Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, October 2025

What you are looking at

The drone view looks down the length of the house from one gable end. From this height the new shingles read as a soft gray, with slate blue and tan mixed through them in a random pattern. Two black box vents sit near the ridge on the left slope, and the pair of skylights sits on the right slope beside a plumbing vent. The cream chimney chase and the light blue side wall of the clerestory rise above the main roof.

Straight down from above, the layout is easier to follow. The chimney chase shows as a white square near the middle, the two skylights sit one above the other near one end, and ridge cap shingles trace each ridge line. A wing reaches out into the yard beside a brick patio.

Another wing ends in its own gable, with a louvered vent in the wall below. Where its roof ties into the main roof, the shingles form a valley on each side. A valley is the inside corner where two slopes meet, and it carries the water from both of them. A box vent sits just off the wing's ridge.

From another angle, the clerestory wall slopes down to the roof with a cream trim board along its base, and the chimney chase stands behind it in cream panels under a round metal cap. Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the base of this wood-framed chase opened down to its framing and new metal flashing wrapped around it before the shingles went back on. Flashing is the bent metal that seals the joint where something like a chimney comes up through the roof.

Up close on one of the ridges, the cap shingles lap over one another in a tidy row, and the field shingles show their full mix of gray, blue-gray and tan. The skylight close-up shows the brown frames of both skylights sitting in the new shingles, with the glass reflecting the trees overhead.

Brehm's tear-off photos also show a few spots opened to the rafters where old decking came out, with new plywood sheets fastened in their place. The same set shows a dark underlayment over the deck, new white drip edge going on along the edges, and the black box vents set in sealant. The white gutters were already on the house; Brehm's photos from before the tear-off show them in place.