Shingle Roof Replacement in Reddick, FL

What you are looking at

The drone photos show the shape of the roof best. A long main ridge runs the length of the house, and a shorter wing branches off toward the front, so from straight above the roof reads as a T. The screened porch sits under the new shingles of that front wing. An open carport on one side has a low white metal roof, which stayed in place, and its weathered, leaf-streaked panels make an easy comparison with the new shingles beside it.

Up close the shingle mixes green, slate blue, gray, charcoal and tan in a staggered pattern. From drone height the colors settle into a muted green-gray that sits comfortably among the oaks.

The work began with a full tear-off of the old gray shingles. Once the deck was bare, the crew cut out the worn sections of the original deck panels and fit new plywood sheets in their place; each new sheet is numbered in marker in the photos. A black self-adhered underlayment then went over the whole deck. Self-adhered means it sticks to the wood like tape once its backing film is peeled away, and the photos show that film coming off as the rolls go down.

Along the peak, a ridge vent runs under the cap shingles. It is a vented strip that lets hot attic air out at the highest point of the roof, and a second run sits on the ridge of the front wing. Photos from a November visit show the old roof had square metal vents; the new roof has low black hooded vents and short black vent pipes. The tall flue pipe, bare galvanized metal during tear-off, is black in the finished photos and meets the roof at a black collar.

Where the shingles meet the metal carport roof, a white metal strip covers the joint. The detached concrete block garage on the lot was re-shingled in the same blend. It is not in the published set, but the job photos show its finished roof and new wood fitted under its gable overhang.

The finished roof was photographed in late March, first from the ridge in evening light and then by drone, with fresh spring leaves on the oaks and Spanish moss hanging over the yard. In this part of Florida a roof spends long summers under hard sun and afternoon storms, so the underlayment and the ridge ventilation matter as much as the shingles you can see.