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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Galvalume standing seam on a Denton farmhouse
A contemporary board-and-batten farmhouse in Galvalume, with black trim and long uninterrupted panel runs.
System Standing-seam metalProperty 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: long standing-seam panels running to the ridge, the seams throwing hard shadows in direct sun.
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
Long uninterrupted runs are the easiest metal roof to install well and the least forgiving of a set-out error, because a small misalignment at the eave is a large one at the ridge.
02
Bare Galvalume weathers to a duller finish over the first few years. That is the material behaving normally, and it is worth knowing before it happens rather than after.
03
Metal over an open-rafter or minimally-insulated assembly can produce condensation on the underside. Whether that applies depends on what is under the panels, which is checked rather than assumed.
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.