The next Chinese menace: drywall

[Squisher]

Hope this isn't a repost, but considering I can find articles going back a few days I'm worried about oldsmoboat's second law. Yes, I did search.

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"This type of drywall was produced with materials that emit toxic hydrogen sulphide gas and other sulphide gases," says a copy of one home inspection report obtained Canwest News Service on an affected Florida home where Chinese drywall was installed. "These sulphide gases are also alleged to cause serious health conditions and illnesses, such as shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, eye irritations and respiratory difficulties."

 

[SagaLore]

By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Drywall is supposed to be made of gypsum. I don't understand how even they can F that up. 😕

 

[DarrelSPowers]

OH NOES

now I'm scared to buy one of them foreclosed houses...

 

[Engineer]

But hey, it was cheap and made by cheaper (i.e. more efficient to the resident economists out there) labor. We don't need manufacturing here, especially with the awful "regulation" word in place. Bah.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Not going to happen.

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: SagaLore
By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Not going to happen.

Which is a pity.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: MotF Bane

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: SagaLore
By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Not going to happen.

Which is a pity.

Indeed. If anything, the CEO's will send more and more out as they seek higher profits, without realizing that a country not making anything is nothing but a bunch of people selling to each other with real capital going out of the country.

Step #6 in the fall of every empire in the history of the world....and we're at that step (6 of 7).

 

[dud]

Another reason to buy Chinese made products.

 

[JulesMaximus]

My house was built in 1994. Guess I'm safe.

 

[Hacp]

If you bought the el-cheapo drywall, it was your own choice. If your house gets torn down, well that is a consequence of your own choice. Next time, buy the more expensive deluxe dry-wall instead of going to the bargain basement.

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: MotF Bane

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: SagaLore
By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Not going to happen.

Which is a pity.

Indeed. If anything, the CEO's will send more and more out as they seek higher profits, without realizing that a country not making anything is nothing but a bunch of people selling to each other with real capital going out of the country.

Step #6 in the fall of every empire in the history of the world....and we're at that step (6 of 7).

What's step 7?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Hacp
If you bought the el-cheapo drywall, it was your own choice. If your house gets torn down, well that is a consequence of your own choice. Next time, buy the more expensive deluxe dry-wall instead of going to the bargain basement.

Yeah? And what about people that bought remodeled homes in that time period? Is it their own fault for not researching the source of every sheet of drywall?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Unheard

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: MotF Bane

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: SagaLore
By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Not going to happen.

Which is a pity.

Indeed. If anything, the CEO's will send more and more out as they seek higher profits, without realizing that a country not making anything is nothing but a bunch of people selling to each other with real capital going out of the country.

Step #6 in the fall of every empire in the history of the world....and we're at that step (6 of 7).

What's step 7?

Well, we got our bread, now we just need some damned circuses.

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: Unheard

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: MotF Bane

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: SagaLore
By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Not going to happen.

Which is a pity.

Indeed. If anything, the CEO's will send more and more out as they seek higher profits, without realizing that a country not making anything is nothing but a bunch of people selling to each other with real capital going out of the country.

Step #6 in the fall of every empire in the history of the world....and we're at that step (6 of 7).

What's step 7?

Well, we got our bread, now we just need some damned circuses.

American Idol
/thread.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
By the end of this recession, I foresee a lot of manufacturing being pulled from China and put back into the US. :shocked:

Drywall is supposed to be made of gypsum. I don't understand how even they can F that up. 😕

Its China. Its where the US goes to get around all those pesky laws that were passed by the US during the industrial revolution because people were dying. Those laws never did nothing for nobody and you know it!

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Hacp
If you bought the el-cheapo drywall, it was your own choice. If your house gets torn down, well that is a consequence of your own choice. Next time, buy the more expensive deluxe dry-wall instead of going to the bargain basement.

Stop trolling

 

[Vette73]

Not sure how much they really saved as you can get US made 4X8 1/2" drywall for around $6 a sheet. Of course during the home run up where prices were jacked up you never know.
There is a drywall plant in my home city of Wilmington NC so I know most I have used came from there.


And if you don;t like chinese drywall, be careful buying chinese plywood. What I have seen at HD/Lowes from china has been bad. Builder grade and woodworking grade.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I think the rash of Chinese products that are harmful to people is China's way of secretly waging war on the US and eventually they will conquer us because we're all dead from toxic poisoning.

 

[0roo0roo]

all part of the chinese poison train
http://consumerist.com/tag/chinese-poison-train/

 

[meltdown75]

w00t, 2003

ayooooooooo

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I think the rash of Chinese products that are harmful to people is China's way of secretly waging war on the US and eventually they will conquer us because we're all dead from toxic poisoning.

i concur!

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I think the rash of Chinese products that are harmful to people is China's way of secretly waging war on the US and eventually they will conquer us because we're all dead from toxic poisoning.

I thought the plan was to slowly lower our IQs by tainting all our food with lead to the point we'd forget how to arm our nuclear missiles.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I think the rash of Chinese products that are harmful to people is China's way of secretly waging war on the US and eventually they will conquer us because we're all dead from toxic poisoning.

I thought the plan was to slowly lower our IQs by tainting all our food with lead to the point we'd forget how to arm our nuclear missiles.

Well then they succeeded.

 

[dakels]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
all part of the chinese poison train
http://consumerist.com/tag/chinese-poison-train/

That is hilarious. "Sry we killd ur bby. (T_T)" -Chinese dairy


On a more serious note. China needs to take some drastic steps to improve their manufacturing image. With their GDP heavily based on manufacturing, the global recession is bad enough without their product image further getting dragged through the mud. Cardboard filled dumplings, lead and glass filled toys, poison baby formula, now toxic home building supplies all within like 1 year? Whats it gonna take to start implementing radical changes?

 

[lxskllr]

I can't believe China runs it's country off of the crap it makes. Can you imagine being a mechanic at on of their factories? They probably have a team of 200 that constantly fixes equipment break downs, and the tool truck stops by twice per day to replace broken tools.