Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, September 2025
A single-story ranch in Gainesville with tan block walls, black shutters and big shade trees hung with Spanish moss all around it. The roof was replaced in September 2025 with Owens Corning Duration shingles in Onyx Black, laid over synthetic underlayment and sections of new plywood decking.
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 old decking replaced with new plywood sheets
- Synthetic underlayment rolled out over the deck
- New architectural shingles installed
- Ridge vents on the main and cross wing ridges, new pipe flashings on the plumbing vents
At a glance
- Roof
- Gable roof with a cross wing
- Color
- Owens Corning Duration, Onyx Black
- Details
- Ridge vents, closed-cut valley
- Setting
- Lawn under moss-draped shade trees
What you are looking at
The first photo looks over the front of the house. The long main roof slopes down over a covered front porch with white posts and two rocking chairs, then turns the corner into the cross wing, and the two roofs join in a valley at the inside corner by the porch. A skylight and a few black vent pipes come through the roof near where the wings meet.
Seen from the other side, the cross wing ends in a white gable, and its peak carries a ridge vent. That is a low vent tucked under the cap shingles along the top of the roof, there to give warm attic air a way out. The third photo runs straight along the main ridge. The vent covers the middle stretch, and plain ridge cap shingles finish the end closest to the camera.
Up close, the shingles read as near-black with lighter gray patches scattered through them. That mottled, layered look comes from architectural shingles, which are made of two bonded layers. A scattering of leaves had already settled on the new roof when the drone went up.
The close frame shows one of the valleys. Courses from one slope carry straight across it, while the shingles on the opposite slope stop at a crisp diagonal cut, which is how a closed-cut valley is built. Up the slope beside it sits a black hooded vent cap. With this many trees overhead, valleys are where leaves pile up, so they are worth clearing now and then.
Photos Brehm took during the tear-off fill in the rest. Sections of the old wood deck were cut out and new plywood sheets, numbered in marker, went in their place before synthetic underlayment covered the deck. New flashings went around the plumbing vents, and blue tarps lay over the shrubs along the walls. Photos Brehm took in August 2025 show the roof it replaced: flat light gray shingles and metal pipe vents streaked with rust.
The last photo looks at the back of the house through strands of moss hanging from a big limb. The whole lot sits in the shade of tall trees, and the long back slope stretches out underneath them.
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