Shingle Roof Replacement in Ocala, FL, April 2025

What you are looking at

The first photo is taken standing on the roof, looking straight up a hip toward the peak. A hip is the outside corner of a roof, the sloping line where two planes come together, and here it is covered with a row of thicker, folded cap shingles that climbs all the way to the top. Off to the left, a vent pipe and a small metal vent sit on the plane under a clear blue sky.

The shingles are architectural, which means each one is built up in layers so the tabs show in different sizes and shades. Up close the blend mixes tan, rust, copper and dark brown. Across a whole plane it reads as one warm brown, and on a plane turned away from the sun the same shingles look a darker gray-brown.

This roof is not one simple shape. The view across the main roof shows several hip sections meeting at different angles, with capped hips and ridges tying them together. Past the edge, green pasture runs out to dark board fences and a line of trees on the far side.

Along one short ridge, a ridge vent sits under the cap shingles, so all that shows is a slightly raised strip with a curved end. Photos Brehm took during the job show a vent slot cut along a ridge and a black ridge vent roll nailed down before the caps went on. A ridge vent gives warm attic air a way out at the top of the roof, which helps limit heat build-up in a Florida attic. Each vent pipe also got new brown flashing with a screened cap where it comes through the shingles, and Brehm's photos also show new exhaust vent hoods nailed in on their own flanges as the shingles went on.

The tear-off photos Brehm took show what sits under the new shingles. The old roof came off down to the wood deck, the whole deck was covered in white synthetic underlayment held with plastic cap nails, and white metal drip edge was nailed along the edges. Those photos also show the valleys, where two planes meet on an inside corner: shingles from one plane run through, and a band of black roof cement is troweled down the valley line before the other side is cut in.

The last photo looks past the stucco chimney, with its metal cap and round vent, out over the paddocks. The frame of a screened enclosure runs along the left side, and beyond the fence a horse grazes in a paddock lined with dark boards.