Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL, March 2026

What you are looking at

This is a big hip roof with several wings, and from the drone it reads as one warm brown surface. Up close the shingles mix rust, tan, gray and a darker brown, so the color shifts with the light. Two chimney chases rise through the roof, both clad in brown siding with metal tops.

Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the old shingles stripped to the plywood deck. Decking is the layer of sheathing the shingles are nailed to, and several sections of it were cut out and replaced with new plywood sheets, some of them along the eaves. The whole deck was then covered with a dark underlayment held down with plastic cap nails.

Six skylights sit on the back slopes, four of them close to one chimney. Photos Brehm took in February show the old roof with domed plastic skylights. On install day the new flat-glass units went in, still banded from the factory, and the shingles were worked in around their metal frames.

The close drone frames show the smaller parts. A ridge vent runs under the cap shingles on the ridges, a low slotted strip that helps let warm attic air out at the top. Two round solar attic fans sit on the new roof, and the plumbing vent pipes, bare metal during the install, are now brown to match the roof.

The side view shows two-tone brick, darker brown above a lighter tan band near the ground, under brown gutters. The overhead shot shows a small courtyard with a bare tree tucked into one side of the house, the pool and patio out back, and tall trees around the lot. The dark low-slope cover over part of the patio looks the same in the February photos, so it is not part of the work shown here.

Gainesville roofs spend long summers in strong sun and afternoon storms, and on a roof like this one the openings are where trouble tends to start. With six skylights, two chimneys, two fans and several vents, the fit around each one matters as much as the shingles.