Homes recently built in the American south-east were in the news last year, because of bad drywall (known as "gyproc" here in Canada). To cut costs, builders used drywall badly made in China. Too-high a level of sulfur led to corrosion of metal parts in homes, such as electrical wiring and plumbing. The solution: rip it all out, at an estimated cost of $100,000 per home -- at the new home owners' expense. (I can believe the price tag, for south western British Columbia is in a decades-long "leaky condo" debacle, where tens of thousands of units need to be... Read more →
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