One Lehigh Acres woman and her husband who live in a rented home with defective drywall says the news from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that homes built with Chinese drywall are not safe and need to be gutted is good news.

“After all, someone is taking responsibility,” Jennifer Bermudez said.

But like others who live in homes with defective drywall, both rented and home owned, they and their landlord want to know who is going to pay for tearing down the house and rebuilding it.

Bermudez lives in a house that inspectors have deemed defective, but they can’t say it is Chinese drywall. But yet, all copper wires in her house and silverware and other metals have turned black from the gases being emitted from the drywall. Even the family dog has suffered a rash that the vet believes may be coming from fumes from the drywall.

Bermudez says she think the air inside may be bad for her family’s health, too.

Her landlord has offered to put them up in another house, but he is waiting for word from his attorney also asking who is going to pay for the demolition and rebuilding.

Another person who lives in a defective drywall home is Brenda Brincku and she wants to know, too, who is going to pay for tearing down the house and replacing it.

Brincku, whose home was built using tainted American-made drywall, said it will cost more than $223,000 to completely remediate her home. Thus far federal agencies, lenders and government officials have not been able to agree on a source to help cover the costs to homeowners.

“Everybody is pointing the finger somewhere else,” Brincku said. “No one is ready to take responsibility for this.”

Thousands of homeowners between Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi have reported problems with the Chinese-made drywall, requiring billions of dollars to fix their houses. The CPSC’s announcement is a move in the right direction, Brincku said, but doesn’t go far enough.

Like Brincku, Cape Coral homeowner Richard Kampf said the CPSC’s decision to issue guidance when it comes to the tainted drywall is positive but incomplete. He said it’s an “interim” protocol, one that will do for now. The CPSC’s recommendation include removing all the drywall, all fire alarm devices, electrical components and wiring, gas piping and fire suppression sprinklers. Kampf said the protocol also needs to include electrical wiring, appliances and air conditioning units.

“It’s pretty good news for those of us who have drywall … but it’s only an interim. Its not good enough for what needs to be done,” Kampf said. A decision in a class action lawsuit associated with Chinese drywall is due in a Louisiana courtroom as early as this week. Kampf said a decision in that case might create protocol needed to address everything that needs to be removed in a home built with the drywall.

The CPSC is also expected to release a recommendations on the health effects associated with Chinese drywall. While people like the Bermudez family and the Kampfs await these decisions and announcements, for now they have what they feel could be the first salvo in the war on the tainted drywall.

“It gives congress the information it needs to find the fund to fix this,” Kampf said. To view the CPSC’s press release on Chinese drywall visit: http://www.cpsc.gov/info/drywall/hud10068.html.