Shingle and Flat Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, September 2025
A one-story Gainesville home with pale green walls and dark green shutters, a gable roof with a cross wing, and a low-slope roof over a room at the back. In September 2025 the old gray shingles came off and Owens Corning Duration shingles in Quarry Gray went on, both names legible on the bundle wrappers Brehm photographed 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 gray shingles torn off down to the wood deck, with sections of decking replaced by new plywood sheets
- Black underlayment fastened with cap nails, and white metal drip edge along the roof edges
- Owens Corning Duration shingles installed, with ridge vents on the main ridge and the cross wing
- Old domed skylight replaced by a flat glass skylight, and new flashings at the vent pipes
- Low-slope roof over the back room covered in a self-adhered base sheet and a dark top sheet
At a glance
- Roof
- Gable roof, cross wing, low-slope room
- Color
- Owens Corning Duration, Quarry Gray
- Details
- Ridge vents, glass skylight, black vents
- Setting
- Fenced back yard, shrub beds
What you are looking at
One drone view looks down on the back of the house. The long main slope fills most of the frame, and the cross wing rises behind it toward the street, with a ridge vent running along the top of each. The new skylight sits just below the main ridge. In the lower left corner is the low-slope roof over the back room, a dark charcoal surface that looks almost black next to the pale shingles.
Another frame faces one of the gable ends. The peak is trimmed in vertical boards around a louvered vent, with dark green shutters on the two windows below. On this ridge the vent ends short of the gable, and solid cap shingles carry on the rest of the way to the edge. A ridge vent is a slotted channel under those cap shingles that lets hot attic air escape along the peak, which helps limit heat build-up under a roof in the Florida sun.
Along the side of the house, the cross wing meets the main roof in a valley above a recessed corner with a white side door. The close frame of that same valley shows the courses from the two slopes coming together in one straight line, with black vent pipes rising on both sides of it. Looking along the main ridge, the vent runs the width of the frame under a row of caps, the second ridge vent branches off toward the wing, and the flat glass skylight sits in a dark frame beside a black hooded vent.
Up close the shingle color breaks into light gray, blue gray and soft tan pieces, so from a distance it settles into a pale silver gray against the green walls.
Brehm's tear-off photos show a patchwork deck: lighter new plywood sheets set in among the older, darker ones, then black underlayment held down with green plastic cap nails and lengths of white drip edge laid out along the edges. The low-slope roof got a pale blue gray base sheet first and then a dark top sheet, with the peeled release film still rolled up on the surface. Brehm's July 2025 photos of the old roof show weathered gray shingles, a domed plastic skylight with a stained frame and a galvanized box vent beside the ridge.
A wood privacy fence closes in the back yard, and shrubs grow close along the walls. With a skylight, several vent pipes and valley lines on one roof, those are the spots worth a look after a hard summer storm.
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