Shingle Roof Replacement in Leesburg, FL

What you are looking at

This roof is busier than it looks from the street. The overhead drone frames show hips meeting at odd angles, a front gable over the entry and a long stretch of roof running beside the screened lanai cage at the back. All of it was re-shingled, and the finished drone photos were taken in mid December on a clear afternoon.

The shingle is a blend of light tan, cream and gray granules with darker brown shadow lines. Its color shifts with the light. Planes facing the sun read warm beige, while the shaded hips toward the lanai look gray-brown, which is why the roof seems two-toned from above even though it is one shingle. The before photos from November show a uniform charcoal shingle, so the house now looks a good deal lighter.

The metal trim is dark brown. Drip edge runs along the eaves above the white gutters and up the rakes of the entry gable. Drip edge is the bent metal strip at the roof edge that steers water into the gutter instead of behind it. Most of the vents match it: paired brown box vents on the back slopes, plumbing vent pipes and a rounded exhaust hood, with a small silver dome near the box vents. On the main ridge the cap shingles sit slightly raised over a ridge vent, which lets warm attic air escape at the peak.

Photos Brehm took during the install show what sits under all of that. Once the old roof was off, sections of the OSB decking, the chip-board sheathing the shingles are nailed to, were cut out and replaced with new plywood, many of the pieces numbered in spray paint. Black underlayment then went down over the deck before the first shingle.

Out back, the house faces a long open green with a paved path, big oaks and other homes across the way. On a roof with this many hips and edges, the drip edge steers runoff into the gutters during Florida's afternoon storms, and the vents move summer heat out of the attic.