Shingle Roof Replacement in Williston, FL

What you are looking at

The overhead drone frame shows the whole roof at once. One wing ends in hips that slope down on three sides, the garage wing ends in a gable, and the long middle section ties them together under the main ridge. The brick chimney sits on the back slope, and a few small brown pipe vents poke through the same slope.

Up close the shingle is a brown blend. Dark chocolate tabs mix with lighter tan and caramel ones, so the roof reads as a warm medium brown from the lawn and shows its pattern from above. Architectural shingles are built from two laminated layers, which gives them a staggered, shadowed look instead of flat, even rows.

The ridge vent is the dark slotted strip just under the cap shingles along the ridge. It lets warm attic air out at the highest point of the roof, which helps limit heat build-up in a Florida summer. The close drone frame follows it along the main ridge past the chimney, and the overhead view shows a second run on the garage ridge, with the hips capped in the same brown.

The chimney got its own attention. Photos Brehm took during the job show a small plywood cricket built on the uphill side of the brick. A cricket is a little peaked section that steers water around a chimney instead of letting it collect against the back. The close-up taken from the roof a few days later shows the new brown metal flashing along the base, turned up against the brick.

Photos Brehm took during the tear-off also show the old shingles stripped to bare wood, sections of decking replaced with new plywood sheets, and synthetic underlayment rolled over the deck and fastened with plastic cap nails. Brown metal drip edge finishes the roof edges.

The garage end has brown siding in the gable with a small vent near the peak, set above cream stucco and a wide garage door. Out front, one corner of the hipped wing sits under a large oak hung with Spanish moss, and more oaks ring the lawn around the house.