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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Standing-seam metal on a Southlake courtyard house
A long, low stone home on a courtyard plan in matte charcoal, with narrow skylights set into the 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: a panel run interrupted by a narrow skylight, with the seam and the kerb upstand in the same frame.
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 courtyard plan means inward-draining roof sections. Anything that drains inwards has less margin for error than a roof that sheds to open eaves, and it gets more attention, not less.
02
Panel length matters on long runs: metal expands and contracts, and the clips have to allow it. A run that has been fixed rigidly will show it at the seams, which is what the close view is for.
03
Charcoal and other dark finishes run hotter than pale ones. On a house with limited attic ventilation this is worth quantifying rather than assuming, because it affects both comfort and the life of the assembly below.
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.