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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Impact-resistant shingle on a McKinney stone-fronted home
Warm-grey impact-rated shingles on a one-and-a-half-storey stone frontage, with an offset garage and a mature oak over the drive.
System Impact-resistant 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: an impact-rated shingle field with the ridge above it and the manufacturer's course lines still crisp.
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
An impact rating is a laboratory classification, not a guarantee about your roof. It describes how a sample behaved in a controlled test, and it is worth having — but it is not a promise that hail will not damage the roof.
02
Some Texas insurers offer a premium credit for a Class 4 rated covering. Whether that applies is a question for the insurer, and Jacob does not make representations about coverage or premiums.
03
A one-and-a-half-storey plan usually means a roof-to-wall transition at the upper level. Those step flashings are a common leak origin and are photographed course by course rather than as a single shot.
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.