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Does anyone know of any issues with condos in Charlotte using Chinese Drywall.. They are saying the homes affected are betwen 2001 and 2008, specifially 2004-2006. I know Charlotte did alot of building around there..
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Does anyone know of any issues with condos in Charlotte using Chinese Drywall.. They are saying the homes affected are betwen 2001 and 2008, specifially 2004-2006. I know Charlotte did alot of building around there..
If you do not want to post answer here, feel free to PM me..
Thanks
Haven't heard a thing about any problems here (not that that proves it's not here, just that no one is screaming at the top of their lungs in the media about it here - which you would expect to have happening if it had been found here).
It's been pretty well determined that most of that Chinese garbage went to the Gulf Coast, mostly to Florida, with some in Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina I believe.
^^^^True. I think what sparked this tread was an in-depth article sometime this week in the NY Times or WSJ. I was going to post it and then forgot about it during the day. Report said the "fix" would cost about $100,000 per household (as I recall). Not too many people around that have 100G to spend these days, I suppose??
From what I remember, most of that drywall got installed further south, however at least one shipment from China did make it's way into NC. It was allegedly unloaded at the port in Wilmington. I don't know about Charleston's port where presumably most of Charlotte's stuff would come from.
If your pre-1982 pennies are turning black, you probably have a problem.
I know I should look up the answer to this, but doesn't seem expensive to import Chinese drywall when this is one of the things that the US seems to produce a heck of a lot of?
I know I should look up the answer to this, but doesn't seem expensive to import Chinese drywall when this is one of the things that the US seems to produce a heck of a lot of?
The reason they did started with Katrina and then to the irresponsible real estate construction market/industry. There was so much construction going on the domestic suppliers simply could not produce enough of it here to keep up with demand, so they started importing it from China.
Of course business regulation has been tossed out over the last decade or so so stuff isn't inspected now. It appears the Chinese manufacturers saw this as a way to get rid of some toxic waste and thus they made it into drywall.
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