Shingle Roof Replacement in Lake City, FL

What you are looking at

The main part of the house wears a hip roof with a small gable over the entry, which means the sides slope up from the eaves instead of ending in tall flat walls. The drone frame looks down on one full slope, a broad, nearly triangular stretch of shingles framed by capped hips, with a white edge along the eave and patchy shade from the oaks falling across it.

Up close the shingle is a blend. Most of it is gray, with tan and pale blue-gray tabs scattered through, so the roof reads as a soft gray from the lawn and shows its mix of colors from above. The line name comes from the bundle wrappers that show up in photos Brehm took during the install.

Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the old shingles stripped down to the plywood deck. A few sections of the deck were replaced with new plywood, and the fresh sheets stand out pale against the older, darker wood. Black underlayment went down over the deck, held with plastic cap nails, and white metal drip edge was nailed along the roof edges before any shingles went on.

The close drone frame shows where the hips meet at the top of the main roof. Each hip is covered with cap shingles, thicker pieces lapped one over the next, and a short ridge vent sits under the caps at the very top. A ridge vent is a vented strip along the peak that lets warm attic air out, which helps limit heat build-up under a Florida roof. Lower on the slope, a plumbing vent pipe comes up through the shingles inside a fitted boot.

The lower roofs got the same shingles. The long one-story slope at the front of the house is shown from above, half in shade, with palms, oaks and a stand of trees turning orange beyond the ridge.

Behind the house, live oaks hung with Spanish moss, one trunk wrapped in ivy, shade a lawn that opens onto a wide field crossed by a concrete path, with marsh grass and open water past it. Trees this close drop leaves and moss on a roof, so the lower slopes are the place to look after a windy week.