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Warning: I saw a guy on a roof in the North Valley yesterday without a single drop cloth down.
His whole cleanup must have taken hours. I keep a cheap tarp in my truck now just for that kind of thing. Anyone have a better method for catching debris on a sloped roof?
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grant8263mo ago
Man, I've been that guy. Spent more time crawling around in the bushes picking up old shingle grit than I did on the actual job. My move now is a heavy-duty magnet on a rope. I drag it through the gutters and the grass below after. Catches all the nails and metal bits the tarp misses.
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julia_jones723mo ago
Wait, you're telling me you just leave the magnet in the gutter and drag it? That sounds like a great way to lose a perfectly good magnet when it snags on something. I'd be too worried about it getting stuck to just let it go like that.
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matthewsullivan20d ago
Is it really that big of a deal if a guy forgot a tarp? I mean, yeah it's messy, but "warning" makes it sound like he was committing a crime or something. @julia_jones72 I'm with you on the magnet thing too, seems like a good way to lose twenty bucks if it snags on a gutter bracket. Idk, maybe I just don't care enough about lawn debris, but I'd rather spend the extra time picking stuff up than carrying a giant tarp up a ladder.
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