Shingle Roof Replacement in Gainesville, FL
A single-story Gainesville home with sage green siding, cream trim and a roof full of hips, gables and valleys, re-roofed in August 2026. The old roof came off down to the deck, and Owens Corning Duration architectural shingles went on in a gray blend.
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 and underlayment torn off down to the wood deck
- Damaged spots in the deck cut out and patched with new plywood
- Dark, sand-textured underlayment laid over the whole deck
- New white drip edge and architectural shingles installed
- Brown off-ridge vents and hooded vents installed
At a glance
- Roof
- Single-story hip and gable
- Color
- Gray blend, cream trim
- Details
- Off-ridge and hooded vents
- Setting
- Tall pines, fenced back yard
What you are looking at
The first photo looks across the garage side of the house. A white metal edge finishes the gable where the shingles stop, and the long roof plane runs back toward a hip with a cluster of small brown vents near the top. The drone photos were taken on an overcast morning in late August, and a few pine needles had already landed on the new shingles.
Up close the shingle is a mix of tones rather than one flat color: charcoal, slate gray and some lighter tabs with flecks of tan and brown in the granules. Architectural shingles are built from two layers bonded together, which gives the roof its staggered, shadowed look instead of the even rows of a basic three-tab shingle.
Above a pair of wide windows, the main hip roof meets two lower gable roofs, and each meeting point forms a valley, the channel where two roof planes drain together. Here the shingles from one plane run through the valley and the other side is trimmed in a straight line along it, a method called a closed-cut valley. The third photo shows the same detail at the side gable, beside a louvered gable vent and a crape myrtle in bloom.
Ventilation stands out on this roof. Two long, low brown vents sit just below the ridge over the garage; these are off-ridge vents, and the work photos show them being set and sealed. Farther along, a row of brown hooded vents and a dark vent pipe come through the hip roof. Attics in Gainesville get very hot in summer, and vents high on the roof give that heat a way out.
The work photos fill in what the finished shots cannot show. A tape measure was laid along the nail lines of the deck sheet after sheet to check the spacing, and new white drip edge was nailed along the eaves and gable edges before the shingles went on. Drip edge is the bent metal strip at the roof edge that steers water off the shingles and away from the fascia board, which matters during heavy afternoon storms.
Out back, the hip roof looks over a fenced yard with a paver walk, a raised garden bed and metal awnings over two windows. Tall pines and oaks stand around the lot, the kind of trees that keep dropping needles on a roof. During tear-off, blue tarps covered the shrubs and flower beds along the house.
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