Just had a new roof completed the other day and a neighbor commented this afternoon that there aren't any pieces of tape scattered around the yard. He says shingles have a piece of cellaphane tape covering a strip of tar or something that serves as an adhesive so the shingles stay put. He said that sometimes roofers neglect to remove the tape which makes the shingles vulnerable to wind damage and that if it ahd been removed it would be scattered around the lawn. Living in S. Florida with the threat of hurricanes, this additional adhesive would be important.
In fact I did come across a piece of scrap shingle and it still had this tape on it. My question is, is there a way to check the shingles without disturbing the installation job too much to see if tape remains on a random number of shingles or would it be prudent to contact someone who actually knows what they're doing to take a look. And if I do find that the tape has not been removed, what can be done about that? If all or most of them have to be removed does that mean the paper beneath them also would have to be replaced?
It wouldn't surprise me to find that they had not removed the tape because they have already had to come back on three other ocassions to correct not insignificant oversights in their work, from failing to replace rotton wood to sloppy installation of fascia to reusing the aluminum drip edge they had to remove to replace the wood.
Thanks (again) for any suggestions.