Shingle Roof Replacement in The Villages, FL, February 2026

What you are looking at

The first drone frame looks down across the house from the side. The main roof is a long gable, with its ridge running down the middle of the frame and the siding end wall at the bottom edge. Two wings branch off it. On the left, a smaller gable covers the glass-walled room, which opens onto a small patio with a black railing, and on the right the garage wing reaches toward the street. Neighbors sit close on both sides, and the lawns were winter tan.

Photo 2 comes around to the street side, where the garage wing meets the main roof in a valley. The same shingle reads two ways here: sandy tan on the slope that catches the sun and a deeper gray-brown on the shaded main roof behind it. Past the eaves are the neighbors' roofs in brown and blue-gray, which makes it easy to see where this job stops.

Photo 3 follows the garage wing ridge out to its gable end. A ridge vent runs under the rounded cap shingles, and its thin vented edges show along both sides of the caps. That is where warm attic air gets out. Two black hooded vents and a slim black pipe vent sit near the top of the wing, with the round solar fan on the main roof just beyond.

The close frame in photo 4 was taken on the roof. It shows a closed valley, the inside corner where two slopes meet, with shingles covering the joint so no metal shows, and a black hooded vent tucked just under the ridge cap. At this distance the dimensional shingles show their mix of tan, taupe, pale gray and darker brown tabs.

Photo 5 is a close look at the solar attic fan, a round fan with a small solar panel on its lid. The fan was already on the old roof in Brehm's January photos, and it sits on the bare deck in the tear-off photos. Now the new shingles are laid snug around its base. Beyond it on the garage wing are another black hooded vent and a pipe vent. Together with the ridge vents, the fan helps limit heat build-up in the attic under the Florida sun.

Photos Brehm took in January show the roof before: gray shingles, galvanized metal vents, a rusted pipe vent and a torn cap shingle. Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the old layer stripped to the wood deck, then a dark gray underlayment over the whole deck with red chalk lines for the shingle courses. New white drip edge went on along the eaves, and bundle wrappers on the roof read Owens Corning Duration. The white gutters were already on the house in January and stayed in place.