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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Architectural shingle on a 1970s Garland home
Cool-grey shingles over a simple hip on a single-storey brick house with a side carport.
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 hip meeting the eave, the shingle courses stepping down to the drip edge.
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 simple hip is the most straightforward roof there is, which makes it the one where an unnecessary replacement is easiest to sell. Repair is often the honest answer here.
02
Carport roofs are usually lower-pitch and often a different material. They are assessed on their own terms rather than assumed to match the house.
03
Houses of this age in Garland frequently have original ridge ventilation that has been covered over by later work. It is worth finding before specifying anything.
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.