Shingle Roof Replacement in Newberry, FL, September 2024

What you are looking at

The first photo looks across the back of the house, where a hipped wing meets the main roof in a shingled valley. Beyond the gutter line sit a wood privacy fence, a large shrub and an open field of grass. The new shingles mix light and dark gray tabs, so the roof reads as a soft medium gray from the yard and shows its pattern up close.

From the street the shape is easier to follow: a hip over the garage on the left, a tall gable faced in gray shake siding and trimmed in white, the main hip behind it and a smaller gable on the right. The front was photographed under a heavy, cloudy sky.

Photos Brehm took on an August visit show the roof this one replaced: flat brown three-tab shingles, a galvanized hooded vent and long, low vents near the peaks. Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show those shingles coming off down to the wood deck, gray synthetic underlayment rolled over the whole deck and held with red plastic cap nails, and the CertainTeed Landmark wrappers on the bundles. The tear-off and the finished roof were photographed on the same day.

Thick cap shingles overlap along every hip and climb to each peak, and one photo follows a row of them up to the front gable. Black metal off-ridge vents sit low-profile just below the peaks. An off-ridge vent lets warm attic air escape through a slot in the deck just below the top of the roof, which helps limit heat build-up in the attic.

Two vent pipes with black caps come through the roof on new black boots. Photos Brehm took while the shingles went on show the pipe flashings bedded in black roofing cement before the shingles were fitted around them, and black hooded exhaust vents set the same way.

Open ground stretches out behind the fence. On a hip roof, the valleys, the hip caps and the flashings around each pipe are the places water most often tries to get in, and the photos here show the valleys and hip caps up close.