Shingle Roof Replacement in Alachua, FL, October 2025

What you are looking at

The first photo looks straight down the main ridge from the drone. The ridge vent shows as a thin dark slot on each side of the ridge cap shingles, and it runs nearly the full length of the ridge. Toward the front of the house a second, shorter ridge sits beside the main one, and both of those sections end in gables.

From directly overhead the shape is easy to read. The back of the house ends in a hip, where two hip lines angle down from the end of the main ridge to the back corners. The same frame shows three black box vents and one plumbing vent pipe, all on the back half of the roof, with mature trees and a fenced lawn around the house.

Up close, the architectural shingles mix lighter and darker gray tabs with a slight blue cast, which is why the roof reads blue-gray from the yard. The third photo shows two of the box vents and the plumbing vent pipe on one slope. A box vent is a low hooded opening that lets warm air out of the attic, which helps limit heat build-up under the Florida sun. The fourth photo shows where the ridge vent stops and the thicker hip cap shingles take over.

Photos Brehm took in August show the old roof: three-tab shingles with bare galvanized metal vents. On October 7 all of it came off down to the wood deck. White synthetic underlayment went down next, held with plastic cap nails, and white drip edge was fastened along the eaves. The plumbing vent got a new black flashing plate before the shingles closed in around it, and the ridge was cut open for the vent before the cap shingles went on.

The last photo looks down at the back corner of the house. Cream lap siding and white trim run under the new eaves, and a small concrete patio with a covered grill sits inside the wooden privacy fence. The drone photos were taken three days after the roof was finished.