Had roofers redo the roof awhile ago. I checked the lawn for errent nails thinking I'd find none or two. It went from mildy to infuriating.
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Having been a roofer before, that's a lot but not wildly large, especially if they were redoing an asphalt roof. We were always much better than this, but we did standing seam. Most of it is probably from removing the old shingles. If you're roof is like a 9/12 or steeper things just fly off that roof.
Again sloppy work, but I've seen so much worse from crews that don't care.
I feel like adding a metal detector as part of truck equipment would go a long way.
We had a big magnet on wheels at the shop I used to work at. Could have easily modified it to work in a yard (if they don't already make such a thing).
They do and my roofing contractor did this very thing during cleanup this year. Had three of them.
There were still some small pieces of trash here and there, but nothing egregious or metallic.
Didn't really mind the mess afterwards, I get it, but the sweep for rusty staples and nails were just terrible. There was a string of collated nails right next to the eaves.
Last time we had the roof done, they were pretty good with the magnet over the whole yard.
Why cant someone run a magnet over the yard or at least the debris zone as part of cleanup? They make magnets on a stick for this exact purpose.
If you can get away without and start on another job sooner. That's my guess anyway. I only did high end roofing and there's no way we would finish a roof in less than a week. But some businesses are based on doing lots of jobs fast instead of big expensive jobs. So I guess they feel they aren't getting paid to care about that.