The Continuing Saga Of Chinese Drywall: The Trials Begin

It seems that the home owners who have had and are still havingproblems with contaminated

drywall are not just going to just quietly go away, and rightly so. Though there seems to have been a dearth of information lately regarding the outcome of all the trials and tribulations that home owners have been going through with the Chinese drywall contamination in their homes, there has recently been a ruling for seven families in Virginia who have been suffering the consequences of having sulphur contaminated drywall installed in their homes.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with this building issue, thousands of homes had sulphur-contaminated drywall installed in their homes, much of which had been imported from China; many of these families have been struggling to have something done about the problem since not long after they moved in.

Sometime after Chinese drywall started showing up en masse in American homes, home owners started noticing acrid smells, corroded pipes and wiring, and healthparticularly respiratoryproblems. According to real estate experts, one of the reasons that the contaminated dry wall installation was so extensiveespecially in certain areas of the nationis due to the recovery and rebuilding after natural disasters in those areas that damaged homes.

While many of the families that own these houses couldnt bear to live in them, there has beenup till nowvery little direction for these home owners, many of whom are still being forced to pay mortgages on homes that they cannot even live in.

This recent ruling for seven Virginian families offers many home owners a bright ray of hope for their futures; the judge awarded these home owners 2.6 million dollars in damages for their ruined homes. However, this ray of hope isnt without its own problems, the defendants in this case are Chinese companies which cannot be held to respond to this decision in the same way that an American company can.

Judge Eldon Fallon of the US District court stated that each of the homes owned by the plaintiffs will need to be gutted; the drywall, wiring, copper plumbing, appliances, and carpeting will all need replacing. This ruling comes as great relief to anyone who owns a home that is contaminated with the sulphurous drywall; many more cases are expected to go to trial over the next few months. Trials for medical claims are not expected until later this year.

by: Gary Ashton

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