Standing-seam metal on a Fort Worth stone-and-brick home

Shallow cross-gables in dark bronze standing seam, with a rear solar array and narrow skylights the panels have to work around.

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 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.

Overhead view looking straight down on a limestone-and-brick single-storey home with shallow cross-gables, showing the full run of matte bronze standing-seam metal and how the planes drain.

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.

Close view of standing-seam panels running to a hip, with the raised seams and a flush-mounted skylight kerb visible.

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: standing-seam panels running to a hip, with the raised seams and a flush-mounted skylight kerb visible.

A limestone-and-brick single-storey home with shallow cross-gables part-way through a standing-seam metal installation, with finished and unfinished areas both visible.

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.

Standing seam hides its fasteners under the seam, which is most of why it lasts. It also means the panel layout has to be set out correctly at the start; it cannot be adjusted later the way a shingle course can.

Solar mounts and skylights are the two places a metal roof is most likely to leak, because both interrupt the panel run. Each penetration is photographed individually rather than as part of a general roof shot.

Fort Worth distinguishes covering work from decking and structural work in its permit guidance. A metal re-roof over old decking often crosses that line, so the deck condition is established before the scope is written.

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