Roofers usually do their best to clean up after they install a new roof on a house, using tarps to collect any fallen fasteners or scraps. But often while removing old shingles, nails, staples and other fasteners are inevitably left behind. This can pose a hazard to pets, people, and yard equipment. Some roofers or contractors use magnets to pick up nails from yards, these magnets are sometimes cheap models offered at big box stores and often don’t have any wrap around function which prevents nails from dropping off the magnet when they are brushed against the grass. Once these nails are discovered left in the grass homeowners are left to pick up the remaining metal to eliminate the hazard. This can be done by hand, which is extremely time consuming, or for the sake of efficiency homeowners often end up choosing to do a second pass with their own magnets to ensure the grass is clean and safe. Magnets that homeowners use to pick up nails can be homemade magnetic sweepers built using old speaker magnets some string and a piece of wood(if you are looking at this page you’ve probably considered this). Cheap magnets from big box stores just like the roofers or contractors used the first time, or the homeowner can choose to get a premium nail pickup magnet from Bluestreak to be sure that their yards are clean. So which magnet for nail pickup is best? Check out this article to see the style of magnets that Bluestreak offers and what they are best used for around the house.