Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, May 2025

What you are looking at

The first photo was taken up on the roof, looking along one of the hips. Hip cap shingles run down the left edge, and the broad plane in the middle drops toward a valley where it meets a lower section of the roof. The main roof is a hip, which slopes on every side, so there are more capped edges to finish than on a plain gable.

From the front yard the new roof reads as a soft gray-brown above the stacked stone gable. Up close the shingles mix tan, beige, light gray and a darker gray-brown, which is what gives architectural shingles their layered look. Photos Brehm took before the work show the old roof was a much darker gray. In photos taken during the install, the nailing strip on the new shingles reads Owens Corning.

The third photo shows the ridge vent: a low, dark vent strip along the ridge, covered by ridge cap shingles, with a taller hip section rising behind it. A ridge vent lets warm attic air out along the peak, which helps limit heat build-up under a Florida roof. In the valley photo, two roof planes meet and the shingles run through the valley with no metal showing.

Two more photos show the vents. A tall black flue pipe with a round grille cap comes up through the shingles with a collar at its base, and a small brown vent pipe stands farther up the same slope. On another slope a brown hooded exhaust vent sits near the top of a hip.

Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the old shingles stripped to the deck, then new plywood sheets, numbered and measured, going in where sections of the old deck came out. Synthetic underlayment printed with the Brehm name went over the deck, held down with plastic cap nails, before the shingles went on.

The last photo looks off the back of the house, where the roof meets the white frame of a screened enclosure. Beyond it are a back lawn, a row of shrubs and a white privacy fence, with oaks hung with Spanish moss around the lot.