Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, September 2025

What you are looking at

The top-down drone frame shows the whole roof at once. It is one long hip roof: two long slopes meet at a straight main ridge, and each end folds down into a triangular hip, so there are no gables and no valleys to flash. Short black plumbing vents are scattered across both long slopes.

From the front, the building is red brick with dark brown shutters and red entry doors, with an air conditioner unit set into the wall under most windows. Each door has its own walkway across the lawn. The new shingles finish in a straight line at the eave, with a dark drip edge over a pale wood fascia board.

Looking down the main ridge toward one hip end, the ridge vent shows as a slim dark strip on each side of the ridge cap shingles. A ridge vent is a vented channel under the cap that lets warm attic air out along the peak. Two black hooded exhaust vents sit near the end of the ridge, with a few plumbing vents on the slopes around them.

Up close the shingle is a laminated architectural style in a gray blend. Light gray, mid gray and dark gray pieces are mixed at random, some with a faint warm cast, so from the air the roof reads as a soft medium gray. Photos Brehm took while the shingles were staged on the roof show the Duration name printed on the pink bundle wrappers.

Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show what sits under that finish. The old gray three-tab shingles came off, sections of the deck were cut out down to the rafters and replaced with new plywood sheets, and rotted wood along the eave edge was rebuilt with new lumber, and black synthetic underlayment went down.

One end corner of the roof looks over open lawn, a wooden privacy fence and a line of trees and palms. With many units under one roof, a sound deck and steady attic airflow matter to everyone living below, especially through Florida summers, afternoon storms and hurricane season.