Fla. Builders Lament Chinese-made Drywall

[MrMADMOFO]

People stop buying crap from china and china mart aka wal mart ! Everyone needs to start reading labels before buying stuff ! USA ONLY PRODUCTS at least if you have a problem with USA products you could do something about it !

[FyzikalKemizt]

LMAO! American drywalls are no better, you people should go live in caves, that's how you get rid of all things chinese.

[agricola]

@FyzikalKemizt uuhh, how much building expirience do YOU have? chinese building materials are vastly inferior. contractors buy that shit so they can cut corners.

[coondogtheman1234]

we should just basically say screw you china and make our own drywall in the US. sure it may be more expensive but the extra money helps the economy by staying in the US vs leaving the country to china.

[one2bop]

A Cry for Help --- American Drywall

watch?v=BWLbxR8O-sQ

US drywall also dangerous

watch?v=rW1xTTGJ7v8

[bigbabyboy2000]

i bet 80% of the items in your home were make in china......and your home was built with chinese drywall. ask your builder: like he will give you an honest answer.

[agricola]

@bigbabyboy2000 my home was built in 1940 so nope.

[bigbabyboy2000]

you know if they will mass produce baby milk to harm infants they will take any mean to harm americans

[ohmybentley]

Thats why u buy American made materials.

[bigbabyboy2000]

yeah, you assholes ship all the jobs over seas: don't cry now. you get what u pay for.......they got most of their material from a waist landfill full of crapp.

[sokie007]

Check our music video "Nothing Could Be Finer (than to buy our goods from China)" posted last year and still relevant today about dangerous products from China

[bahamasroy]

How about stop building completely with synthetic and plastic materials? As long as we keep building like this, shit like this is going to happen, whether made in USA, China, India. There are numerous green and natural building options: strawbale, bamboo, earthbags, cob.

[ethicomm]

I'm convinced that the Red Chinese are trying to poison and bring harm to people around the world. In particular they want to bring harm to Americans (I'm not American but truly believe this) This is a typical example that Beijing will likely show no backbone in dealing with. They're complicit in this for sure. I'd avoid buying Chinese produce because you never know about the water supply. Whether canned or fresh it's pretty dodgy.

[kingmafi6699]

The Chinese manufacturing industry is vast and is impossible to regulate.

Despite all the propaganda about China it is not a very regulated nation and you can even drive around in police cars if you know the right people.

[MrTuffluv]

another oops of our dependancy on cheap labor outsourcing

[agricola]

@MrTuffluv not my dependency, its corperate america's dependency.

[nick76dune]

another chinese made piece of shit, poisoned milk poisoned drywall

crappy cars (coffins on the wheels)

[azbadgahad]

China doesn't make anything well, except chicken and rice. Well, if the chicken isn't from China- then it's probably ok.

[mercedesconn]

The reason builders used Chinese drywall is because we ran out of our own due to housing boom at the time, and Katrina. The builder didn't know it was toxic, it's China's fault.

[StudioMixxx]

Shouldn't drywall being installed in AMERICA .... Be made in AMERICA...? ---- And politicians can't figure out why America is unemployed ...??? ---- And we watch News programs about Chinese drywall on Tv's Not made in AMERICA ... Because AMERICA doesn't manufacture Tv's anymore ??? --While I sit here itching because the Tee shirt im wearing was made in Honduras and feels like its partly made from donkey hair ?? that i bought from wallmart becuase im laid off cuzz my JOB moved to MEXICO ??????

[bluemonolith88]

most manufacturing sectors are located in third world nations like china or mexico because of lower labor cost. it's called economic dynamism. due to less stringent regulations in overseas, especially in politically less than stable and corrupt nations like china, these are the problems that we just have to live with since they are outweighed by benefits of cheap products.

[lrd9999]

That's true for a lot of labor intensive products, but it's exaggerated by the fact that the US government and (up until recently) many of its citizens are addicted to borrowed money. So they sell us this stuff and use the money to buy our bonds. Buying the bonds keeps the Chinese currency low and gives their goods an artificial advantage. When they finally get tired of taking our IOUs with no reason to think they'll every be paid back, well actually have to learn to make our own stuff again.

[agricola]

@bluemonolith88 there are no benefits of cheap products.

