthma have severe problems with their respiratory systems due to irritation from the fumes The following problems have been reported
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Toxic Chinese DrywallCome to Cape Coral
Toxic Chinese Drywall Toxic Chinese Drywall can ruin your health and your home It emits a gas with a sulfurous odor called hydrogen sulfide There is 100 times more of the gas in Chinese drywall than other drywalls The gas gets into cement blocks framing materials cabinets can tarnish metal and cause all kinds of health problems Builders used Chinese drywall when they built and
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CHINESEDRYWALLSCREENINGChinese Drywall Corrosive Drywall
Chinese Drywall Screening LLC is a professional engineering firm with one of the most experienced team of inspectors and consultants in the country covering Florida and the Southeast Since 2009 our team of inspectors have inspected more than 3 000 homes and commercial properties with over a 1 000 cases filed in legal proceedings dealing
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Chinese DrywallChinese Drywall Remediation Science and
Chinese Drywall provides information and solutions for Chinese Drywall remediation including both Chinese Drywall removal and replacement as well as Chinese Drywall In place remediation Chinese Drywall screening is a service provided in order to see if Chinese Drywall Remediation is necessary
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Chinese DrywallSquarespace
Reports say the drywall emits a sulfur compound that can corrode wiring air conditioning coils and other metals and could cause health problems especially with long term exposure More than 10 million square feet of the Chinese drywall was imported to South Florida during the building boom in when drywall was in short supply
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Chinese Drywall TestingA Detailed Palette
Chinese drywall is essentially a contaminated plasterboard This is a building material that is cheap and quick to use It is often used for internal walls where there does not need to be a foundation or to make sure there is a smooth surface This drywall is made of gypsum which is kiln dried between two pieces of
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Chinese Drywall Drywall usually comes from within the United States However due to a shortage during the real estate boom in Southwest Florida from it was imported from China There is evidence that the off gassing of Hydrogen Sulfide H 2 S Carbon Disulfide SCS Carbonyl Sulfide OCS and Strontium Sulfide SrS from the
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chinese drywallAsktheBuilder
The Chinese use poor quality high sulfur coal to make electricity This coal may contain other harmful chemical elements that once mixed with gypsum in drywall create toxic gas that s causing the issues in American homes Understand the fly ash is a waste by product from the power plants that normally would be thrown away or put into a landfill
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Chinese Drywall Test Chinese Drywall TestingA
An average home contains upwards of 150 boards of drywall In this environment comprehensive Chinese drywall testing would involve 45 000 in testing fees alone Add to that the cost of collecting samples and the insurance policy premium and drywall testing could cost 50 000 Obviously that is not price that the vast majority can afford
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Chinese Drywall Tax Breaks IRS Says Yes
Chinese Drywall Tax Breaks IRS Says Yes October 12th 2010 By LucyC As the unfortunate saga of Chinese drywall continues to unfold a new and welcome twist has emerged On September 30 2010
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Chinese Drywall Inspection for Commercial Property
Owners in 41 states report having contaminated Chinese drywall In Florida alone more than 550 million pounds of Chinese drywall were imported since 2006enough to build 30 000 buildings Complaints of odd smells in buildings and unusual failures of copper coils were reported for years but the cause was only recently discovered
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Learn About Chinese Drywall It s Dangers to You Your
In short the term Chinese Drywall which is also sometimes referred to as Contaminated Drywall or Tainted Drywall refers to drywall imported from China
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The drywall in question was imported from during the height of the housing boom and post Katrina construction from China The drywall in question has allegedly been found to emit sulfur based gases that are eating away at homes and spiking health concerns among affected residents
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Shipments of Chinese drywall made their way to Florida in 2001 and by the height of the region s real estate boom four years later the faulty material was
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Chinese Drywall is a type of drywall imported into the United States from Chinese suppliers between during the housing boom This type of drywall has very high levels of sulfur which can cause a variety of issues
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Chinese Drywall Tax Breaks IRS Says Yes October 12th 2010 By LucyC As the unfortunate saga of Chinese drywall continues to unfold a new and welcome twist has emerged On September 30 2010
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Chinese made drywall ruining homes owners sayCNN
Chinese made drywall ruining homes owners say CNN Officials are looking into claims that Chinese made drywall installed in some Florida homes
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Where is the Chinese Drywall Map Tampa Cape Coral
The Chinese drywall Complaint Center now believes that many more US Southeast homes particularly in Florida Southeast Texas Alabama Mississippi ia and Louisiana have toxic Chinese drywall than previous calculations The group says many homes in the US Southeast have toxic Chinese drywall INTERMIXED with US made drywall If these
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The Chinese drywall Complaint Center now believes that many more US Southeast homes particularly in Florida Southeast Texas Alabama Mississippi ia and Louisiana have toxic Chinese drywall than previous calculations The group says many homes in the US Southeast have toxic Chinese drywall INTERMIXED with US made drywall If these
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CHINESEDRYWALLSCREENINGChinese Drywall Corrosive Drywall
Chinese Drywall Screening LLC CDS will conduct a detailed visual inspection of the various elements that typically react to the presence of reactive drywall Some known affects are blackening copper tarnishing silver corroding and spotting chrome and brass and delaminating mirrors
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Defective Chinese DrywallConsumerWatch
Signs of the Presence of Chinese Drywall General signs and symptoms of a home that contains Chinese drywall include a rotten egg sulfur or melting plastic smell air conditioning units and furnace coils corroding corrosion of pipes personal jewelry and even guitar strings If lights flicker on and off for no apparent reason if a circuit
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About Chinese Drywall NCHH
Iron concentrations of 1 390 ppm and 1 630 ppm were detected in the Chinese drywall samples and in the range of 841 ppm to 3 210 ppm for the U S manufactured drywall samples Additional drywall samples will be tested to determine whether the iron is present as oxide sulfide or sulfate EPA s analysis showed the presence of two organic
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Chinese Drywall Settlements Testing Remediation
What is Chinese Drywall Chinese or Toxic drywall was installed between 2001 and 2009 when there was a drywall shortage in the U S This was caused by the housing bubble burst in 2008 as well as several hurricanes in the southeast Homes could have been remodeled with toxic drywall or built with it Toxic drywall
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Chinese drywall refers to an environmental health issue involving defective drywall manufactured in China and imported to the United States starting in 2001 Laboratory tests of samples for volatile chemicals have identified emissions of the sulfurous gases carbon disulfide carbonyl sulfide and hydrogen sulfide
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What Is Chinese Drywall Drywall is typically a gypsum based plaster that is kiln dried between two thick sheets of paper allowing it to form flat and smooth Gypsum is safe and easy to work with
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Chinese Drywall Test Chinese Drywall TestingA
The Consumer Products Safety Commission CPSC has concluded in their most recent report that these technologies are the most reliable Chinese drywall testing equipment Using both FTIR and XRF measurements of carbonate and strontium respectively was therefore determined to be the most sensitive and specific marker of imported drywall
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Drywall that was manufactured in China during this period has been found to contain harmful minerals and metals such as sulfur strontium and iron Typically in warm humid climates these contaminants will emit a noxious odorous gas that will smell like rotten eggs According to Lawrence Berkley National Laboratories Chinese drywall can
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2 days ago Chinese drywall refers to defective contaminated drywall that was imported from China between the years 2001 and 2008 Though the problem was
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