A "final study" on the lingering problem drywall (aka Chinese Drywall) problem has just been released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.The study provides guidance to homeowners who have problem...
The National Association for Home Builders (NAHB) recently made available a new resource for builders, remodelers and homeowners on detection and remediation of problem drywall. As many know, problem drywall refers to imported Chinese drywall that posed a corrosion...
A CPSC-requested CDC investigation into 11 deaths of people exposed to "problem drywall" found no evidence linking the two. For those who haven't been keeping up, problem drywall - aka "Chinese Drywall" and "contaminated drywall" - has been in the spotlight of the...
I don't find myself doing a lot of drywall work, but I can appreciate those who do. It's laborious at best, and any corner cutting can show up later. That said, it's small wonder there are new innovations meant to improve the life of a drywaller. The latest to come...
Does your home have "problem drywall" (also called Chinese Drywall)? If it does and you are a borrower with a Freddie Mac-owned mortgage backed by a single family home, you may be eligible for a forbearance. Servicers are instructed to give borrowers relief in the...
Imagine if the walls of your home could act as a filter, cleaning the very air you breathe of pollutants and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). That's what CertainTeed Gypsum's new AirRenew gypsum board can do, by capturing the unhealthy formaldehyde and other...
Homeowners who have -- or suspect they have -- a brand of Chinese Drywall called Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin must have the drywall identified and a complaint filed by a federal court-imposed deadline of December 2nd, according to the Chinese Drywall Complaint Center....
Does your home contain contaminated Chinese Drywall? This testing advice from the New York Times can help a homeowner determine if he or she is one of the thousands in over 30 states with the poisonous plasterboard. Some ways to tell if you have Chinese Drywall in...
It might be too late to spare China's embarrassment over the contaminated drywall mess, but apparently it isn't too late to right their wrong. That's what Sabre Technical Services is doing, with their chlorine dioxide decontamination process which -- once injected...
The case of the Chinese drywall keeps getting bigger and bigger. While the Sun Sentinel estimated it cost Miami home builder, Lennar Corp., $99,500 per house to fix the tainted drywall, a Florida politician estimated that 100,000 Florida homes may be facing similar...
