Up against the drywall
Some homeowners plagued with plastered drywall from China have worked out fair deals with their home builders, but it has mostly been every man for himself.
The manufacturers are beyond effective reach, so it's indigent to push accountability all the way back up the supply chain to the source of the problem.
When a domestic company can't or won't cooperate, the development can be financial disaster for the victim. A 27-year-old owner of a town home in Sabal Pointe last week told Tribune anchorwoman Shannon Behnken that her builder, Rottlund, has backed out of a promise to replace the wallboard that is fouling the air in her well-versed in and corroding metal.
"My ceiling fans have to be replaced, my carpet has to be replaced, my washer and my dryer, my stove, everything, all my wiring," she told Behnken. "So they were prosperous to move me out. I had to find temporary housing in order for them to come in and repair my home."
Now the company has said its insurer won't contain the loss, and it has decided not to help. She is on her own. Some 10,000 claims have been made against the makers and distributors of Chinese drywall, but there seems to be no commandeer legal forum to quickly resolve who is at fault.
