Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, September 2025
A one-story stucco home in Gainesville with an arched entry porch, a chimney chase and tall oaks shading the yard. In September 2025 Brehm stripped off the old brown shingles and roofed the house in Owens Corning Duration shingles in Driftwood; all three names can be read on the shingle bundles staged on the roof.
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
- Sections of decking cut out and replaced with new plywood
- Synthetic underlayment and brown metal drip edge installed
- Duration shingles in Driftwood, with cap shingles on every hip
- New brown roof vents and metal flashing along the stucco walls
At a glance
- Roof
- Hip roof with front gables
- Color
- Owens Corning Duration, Driftwood
- Details
- Brown vents, drip edge, flashing
- Setting
- Stucco home under tall oaks
What you are looking at
The first photo is a drone view from above the front yard. The main roof is a hip roof, meaning it slopes down on all sides instead of ending in a flat gable wall, with gabled sections at the front, including one over the arched entry porch. Where those smaller roofs tie into the main slopes they form valleys, and each hip is finished with a row of cap shingles. A pipe with a round tan cap stands near the middle, and the chimney chase rises at the far corner.
Driftwood is a blend rather than a single color, and the drone frames show it best. In full sun the tabs mix tan, light gray, brown and a muted blue-gray, so the back slope reads as a warm gray-brown. Under the oaks the same shingles look much darker, close to charcoal, which is why the ground photos and the drone photos seem to show two different roofs.
Most of the vents are grouped on the back slopes. Two long, low-profile vents sit just below the top of the roof with a smaller hooded vent under them, all finished in brown, and the plumbing vent pipes come up through the shingles in ribbed dark boots. Vents like these let warm attic air out, which helps limit heat build-up under the Florida sun.
The trim is dark brown all the way around. Brown metal drip edge, the bent strip that finishes a roof edge, runs along the eaves and up the rakes over the entry. Where a lower roof meets a stucco wall, dark metal flashing covers the joint, as in the ground photo beside the half-round louvered vent in the front gable. The stucco chimney chase has a metal cap on top.
Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the old brown shingles coming off down to the wood deck. Several sections of the old deck were cut out, leaving the rafters open, and new plywood sheets were fitted into the gaps. The whole roof was then covered in a white synthetic underlayment held with green plastic cap nails, and the brown drip edge went on before the shingles. The tear-off and the new shingles were photographed on the same day.
The lot is shaded by big oaks, with a wooden privacy fence and a screened pool enclosure off the back. The ground photos were taken under a blue sky with scattered clouds, and a few leaves had already landed on the new shingles by the time the drone went up.
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