Roof Replacement in Windermere, FL August 2025
A white two-story home in Windermere with three arched dormers across the front and a covered porch on square white columns. Its shingle roof was replaced in August 2025 with architectural shingles in a gray-tan blend, finished with cap shingles and a ridge vent along the peaks.
Windermere project gallery.
7 photos, August 2025. Tap one for full size.
What we did
- Old shingles removed down to the plywood deck
- Underlayment over the deck, plus ice and water membrane
- Architectural shingles on the main roof, dormers and side wings
- Cap shingles and a ridge vent along the ridges
- Metal roof vents and pipe vents set through the new shingles
At a glance
- Roof
- Gables and three dormers, two stories
- Product
- Architectural shingles, gray-tan blend
- Details
- Ridge vent, metal vents, solar fan
- Setting
- Tree-lined residential street
What you are looking at
From the front walk, the new roof reads as a soft gray-tan over white lap siding. Three dormers with arched, black-framed windows sit along the front slope, and the shingles run right up to their side walls.
Up close, the shingle is a blend, not one flat color. The granules mix cream, tan, pink and brown with gray, so the roof looks warmer in direct sun and grayer under cloud. The color name is not legible on the bundle wrappers, so this page describes the color as it looks.
The long ridge shows the venting. Cap shingles fold over the peak, and a black vent edge runs along both sides of the cap, which is how a ridge vent looks from above. Two small round metal vents sit beside the chimney, and another slope carries a solar attic fan and slim gray pipe vents.
Where a dormer meets the main slope, the courses climb to the wall and stop at the trim. One frame looks along a dormer wall next to a tall arched window. Another frame shows a valley, the inside corner where two slopes meet, carrying water down toward a side wing.
The job file shows the work in order. In the last days of July the old shingles came off down to bare plywood. Pallets of the new architectural shingles waited in the driveway beside galvanized vents and flashing.
The street is quiet and green, with a crepe myrtle in bloom. From the ridge, the neighbors' clay-red tile roofs show beyond the trees, which makes the soft gray-tan of this roof easy to compare. These finished frames were taken in early August 2025.
