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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Architectural shingle across a large Keller roof
Deep-brown shingles over multiple hips and a screened rear porch — a big ordinary roof, where the risk is skipping a plane rather than missing a defect.
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 hip run where two shingle fields meet, the cap shingles overlapping along the 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
On a roof this size the failure mode is not missing a defect, it is skipping a plane. Every plane is counted off the overhead view before anyone goes up, and the count at the end has to match.
02
A screened porch roof usually ties into the main roof at a lower pitch. Changes of pitch are where water slows down and where flashing details have to be right.
03
A roof this size comes off in sections, and which section is open when the day ends is a weather decision rather than a scheduling one. How that gets handled belongs in the conversation at the start of the job.
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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.