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    chinese drywall

    No voodoo science with preconceived results? I mentioned we have a couple of other methods to test between domestic and other brands. All homes encountered contained Chinese drywall. The AC coils and wiring showed advanced corrosion indicative of the bad drywall. The resulting removal of the...
  2. bestmd

    chinese drywall

    Regardless, during part of the initial testing, sulfur content as well as a couple other methods have been extremely reliable for us to determine prior to demo stage whether a house contains Chinese drywall or not. So yes, there are other means of testing than relying on just a sulfur test. I...
  3. bestmd

    chinese drywall

    bimr, all good comments from other sites, but being a "grunt" in the field there is no defined science to any of it. As pointed out by Ron earlier in this thread, all US based drywall does contain a very small amount of sulfur in the gypsum. The percentage between the US brands and the Chinese...
  4. bestmd

    chinese drywall

    Sam, send me a contact number or company name. I'll be in Fort Myers on Monday then back up to Tampa for a few days. Mike
  5. bestmd

    chinese drywall

    Well, there are to approaches. The builders and the lawyers. The builders, as I said previously, mainly the large volume builders are trying to be a little pro-active about it and take care of it themselves. If the homeowner can not find the builder or does not want to work with the builder...
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    chinese drywall

    Good question, tricky answer. And I'm "handcuffed" by most of it. Up front, some of the home builders are footing the bills. That is those who are still around or haven't re-organized into another name to protect themselves. But I only hear rumors of that. Some homeowners (very few I...
  7. bestmd

    chinese drywall

    When I said I was monitoring the remediation, I should have been a little more to the point. I work for one of the companies gathering samples and evidence for litigation. As well as standing behind demo crews documenting the drywall removal. Homes are torn down to the studs. Only thing...
  8. bestmd

    chinese drywall

    So Sam, Did you get the answers you were looking for? I've been monitoring the remediation throughout S. W. Florida for nearly 6 months now. Mike
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