Replacement is a tear-off and a new assembly

Replacement Starts at the Deck

Shingles are the last line in the spec, not the first.

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A roof replacement on a house in Ocala or Marion County means the old covering comes off, the deck is looked at, and a new assembly goes on. Underlayment, drip edge, flashing, valleys, and penetrations are the roof. The shingles or the metal panels are the layer the street sees. Selling the visible layer and hoping the rest is "included" is how leaks get built into a new job.

This is not an overlay. A second layer hides soft spots and tired flashing until the next storm finds them. The jobs taken here are tear-offs. If someone offers to go over the top, ask about the wood they will never see. The roofing hub separates a repair from this scope. A defined leak on a sound covering is not automatically a full tear-off.

Tear off only what you can dry in

Summer afternoons bring a hard thunderstorm with little warning. Open only the slope you can cover with underlayment, close the penetrations, and stop if the sky says stop. A house left peeled in the middle of a July afternoon is a water problem nobody hired.

Dry-in means the underlayment is down and the holes are closed before the crew leaves that slope. It is not a tarp on open decking. Sheet that is not fastened will sail off in the wind that brings the rain. Plants, screens, and the air conditioner are covered before the first shingle comes off.

The deck is part of the contract

With the covering off, the sheathing is visible. Delaminated plywood, swollen OSB, plank with gaps a fastener cannot bite, and rot at the eaves all show up, including spots a closet ceiling hid. The scope should say how that wood is handled before tear-off, usually as a unit quantity, so a rotten sheet is not an argument on the roof.

New sheathing has to land on framing and be fastened. A patch that floats between rafters becomes a dip. Wide plank gaps may need a solid overlay before shingles or metal. A fastener that misses wood is not a fastener.

When the damage is past the sheathing

A few sheets of bad deck are a roof item. Crumbled rafter tails, a gone fascia, or a valley rafter wet for years are not fixed with another piece of plywood. That is framing, named before the new covering goes down. Construction services is where that work sits when the opening shows more than sheathing.

Underlayment is the water plane

Underlayment is what remains if wind gets under the covering. On a replacement here it is specified as a water barrier. Self-adhered sheet, synthetic, or a combination is written in the scope. Laps shed downhill. Wrinkles get fixed before the covering hides them. Penetrations are worked into the sheet, not cut out and left.

Underlayment under a hot metal panel is a different heat problem than under shingles, which is why the metal roof page is separate. The sheet still has to stay put through a Marion County summer and bridge tear-off day. The shingle assembly picks up starter, hips, and boots once this layer is right.

Drip edge at the eaves and the rakes

Drip edge kicks water off the fascia instead of back into the wood. At the eave, underlayment and metal have to deliver water into the gutter or past the fascia, not behind the board. At the rake, the metal covers the underlayment edge so wind-driven rain does not walk under it. Metal that stops short of the corner, or is face-caulked on after the shingles, is not drip edge.

Flashing is replaced with the roof

Walls, chimneys, and pitch changes leak when the old metal is saved. Step flashing is one piece per course, lapped with the shingle, not one long pan cemented to the stucco. On stucco-over-block houses the old flashing is often buried. The detail cuts a joint and counterflashes it. Sealant on the stucco face fails in the heat.

A headwall, where a lower roof dies into an upper wall, needs flashing that the underlayment and the covering both tuck under. A chimney gets an apron on the downslope side, step flashing up the sides, and counterflashing. A wide chimney sitting on the slope needs a cricket so water is not dumped against the uphill face and forced sideways. Reusing tired counterflashing because it "looks attached" is how the new field shingles get blamed for an old hole. Skylight flashing kits are replaced with the roof. A skylight that is already failed at the glass is a different object than the flashing, and it gets called out instead of being buried.

Valleys have to carry real water and oak litter

A valley takes water from two slopes, then takes leaves. Under live oaks that matters. An open metal valley can be seen and cleaned. A closed valley packs with debris until water runs sideways under the laps. On a house in an oak canopy, open metal is usually the one to argue for. A closed valley can still be right on a cleaner, steeper roof. The scope names which. The metal is lapped the way the water runs.

Penetrations are holes you meant to make

Vents are cut, flashed, and tied into the underlayment. Pipe boots are new. A cracked rubber boot is not reused because the collar still stretches. Lead is a sun-tolerant option with tradeoffs, and the scope says which boot. Terminations that dump moist air onto the roof get checked.

A mast, a dish mount, or a solar array is not a place to freelance holes. The mast is flashed without taking on electrical work. Solar panels come off and go back by the trade allowed to handle them. Abandoned vent holes get decked. A shingle over an open hole is not a deck repair.

Ventilation is checked while the roof is open

A new covering on a sealed, wet attic fails early. Soffit intake and a ridge or other open exhaust are checked during the replacement. Insulation packed into the soffit blocks the intake. A ridge vent with no intake pulls from the nearest leak. A bath fan ending in the attic wets the new deck. That air path is discussed before the color.

The job is permitted where the parcel sits

A roof replacement is permitted. The office follows the parcel, not the mailing address. City of Ocala, unincorporated Marion County, Belleview, and Dunnellon are different counters. Building permits lays out that split. Fastening and underlayment follow the wind design on that permit, the Florida Building Code for the site. This page is not legal advice. Ocala is the home base. The address still decides the jurisdiction.

There is no price per square on this page

A roofing square is a hundred square feet. A dollar figure per square, with no look at the house, is still a guess. Pitch, height, access, layers coming off, deck repairs, valleys, chimneys, and shingle versus metal all change the work inside that square. No price per square is published here. The estimate names the scope for that address.

• Cover plants, screens, and the condenser before tear-off
• Dry in open roof before an afternoon storm
• Write deck repair as a quantity, not a sidewalk argument
• Replace flashing instead of caulking the old metal
• Leave the attic able to breathe, or say why it cannot

What changes the price, still with no figure per square, is explained in roof replacement cost. Which counter you use is in roofing permits. Product approval and why Marion County is not the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone are in Florida roofing permits. Metal and shingles are compared in metal or shingles.