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  1. #1
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    Default help Identify these marks on roof

    To start with, I wish the photo was better, but unfortunately I had a camera malfunction while on the roof so I had to take photos with my phone and forgot to reformat the camera setting. This was the only photo I could get to upload. Now to the issue. The roof I was on had uniform dark lines across the middle of some shingles. It appeared to be granule loss but I'm not sure if it is by design, a defect, or part of the normal aging process. The roof is a 15 to 20 yr. Roof and was installed 9 to 10 yrs ago. It is on both the north and south facing slopes. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

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    Default Re: help Identify these marks

    Appears to be marks left by shingle jacks used for scaffold. Roof does not appear to be so steep they needed to use them though.

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    Default Re: help Identify these marks

    If there is granular loss on the stripes, then I lean toward manufacturer's defect.

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    If there is granular loss on the stripes, then I lean toward manufacturer's defect.

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  4. #4
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    Default Re: help Identify these marks

    Manufacturers defect randomly distributed as they blended bundles during installation. It may have just been one or two bundles of shingles but the roofer did a good job of "shuffling" to blend but he missed the strip or the granules washed off after installation.

    Jim Luttrall
    www.MrInspector.net
    Plano, Texas

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