Inspected a new construction home this week, and the roof was in progress, so I took a look at the nails.
These are all clearly over-driven, so I called it out in my report, and get a load of the “excuse” by the builder and roofer
Finally heard from the roofer the only locations they were over shot at is done on purpose around the location where they stop for the inspection. They fold the shingles over so it stops water penetration while the shingles are in progress.
Yeah, they over-shot the exposed ones on purpose, so the inspector can see over-shot nails. Which means they shot all the ones that are now covered up at one pressure, then changed the pressure to shoot the next ones, uh-huh.
Then when a tropical storm hits the other side of the state (or Gulf) and the shingles blow off, they blame it on the “hurricane” “it’s not our fault”. Hopefully they didn’t to the same thing to the roof sheathing nails.
I told the buyer they may not do anything about it (replace the whole roof)…
But at least now, they have it in the report when a hurricane does tear off half their roof.
The exposed nails are clearly over-driven and those (damaged) shingles should replaced. If more over-driven nails (damaged shingles) are exposed during the repair of the observed damage, those shingles should also be replaced.
I have IKO Cambridge on my house that I installed over 30 years ago and they performed great. They are losing granules, but other than that, they are still flat with no curling, cracking or showing signs for replacement yet. Maybe in an other 2-4 years.
Nice catch on the observable nails though! If I was the buyer, I would want some of shingles pulled up so that I could see if this condition was present in other places. I have no idea what the contractor means when they say they did it on purpose in this area so they could fold over the shingles to prevent moisture intrusion prior to resuming work? Sounds like gobbly gook to me.
Yes, I don’t pull hard. I don’t detach them or pull the nails up. (If I accidentally pulled too hard I would come back and fix it. that would be damage)
Could be. Hopefully everyone is ignoring that part since the inspection does not require dismantling systems. I know I’d be pissed as a seller to come home and find out the inspector has pried up a bunch of shingles, lol.
I’m still doing the courses. But I didn’t complete roof inspections course. I’m a little confused about their explanation and also if that’s a good or bad thing.
