Shingle Roof Replacement in Silver Springs, FL, April 2025

What you are looking at

The first photo looks along a ridge toward the main roof, with tall trees close behind. The ridge carries a ridge vent, a low slotted strip that runs along the peak under rounded cap shingles and helps let warm attic air out. The ridge beyond it is vented the same way and ends in a hip at the right.

The shingle is a blend rather than one flat color. Up close the tabs mix pale silver, mid gray and darker charcoal with a slight blue cast, and the staggered blocks give the roof its layered look. Photos Brehm took from the yard before the job show a hip roof with front gables over the garage and the entry, covered in a much darker charcoal shingle, so the house reads lighter now.

The third photo is a close look at a hip, the sloped outside corner where two roof planes meet. A row of thick cap shingles runs along the hip and meets the ridge caps where the two lines join. The fourth looks down past the roof edge toward the front walk, a gravel bed and the teal stucco walls.

Most of the work sits under the shingles. Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the roof stripped to bare decking and several sheets of new plywood cut in where old decking came out. Gray synthetic underlayment printed with the Brehm logo went over the deck, held down with orange plastic cap nails, and black roofing cement was spread along the valley lines before the last shingles were laid over them.

Photos Brehm took while the underlayment went down show new white drip edge nailed along the eaves. Drip edge is the bent metal strip at the roof edge that helps guide water off the shingles and away from the fascia board. A plumbing vent also got a new pipe boot, sealed around its base.

The last photo looks across the rear slope toward a stand of tall trees. With strong Florida sun and afternoon storms, the edges, ridges and pipe openings are the parts of a shingle roof most worth a close look, and this page walks through each of them.