unfriendly builders and manufacturers!!!!

[Guest guest]

Thanks ,

Appreciate your comments. Understand well the idea of each one in the chain of

home and school etc construction process being accountable.

Its a far cry from the days when my Dad was a builder! Pride in work and product

have all but disappeared in favor of $$$$$$$. We can blame all we wish but it is

our responsibility to cause a change in what is done ...

The days when natural resins were good enough to bond plywood and pressed

wood panels is long gone. As you said it was profit that kills the product and the

end users!!! "Cheaper! Stronger! But not Better!!!"

The industry needs to clean up its production and make safe housing materials only!

Recently the cost of "plywoods" have been raised to its highest level. Builders are still

building!!! Still using plywoods and chip/particle board materials.

More bonding materials are being used than ever before....are they safe????

Glues/sealers/floor adhesive materials/.....nothing that they use is as safe as years ago.

Then they put them all into one place ..Whamm!!!!

It gets scary!

Bryce

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:43:08 -0500 " Stensrud" <stenjess@...> writes:

Welcome.

In my thoughts about all of this, it seems to me that the earth isn't the unfriendly one, it's the people who are quick to make progress and a profit without first seeing if what they are doing will injure others and themselves!

Sure, it's great to provide housing for more and more people, but to treat wood so that it is toxic to people as well as insects, may limit one kind of damage to the house, but seems to cause years and years of illness and other damage to people.

We as a society must find a way to use things like wood in such a way that we don't rely on chemical shortcuts so that inferior grades of wood can be used. I am sure this is an insanely complicated thing, but if the housing people are in and the schools that children are in are making people sick in the short and long term, then relaxed standards for building (and "better living thru chemistry") be damned!