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Deduct Costs Of Stinky Chinese Drywall From Your Taxes
You can get some money if your home was ruined by defective Chinese drywall that emitted nasty-ass sulfuric fumes. The IRS yesterday said that homeowners could treat the damages to both their homes and appliances as a casualty loss and deduct it from their taxes. More »

Half-A-Dozen Companies Knew About Tainted Drywall, But Stayed Mum And Kept Selling It
Newly released court documents indicate that over a half-dozen companies knew about the rotten egg smells exuding from Chinese drywall since 2006, but they stayed quiet and kept selling the junk. More »

I Like Smelling Farts, Chinese Drywall Distributor Tells Court
Do you like farts? Documents and depositions unearthed by ProPublica and the Sarasota Harold-Tribune show exchanges between homebuilder WCI Communities and drywall distributor Banner that reveal the sulfur-emitting drywall problem was known as far back as 2006, and yet customers and authorities were not notified. In one deposition, a Banner executive refuses to admit that sulfur-stinking drywall might bother others, seeing as he himself, on certain occasions, enjoys the sweet aroma of another man's butt gas: More »

Gov Says All Stinky Chinese Drywall Should Be Gutted
The Consumer Products Safety Commission today released their long-awaited guidelines about the stinky Chinese drywall that has been linked to corrosion and is described in the report as "sulfur-emitting." The bottom line? Get out the tools. That stuff's gotta go. Here's the really bad news: CPSC and HUD also recommend that you replace "electrical components and wiring, gas service piping, fire suppression sprinkler systems, smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms." More »

CPSC Links Chinese Drywall To Home Corrosion

—>The CPSC announced findings linking Chinese drywall to reports of home corrosion, and a possible link between the sulfuric gas emitting from them and health problems.   More »

Insurers Drop Homeowners With Stinky Chinese Drywall

—>If you own a house made with poisonous Chinese drywall, you may soon have one fewer thing to worry about: paying your homeowner's insurance premiums.  More »

EPA Releases Report On Stinky Chinese Drywall

—>Homeowners in Florida have been complaining that Chinese-made drywall has been stinking up their homes and corroding their wiring — and now that EPA has released a report that finds that indeed, there is something rotten smelling in the drywall. Sulfur.  More »