Shingle Roof Replacement in The Villages, FL, November 2024

What you are looking at

The first photo looks down a long slope of the new roof. The shingles are an architectural style, built in two layers so each tab shows a speckled medium gray face over a darker shadow band. Two black pipe vents come up through this slope, and the white gutter runs along the eave above clipped hedges and a palm.

Three round black dome vents sit in a row high on one slope, and they help let warm air out of the attic. Along the hips, cap shingles fold over each line in overlapping steps. On the ridge the cap covers a ridge vent, and its black ribbed edge shows beside the cap in the close view.

The house has solar tube skylights, small clear domes that bring daylight down a reflective tube into the rooms below. Photos Brehm took during the install show the tubes going back in on square metal flashings laid over the new underlayment before the shingles closed in around them. The close view shows one finished dome on its black base.

Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show what the finished roof covers. The old shingles came off down to the wood deck, a crew member blew the deck clean, and gray synthetic underlayment went down with red plastic cap nails. A white drip edge, the metal strip at the roof edge that guides water into the gutter, was nailed along the eaves.

From the roof, the second photo looks over the back yard: a wide lawn, curved beds edged in pavers, a small paver patio and neighboring roofs close by. Where two slopes meet in that frame, the shingles are cut in a clean straight line down the valley.

Every pipe, vent and solar tube is a hole through the roof, so each one needs its own collar or flashing. On a house with this many of them, that care matters through Florida's afternoon downpours and hurricane season.