Shingle and Flat Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, August 2025
A single-story Gainesville home with a stepped chimney, a pool and cream vertical siding out back, re-roofed in August 2025. The pitched roof went back on in Owens Corning TruDefinition Duration shingles in a brown blend, and the low-slope roof over the screened porch was re-covered in the same job.
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 deck
- Sections of decking replaced with new plywood sheets
- Synthetic underlayment and Owens Corning TruDefinition Duration shingles installed
- Ridge vent along the main ridge, plus new brown roof vents
- Low-slope porch roof re-covered with a brown roll membrane
At a glance
- Roof
- Gables, hips, low-slope porch section
- Color
- Owens Corning Duration, brown blend
- Details
- Ridge vent, brown stacks, chimney
- Setting
- Pool yard under moss-draped oaks
What you are looking at
The drone photo looks across the main ridge toward the backyard. A ridge vent runs the length of the peak under capped shingles, and a tall brown vent stack stands just left of center. Past the ridge, the porch roof shows as a smooth brown strip, with the pool deck and lawn beyond its edge and the chimney at the far end.
Toward the front, a gable wing ties into the main roof, and the second drone frame follows the long valley where the two meet. A valley is the inside corner between two roof planes, where water from both sides collects and runs off. Up close the shingle reads as a mix of browns, tans, slate gray and a few rust-colored pieces in every course, which settles into a medium brown from the yard.
From the backyard, a gable end with white trim sits in front of a taller roof plane, both above cream vertical siding. The chimney rises through the roof beside them, painted brick with a top that steps out in layers. Tall pines and a palm stand around the house under a blue sky.
On the roof itself, one photo shows where the ridge vent stops and the cap shingles split down two hips, the sloped edges where a roof turns a corner. Another follows an upper roof edge that overhangs a lower plane, capped in white metal trim, with a piece of gray metal flashing at the corner. The last photo looks along the slope at two tall brown stacks and a short pipe, with oaks hung in Spanish moss behind them.
Brehm's photos from the tear-off day show the deck bare after the old shingles came off, with fresh plywood sheets cut in among the stained older ones. Synthetic underlayment went down over the wood, and the bundles staged on the roof carry Owens Corning TruDefinition Duration wrappers. A slot was cut open along the ridge before the vent and cap shingles covered it.
The porch roof is close to flat, too shallow for shingles to shed water from course to course, so it gets a rolled membrane instead. In photos Brehm took before the job it was a weathered gray. Now it is brown, in step with the shingles around it.
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