Shingle and Flat Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, August 2025

What you are looking at

The front drone view takes in most of the main roof. It is a hip roof, so each side slopes down to an eave and the corners are lined with cap shingles that climb to short ridges. The painted brick chimney rises near the middle, dark ridge vent runs along the ridges, and black plumbing vent pipes poke through in several spots. On the right, the two-story wing stands above the main roof, its upper walls in tan lap siding.

The second drone frame looks down one slope of the wing's gable roof, with a strip of ridge vent along the peak and a single vent pipe partway down. From this height the shingle reads as a gray blend scattered with tan and soft blue tabs. The edge of the low-slope section shows in the lower right corner.

Up on the roof, the chimney close-up shows bright metal flashing wrapped around the base where the brick meets the shingles. Below it is a closed-cut valley: shingles from one slope run through the valley, and the other slope is trimmed in a straight line over them. Another frame shows ridge vent where a ridge meets a hip, with cap shingles bent over the top and the slotted black edges of the vent showing on both sides. A ridge vent lets warm attic air out at the peak, which helps limit heat build-up under a Florida roof.

Photos Brehm took during the job fill in what the finished roof hides: the old roofing stripped to the wood deck, synthetic underlayment held down with green plastic cap nails, white metal drip edge nailed along the eaves, and flashings set around the vent pipes as the shingles went on. The bundle wrappers in those photos read Owens Corning and Duration.

The low-slope section is nearly flat, so instead of shingles it was covered with a dark granulated rolled membrane laid in overlapping courses. The last photo looks across it to the back yard: open lawn, a small shed with a metal roof, and the wooden deck stair climbing to the wing, all under big shade trees hung with Spanish moss.