Four roofs, one neighbourhood.

By the time we got to this house we had already replaced three roofs within a quarter mile of its front door. Same season, same storm corridor, same conversation four times over.

This one is a Craftsman — sage shake gables, stacked stone veneer at the base, a deep covered porch on square columns, and a roof that fans out into four separate front-facing peaks before it even gets to the main ridge.

That elevation is the whole challenge. On a house where the roof mostly runs away from the street, a slightly wandering cut line along a rake is invisible. Here, four gable ends face the sidewalk at once. Every rake, every ridge cap, every place where a gable ties back into the main field sits at eye level from the front walk.

Craftsman rooflines are unforgiving in a specific way: the eye reads them as a set. Four peaks that should rhyme with each other. If one ridge cap runs a course heavier than the one beside it, nobody can tell you what's wrong — they just know the roof looks off.

The deep porch overhang adds its own problem. It's a low-slope run tucked under the main roof, which is exactly where ice backs up in a Logan County February. That transition wants ice-and-water well past code minimum, not a strip at the eave and a hope.

The same full GAF certified system as the other three houses: GAF Timberline HDZ architectural shingles, rated to 130 mph when installed as a complete system with the required accessories, 25 years of StainGuard Plus algae protection, and a 50-year shingle warranty.

Ridge vent along the main runs. New step flashing where every gable ties back into the field — and on this elevation that's four separate tie-ins across the front alone. New pipe boots. Cap shingles set to read consistently across all four peaks, because on this house that's the thing you actually see.

Four roofs, one neighbourhood, one season. That is what happens when a storm corridor runs through a subdivision and one contractor documents the damage properly the first time. The fourth call did not come from an advertisement. It came from a quarter mile of visible work.