Complete ProjectEastern North Carolina

    Brick Colonial Roof Replacement

    A large red brick colonial on the water in Eastern North Carolina came in with an aged dark asphalt roof: weathered slopes still carrying blocks of mismatched patch shingles from earlier repairs, creased and lifted tabs that were chalk-marked during the roof walk, and a brown water stain spreading across a ceiling inside the house. The crew stripped the roof to bare sheathing, dried the whole thing in with synthetic underlayment, and laid new grey architectural shingles, keeping tarps over the shrubs and across the lawn the entire time. The finished roof runs in clean straight courses over the hips and dormers and out toward the bay.

    Photo timestamps run from an October inspection, through interior documentation in November, to the replacement itself over two days in January.

    10 photographsIn the order the work happened

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    1. 01 / 10

      Two-story red brick colonial home with a white-columned wrap-around porch and dormer windows, photographed at dusk with the porch and interior lights glowing warm against a deep blue sky.
      The brick colonial home in Eastern North Carolina at dusk, before the roof replacement began.

    2. 02 / 10

      Waterfront elevation of a red brick home in full sun, showing the original dark asphalt shingle roof with hipped slopes, white gutters and downspouts, with open water and a grass lawn to the left.
      The original dark asphalt shingle roof as found, on the elevation facing the water.

    3. 03 / 10

      Close view up a sloped asphalt shingle roof, showing weathered grey-brown shingles with a large rectangular block of lighter, mismatched replacement shingles patched into the middle of the slope and pine needles collected in the courses.
      Weathering across the old slopes was uneven, with mismatched patch repairs left over from earlier fixes.

    4. 04 / 10

      Close-up of an asphalt shingle roof where a vertical crease and lifted tab in a shingle has been outlined in bright yellow chalk during an inspection.
      Creased and lifted shingles were circled in chalk as the roof was walked and documented.

    5. 05 / 10

      Interior ceiling of a room with crown moulding and recessed lights, showing an irregular brown water stain with smaller drip rings spreading across the painted drywall.
      Inside the home, a brown water stain spreading across a ceiling showed the roof was letting water through.

    6. 06 / 10

      Roof stripped down to bare oriented strand board sheathing marked with chalk lines, with a white painted rake board along the edge, a dark self-adhered membrane strip at the eave and blue capped fasteners driven into the deck.
      With the old shingles torn off, the bare roof deck was exposed and inspected before anything new went down.

    7. 07 / 10

      Side elevation of the red brick home with the roof partly stripped and covered in underlayment, crew members working on the slope above, grey tarps draped over shrubs and a large blue tarp spread across the lawn to catch debris, with water visible at the left.
      Shrubs were tarped and the lawn was covered so tear-off debris never touched the landscaping.

    8. 08 / 10

      Front elevation of the brick colonial with the entire roof covered in white synthetic underlayment, two extension ladders leaning against the eaves, roofers working near the dormers and tarps bunched over the foundation plantings.
      The whole roof was dried in with synthetic underlayment before the new shingles started going on.

    9. 09 / 10

      Newly installed grey architectural asphalt shingles running in clean straight courses across a hipped roof plane, meeting the red brick wall and window of an adjoining wing, with pine trees beyond.
      The finished grey architectural shingles run in clean courses over the hips and up to the brick wing.

    10. 10 / 10

      View from the ridge of the completed grey architectural shingle roof, looking over two shingled dormer peaks and hip ridges to a wide open bay with a long wooden pier and a treed shoreline in soft evening light.
      The completed roof, looking out over the bay and pier from the ridge at the end of the job.

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    Carolina Trophy Roofs works across Eastern North Carolina, and photographs the work as it goes so you can see what went on your roof before it was covered up. Book an inspection, or call and talk it through with us first.

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