Comments on: Knauf Drywall Fiasco “Biggest Home Defect Case in US History”

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:44:16 +0000

I’m with Tim. As a real estate appraiser and a contractor I am thoroghly familiar with the issue, yet I have it in my own house. When my property was built no builder or homeowner had any reason to believe that there was anything wrong with this product. It was not purchased at a discount and Knauf has been around for years making a wide array of construction products. Homeowners have no blame in this whatsoever. The writer of this article is ignorant of the facts.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:00:34 +0000

I read this article and disagree strongly. I have experience with the CDW incident and I can tell you for a fact “Home-hungry Americans flock into reasonably-priced homes without a second thought regarding the safety and integrity of the structures.” is quite a short-sighted view of what is happening. If anyone thinks blaming the home buyer for this problem is a legitimate part of placing blame, then you’re just as short-sighted as the author of this unintelligent article.

By: MIKE Bergen

MIKE Bergen — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:42:29 +0000

The raw material was the recycled “waste” from coal fired power plants. This is the kind of thing that our government encourages and then when there are unintended consequences that same gov’t goes after those terrible, large corporations who were doing what the gov’t encouraged them to do.
Who says “no good deed goes unpunished”
Isn’t it interesting when those ex Goldman Sacks people killed Lehmann Bros that the financial markets froze? A couple of months later, when they modified the Mark to Market rules to performance it would have saved Lehmann and the freeze may not have been as severe. The gov’t that says they will fix it are very much responible for it being broken. Plenty of blame to go around.
PS I wonder how much of theis drywall problem would go away irf the house designs wouldn’t allow moisture to get into the stud space to begin with.
Only time will tell and when the real reason comes out, noone will care
WHATA WORLD, WHATA COUNTRY,

By: dejan jovanovic

dejan jovanovic — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:39:16 +0000

I work with Knauf component 10 years in Serbia.I just can imagine what kind of components we can buy in our stores.The bigger problem in my country and all Eastern Europe is in the fact that we can’t to apeal because we don’t have who to apeal.

By: Google Money SYstem

Google Money SYstem — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:52:30 +0000

It’s scary really that any company could allow such a thing to happen with such a common building component. I can’t help but wonder if anything else has been effected with drywall (Other chemicals are made with drywall components.)