[bluemonolith88]

@agricola tell that to, oh, about at least tens of millions of americans who shop at walmart to gobble up those cheap products from china.

[lou737]

More cheap junk from china. Went will we ever learn?

[mensacyclist]

"Went will we ever learn? "

...Shortly after we learn to spell when.

[bluemonolith88]

What a pedantic and small-minded ass you are to criticize somebody's typo on a fucking internet message board! Btw, do you also criticize babies for making grammatical errors when they first start to speak? It is not as if the person was writing a legal brief. You must be a very small, petty, and insecure sorry excuse of a person.

[mensacyclist]

So you equate yourself with a baby first learning to speak? I'd say that's a fair observation.

[bluemonolith88]

That does not even make sense. lol I was wrong. You are not a pedantic ass. You are just a petty and dumb internet troll. Exactly how dumb are you if you cannot even understand a simple analogy?

[ethicomm]

I wonder if the Chinese government will address this issue in a constructive manner? Or will they point fingers at the USA and twist things to makes themselves the victim?

[bluemonolith88]

chinese couldn't care less for things like this. they have about a billion other much bigger problems to worry about. btw, toxic dry walls are nothing. you're talking about people who are putting leads - literally - to seafood products that they export to neighboring nations like korea or japan to get better pricing by making them heavier. toxic walls, i'm sure, don't even register as problems in chinese bureaucracy.

[ripit0309]

More chink crap. Learned yer lesson yet Amerikaka?

[thorntonater]

learn english grammer dipshit

[OrmEmber]

grammar,  English Professor...

[wseegers2]

Why buy foreign drywall? It is made in the U.S. in a very sustainable manner. If you want to learn more about drywall and how it can be recycled visit my YouTube channel. You will be amazed and learn things you didn't know about drywall.

[lrd9999]

I assume wouldn't normally be cost effective to import drywall, even if you could get it for free in China; the stuff is probably worth less than the shipping cost. But during the boom, US capacity ran short of demand, so the price went high enough to justify it, so they thought.

[parisrai]

The country that brought us lead in kids toys is sending us more crappy product. I guess it is hard to find 8 year olds who do quality work for $2 per month.

[lovebugzy26]

Goshhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

China brand known as LOW quality in short PIRATED supplies...

[patsagainstrats]

illegal spic construction workers hate chink drywall.

[kaffir2]

that complaint sounds pretty bogus.

what do you do after putting up sheetrock?

spread it with mud, let it dry, repeat.

then paint it, let it dry, repeat.

so let it dry if that's all there really is to it.

and i don't trust women who remove their eyebrows and paint them back on in the wrong place.

[xlioilx]

I bet the drywall is made of the bones of cats that they cook in their food

Chinese motto: We taught the Jews!

[jhstein1]

chinese shit-- check walstreetpro on YouTube.  Terrific video

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

This is shocking, especially when you consider drywall is China's 52,678th largest export.

[maynecuffs]

hahahaa brilliant.

[LU29UN99]

You don't criticize China's products. Think about. There are alot of american companies are saving money & paying cheap labor to sell foreign products. Besides, there is no evidence that causes cancer? b****s***they are just playing prejudice.

[adisharr]

I'll just assume that you're retarded or have only been on this planet a short time. China makes very few things well. Even when they steal ideas they still execute them half-assed. Many American companies only think they are saving money. They'll regret their decisions when they come back and bite them. This is an excellent example.

[inkey2]

her eis the PROBLEM we face in the usa. We all want jobs and manufacturing to stay in the USA.....but....if Americans are making all these things we have to be prepared to pay MUCH MORE for these items due to the higher wage requirements of the USA worker. I personally would rather pay more and buy American, but there are so many families that are just getting by and need these cheap goods.

[standingstrange]

Very good to know this.

[mcgaugh57]

I used some Chinese made cabinet grade plywood. It was garbage not square, bad edges and was very heavy with moisture also. Could not control warping.

[pro272727]

In California China causes cancer.

[WhoRonPaul]

..could cause health problems..? priceless

[CelticDragon0]

What the HELL is your problem?!

[P3rf3ctStorm]

Very clever, those Chinese. They know how to get us...

[trav1971]

chinese junk

[WKaliber1]

florida sucks

[FrankieD2000]

.....made in China label sucks more

[WKaliber1]

China > USA