Shingle Roof Replacement in The Villages, FL, February 2026
This hip roof in The Villages traded its rust and tan shingles for a light gray blend in February 2026. Brehm stripped it to the deck and put down Owens Corning Duration shingles. The single-story home has gray stucco walls, a covered front porch and tan block walls around the yard.
The finished roof in The Villages.
Photographed by the Brehm crew after the work was done. Tap any photo to see it full size.
What we did
- Old rust and tan shingles torn off down to the wood deck
- Synthetic underlayment printed with the Brehm name rolled over the deck
- Owens Corning Duration shingles installed on every slope
- Ridge vent cut in along the ridges and covered with cap shingles
- New black pipe flashing and a new black hooded vent set and sealed
At a glance
- Roof
- L-shaped single-story hip roof
- Color
- Owens Corning Duration, light gray blend
- Details
- Ridge vents, round black vents
- Setting
- Walled lot between close neighbors
What you are looking at
Photo 1 looks at the front of the house from above the driveway. Hips run down to every corner, and a smaller hip roof caps the front room at the lower left. To the right, the long hips of the main roof run down toward the covered porch.
Seen straight down in photo 2, the layout is easy to read: an L-shaped hip roof with two short ridges, one across the middle and one over the wing on the right. The slopes in shade read darker than the sunny ones, but it is the same shingle everywhere. The thin dark lines along those short ridges are ridge vents. A ridge vent is a slot cut along the peak and covered with cap shingles, so warm attic air can escape at the highest point. Photos Brehm took during the work show the crew cutting those slots with a saw before the caps went on.
Photos 3 and 4 come in closer. Each hip and ridge is finished with thick cap shingles laid in an overlapping row, and the ridge vent shows as a narrow dark gap beside the cap. The upper slope carries two round black vents, a small clear skylight dome and a slim black pipe vent. Photos Brehm took in June 2025 show two weathered metal dome vents on the old roof.
Photos 5 and 6 were taken standing on the roof. Up close the dimensional shingles show their layers, with pale gray, mid gray and charcoal tabs set in a random pattern, so the surface has depth instead of flat stripes. The close frame shows the tube skylight dome and a plumbing vent pipe with the new shingles fitted around both. Photos Brehm took during the work show a new black flashing boot going onto a plumbing pipe and a black hooded vent being set and sealed.
Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the old shingles stripped to the wood deck, then a light gray synthetic underlayment printed in red with the Brehm name rolled over all of it. Bundle wrappers stacked on that underlayment read Owens Corning Duration.
The house sits on a tight lot with neighbors close on both sides, tan block walls, white vinyl gates and mulch beds with palms. A screened enclosure at the back keeps its own tan panel roof, which was not part of this job. Lighter roof colors generally soak up less of the Florida sun, which helps limit heat build-up in the attic.
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