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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Concrete tile on a broad Colleyville stone residence
Muted brown concrete tile over irregular hips on a large stone house with a circular drive.
System Concrete tileProperty 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: concrete tiles running to a hip, with the hip tiles bedded over the field course beneath.
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
On a tile roof the tile is a rain screen, not the waterproof layer. The underlayment beneath it is what keeps water out, and it usually fails long before the tile does — which is why a tile roof can look perfect and still leak.
02
Tile is heavy. Any change of system on a house built for tile, or to tile from something lighter, is a structural question before it is a roofing one.
03
Individual cracked tiles are ordinary and repairable. What matters is whether the underlayment below has reached the end of its life, and that cannot be established from the ground.
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.