Chinese Drywall - Latest News Update
There is a threat lurking amidst homes all over the U.S. and maybe elsewhere. This threat has a name that perhaps you’ve already heard on the news or radio: it’s called Chinese drywall and it’s coming to a neighborhood near you. Listen up to what I’m about to tell you because it could affect the very home you’re sitting in right now.
Over the past several years, construction workers and builders have at times used a cheap form of drywall that was imported from China. Well, so what’s the problem with that you may ask; I mean, cheap is good as long as it holds up.
The problem with this Chinese drywall is that it is eroding the houses we live in here in America. This stuff gives off a corrosive gas which damages all the copper and metal surfaces that it possible comes into contact with. This is a big problem. Those metals need to be close to pristine in order for them to do their duties which they were intended to do.
There is still another problem, though, and this is that the drywall also gives off a very bad smell. You might laugh now, but if that odor was emanating from throughout your entire house, from its very walls, I don’t think you’d find that to be too funny. You’d literally “be living in the stink”. You might as well set up shop in a dump.
Who wants to live in a smelly mess of a house? When this terror comes to haunt you and your family, you’re going to wish you or your contractor had spent a little more money to buy higher quality drywall. I know that I personally would not want to invite guests over to my stinky house of crumbling pipes.
All of the preceding aside, the most devastating effect of this bad Chinese drywall is that it is making people sick. In some cases, they may or not be getting seriously ill. It’s still too early to tell the full scope of this onslaught of sulfuric attacks.
The symptoms that people have already reported from their in-home problems include: fatigue, sleepiness, rashes, trouble breathing, sore throat, headaches, and many, many other symptoms. So if your house smells like eggs, and that smell is coming from behind your walls, and you’re experiencing strange symptoms, you should tell your doctor and/or go to the Government website where it deals with this issue.
I hope that I have helped you and your family be a little more prepared. So far, it seems like this is not an overarching problem, but is in some ways confined to only some areas and houses. Only time will tell the outcome of this Chinese-caused problem. I don’t want to frighten you. I only want to educate and prepare.
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