Pass 01 of 5
Aerial, oblique
The pass that shows how the roof sits on the building — planes, hips, valleys, and how it meets everything around it.
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Dimensional shingle on an Arlington brick bungalow
A modest red-brick bungalow on a narrow lot with a detached rear garage — two separate roofs, and both get assessed.
System Architectural shingleProperty ResidentialViews 5
The five passes
The same five views, every time.
A roof assessed from one angle is a roof assessed once. These are the passes every Jacob assessment makes, in this order, so that coverage does not depend on how the day is going.
Pass 02 of 5
Aerial, plan
Straight down. This is the view that makes drainage legible and stops a plane being missed because it was awkward to reach.
Pass 03 of 5
From the street
What the property actually looks like to a person standing in front of it — the only view most quotes are based on.
Pass 04 of 5
System detail
Close enough to read the assembly: courses, seams, terminations, penetrations. Findings are photographed at this range with something for scale.
On this roof: a shingle field meeting the fascia and drip edge above the gutter line.
Pass 05 of 5
Work in progress
Mid-installation, where the parts that end up hidden are still visible. A roof is easiest to judge before it is finished.
What this roof raises
Three things a roof like this makes you check.
Every property puts its own questions in front of an assessor. These are the ones this system on this kind of house raises — and the same ones we would bring to yours.
01
A detached garage is a second roof with its own age, its own condition and often its own history. It is assessed and photographed as a separate structure rather than folded into the house.
02
Narrow lots restrict access for tear-off and disposal. That is a practical constraint that belongs in the scope rather than turning up as a surprise on the day.
03
Older bungalow roofs frequently have limited ventilation by modern standards. Adding ventilation during a replacement is usually cheap; adding it afterwards rarely is.
Book an assessment
Tell us where, and what you noticed.
Four steps, three things to type. We confirm the address is in our area, then come and look at the whole roof — not just the bit you pointed at.