Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, October 2024
A Gainesville home with tan lap siding and a hip roof broken up by a tall gable faced in white shake-style siding, re-roofed in October 2024. The old shingles came off down to the wood deck, and gray architectural shingles went down over synthetic underlayment.
The finished roof in Gainesville.
Photographed by the Brehm crew after the work was done. Tap any photo to see it full size.
What we did
- Old shingles torn off down to the wood deck
- Synthetic underlayment installed, with peel-and-stick membrane where the roof meets a wall
- White drip edge nailed along the eaves
- Gray architectural shingles with cap shingles on the hips and ridges
- New off-ridge vents, pipe flashings and exhaust hoods
At a glance
- Roof
- Hip roof with a raised gable
- Color
- Gray blend, darker shadow bands
- Details
- Off-ridge vents, capped vent pipes
- Setting
- Fenced yard with raised beds
What you are looking at
The first photo was taken from up on the roof, looking across one of the long slopes. The courses run in straight, even lines, two short vent pipes stand near the left edge, and a long, low metal vent sits just under the ridge. The second photo looks up from the yard at one side of the house: the new roof above tan lap siding and a white gutter, with a pair of tall capped pipes and a black half-round hood near the top.
The shingle is a laminated architectural type in a gray blend. Seen close, some tabs are pale with light granules and others carry a darker band, so the roof looks layered and shadowed even from the ground. The hip photo shows the cap shingles folded over the hip, each one lapping the next, with the field shingles trimmed in a clean line on both sides.
The tall gable is what sets this house apart. It rises out of the lower roof faced in white shake-style siding, with one window between black louvered shutters and white trim along both rakes. The new shingles run right up to the base of that wall. Photos Brehm took during the install show black peel-and-stick membrane pressed into the joint between roof and wall before any shingles went on, since a joint like that is a common place for leaks to start.
Ventilation is easy to pick out in the fourth photo. Two tall black pipes with ribbed caps stand on boots that seal them to the shingles, a half-round hood sits off to one side, and a flat metal vent sits near the ridge behind them. That flat vent is an off-ridge vent, a low box set just below the ridge that lets warm attic air out. They sit in pairs on this roof, and photos Brehm took before the tear-off show white vents of the same shape near the ridge of the old roof.
The last photo looks straight down a capped hip toward the back yard, where a board fence closes in a curve of lawn, mulch beds and a row of raised garden boxes. In the first photo, tall trees rise just beyond the fence line.
Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the deck stripped bare, gray synthetic underlayment rolled across the slopes, and white drip edge nailed along the eaves above the gutters. With Florida sun, summer heat and afternoon storms, the layers under the shingles matter as much as the shingles you see from the street.
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