Chinese Drywall by the Numbers

June 5th, 2009. By admin

137,000,000,000 square feet: total US drywall use, 2004-2007 (WSJ online, 4/17/09)

550,000,000 pounds of drywall imported to US since 2006—enough to build 60,000 homes(heraldtribune.com, 2/18/09)

309,000,000 square feet: amount of drywall imported from China, 2004-2007—enough to build 35,000 homes (WSJ online, 4/17/009)

100,000 minimum number of homes estimated to be affected by Chinese drywall (msn.com, 6/5/09)

75,000 estimate of how many potential Chinese drywall cases could develop nationwide by Coral Gables lawyer Ervin Gonzalez (news-press.com, 5/11/09)