It is high time for the people living across the globe to well educate themselves about an alleged health and safety issue involving defective drywall manufacture that emits toxic gases. These volatile chemicals after having undergone tests in the laboratory have been identified as carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide and hydrogen sulfide. The impact of drywall problem on human health includes respiratory tract infections, sinus problems and nosebleeds.
In the homes with defective drywalls, the emitted gas combines with airborne humidity and creates a corrosive environment inside the home. The Chinese drywall besides causing adverse health effect, damage most of the metal components at home. The pipes, wirings and air-conditioner coils with copper surfaces corrode in the presence of the emitted toxic gases from the dry walls; they turn black and powdery thus indicating a chemical process of a reaction with hydrogen sulfide.Therefore, if not given proper early attention to the Chinese drywall problems it can indeed make it difficult to sell, insure or refinance a home.
Many construction industries are blaming the Chinese sheet rock used in the drywall for the multitude of problems linked with defective Chinese drywall. To make more profits when many construction industries outsource the Chinese drywall without having a proper test of the material in maximum cases the products received are toxic. Therefore it is highly recommended to the construction companies to go for the testing of the Chinese drywall before using it, even if shows no signs of toxicity externally.
A simple underwritten drywall test can help the individual to attain a peace of mind while selling the home or trying to get insurance for the home. The toxic drywall testing are no longer expensive in the present market, FTIR and XRF testing methods have been proved to be the most reliable and cost-effective method of Chinese drywall testing.
Knauf has been linked with Chinese drywall problem from quite a long time. Besides Knauf there are other companies too linked with the drywall problems. Knauf a company based in Germany, manufactures drywall in China. As the government has already confirmed the Knauf drywall as defective so the string of liability with Knauf is a bit complicated at present. Testing with guaranteed and insurable results can remove the doubts of it being defective.
A similar issue has also been linked with the Florida Chinese drywall. As a review states that the people of Florida pay the highest premium in the world, at present the substantial construction defect due to the use of Chinese drywall is threatening to hike the premiums further. Therefore to avoid such situations a quality test of the construction products can ease the homeowner about the safety of their home and its environment.
More information about the Chinese drywall problem is available online with the aim to bring maximum awareness on health and environment issues that are expanding rapidly due to this toxic drywall in this current scenario.
Author Resource:
Joseph Weissglass is author of this article on Florida Chinese Drywall .
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