Old Metairie is not a Veterans ranch
Old Metairie and Metairie Club Gardens sit under live oaks on streets that were built earlier than the Veterans grid. Roofs there are often more than one plane, with closed valleys, dormers, and the occasional tile or metal accent. A limb in a valley is a different repair from a hip that has lost its granules. We look at the deck under the debris before we name a replacement.
North of Veterans, toward West Esplanade and the lake, the houses are mostly single-family brick with asphalt hips. Bucktown’s raised camps take wind straight off Pontchartrain. Those roofs are simpler in shape and harder on fasteners and ridge. We do not write one Metairie scope for both sides of Veterans.
