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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Dimensional shingle on a two-storey Coppell home
Dark slate shingles over asymmetrical gables with a small rear dormer — more transitions than the front elevation suggests.
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 dormer cheek meeting the main roof plane, with the step flashing visible along the junction.
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 dormer adds two roof-to-wall junctions and a small roof of its own. Dormers are a common leak origin and are photographed from more than one angle.
02
Asymmetrical gables mean the two sides of the roof age differently, because one gets more sun and weather than the other. A single sample tells you about half the roof.
03
Two-storey work changes the access and the safety plan. Where a section cannot be reached safely, that is written down as a limit rather than guessed at.
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.