Concrete tile on a Grapevine stucco-and-brick home

Weathered terracotta tile over low hips on cream stucco, with a pool partly visible behind.

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 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 cream stucco-and-brick house with low hips and a rear pool, showing the full run of weathered terracotta concrete tile 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 terracotta tiles running across a low hip, the weathering uneven between courses.

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: terracotta tiles running across a low hip, the weathering uneven between courses.

A cream stucco-and-brick house with low hips and a rear pool part-way through a concrete tile 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.

Low-pitch tile depends more heavily on the underlayment than steeper tile does, because water moves off it more slowly. The pitch is measured rather than estimated.

Pool chemistry and the damp microclimate around a pool accelerate weathering on nearby roof and metalwork. It is a real effect and it is noted where it applies.

Colour-matching replacement tile on a weathered roof is rarely exact. Saying so before the work is better than explaining it afterwards.

How concrete tile behaves

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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.