On Oct 17, 2:04*am, RicodJour wrote:
On Oct 17, 1:45*am, cavelamb wrote:





RicodJour wrote:
On Oct 17, 12:50 am, Ignoramus15879 ignoramus15...@NOSPAM.
15879.invalid wrote:
It would appear that in this instance, home buyers

1) Had no clue that bad drywall could exist

Most people didn't.

2) Had no means to check what the builders installed

Well, yeah, it's kind of tough to test for something you don't know is
a problem.

3) Were deceived by home builders, who likely knew everything but
chose not to inform buyers.

You think builders knowingly installed material they knew to be
faulty? *Huh?

If that's all they can get? *Sure.

You honestly believe an established - notice I didn't say honest -
builder would install something he _knew_ would come back to bite him
in the but and result in lawsuits? *I think that is just as likely to
happen as your lawyer taking your money and doing nothing, or any
other trade/profession screwing someone over when they knew they were
going to get caught. *Such things are in the 1 to 2 percent range at
most.

Every builder's contract has a clause about conditions outside of
their control and limiting their responsibility. The Ignorant one said
the builders "knew everything" about the problem, and still installed
it. *There are essentially no cases, no mention, of defective drywall
before the current Chinese created problem. *How would these builders
know that there would be a problem? *No one had ever encountered it
before.

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Yeah, it's amazing how people jump to conclusions. I would think it
likely that the builders or yard carrying the product didn't know
anything about safety issues any more than the home buyer. Was every
toy store that sold the Chinese toys aware that they contained lead?