On Thu, 26 May 2016 10:06:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


It helps when you know construction people. The first batch I got came
from a "Chinese drywall" house. They broke a piece trying to take the
kitchen apart and decided they could never match it up so they got rid
of all of it. The pieces with cut outs in them can be pretty fragile.
Since I didn't want the cut out anyway, it was fine with me. That was
where my other bar top came from.
......,


The "Chinese drywall". Oh man, a mixture of formaldehyde and chalk

What ever was the outcome of all that anyhow?

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It was a financial disaster for all concerned. It turned out that
there was a fair amount of sulphur in the mix also. Combined with
Florida humidity it was a recipe for making sulphuric acid which ate
everything it touched, especially copper wiring and human respiratory
systems. Savvy buyers eventually learned the trick of pulling a few
electrical cover plates and checking for green copper wires. That was
a sure sign of Chinese drywall. To remediate, the house had to be
gutted down to the studs, rewired and rebuilt - huge expense.