Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, July 2025

What you are looking at

The first drone frame looks up the back of the main roof toward its peak. One long hip runs from the top down to the right corner, and a valley runs straight down the middle to an inside corner of the eaves. It is a closed valley: shingles from one slope run across it and the other side is trimmed in a clean straight line. Two low box vents sit just under the peak with a goose-neck exhaust vent beside them, and a third box vent and a small pipe vent sit on the lower section at the left.

From the front yard the roof steps up behind the entry gable, which has cream trim, a red brick face and a small shingled return at each lower corner. Lower hips fall away on both sides, and the trunk of a big tree out front reaches into the top corner of the frame.

These are architectural shingles, a laminated style built from two bonded layers so the tabs look thick and uneven. Up close the blend mixes dark brown, tan, rust and a few slate gray tabs. From the yard it settles into a warm medium brown that sits easily against the red brick.

The overhead shot of the back corner shows how many planes this roof has. Hip caps run off in several directions and meet in a cluster, with a brick wall and square pillars in the shade below. Over the side wing the roof carries more hardware: a tall capped flue pipe, a goose-neck vent and a small pipe vent, all dark brown, with a brown drip edge along the eave above the white gutter.

Straight down from above, the whole roof sits inside a ring of mature trees, with lawn behind the house and thick canopy over the front yard. Roofs under heavy shade tend to collect leaves and stay damp longer after summer afternoon storms. Photos Brehm took during the job show the old dark shingles coming off to a bare OSB deck, black synthetic underlayment going down, and the brown drip edge fastened along the eaves.