Dimensional shingle on a Flower Mound stone-and-brick home

A broad hip roof in weathered brown, with a greenbelt behind and heavy tree cover to one side.

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 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 stone-and-brick house with a broad hip roof backing onto a greenbelt, showing the full run of weathered-brown dimensional shingles 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 a hip corner where three planes converge, the cap shingles turning the angle.

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 corner where three planes converge, the cap shingles turning the angle.

A stone-and-brick house with a broad hip roof backing onto a greenbelt part-way through a architectural shingle 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.

A greenbelt behind a house means more organic debris and more shade on one side. Both are recorded, because they explain why one slope is ageing faster than another.

Broad hip roofs shed well but concentrate water at the hip corners. Those corners are where the covering is worked hardest.

Weathering that is uneven across a roof is information. Even weathering usually means age; uneven weathering usually means something else, and it is worth finding out which.

How architectural shingle behaves

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