Siding Contractors in Gorham, ME

Gorham Village holds National Register districts along South Street and around State Street, where the houses are among the oldest in town. Under the town's Historic Preservation Ordinance, the commission's certificate covers tearing down or moving these buildings and putting up new homes, not re-siding one.

We match these houses anyway, because a narrow clapboard reveal and wide corner boards are what make them look right. Painted fiber-cement clapboard holds that look with far less upkeep than wood, and real cedar clapboard is there for owners who want the original material.

Much of Gorham's farmland turned into subdivisions over the last few decades, and many colonials built there in the 1980s and 1990s still wear their original builder-grade vinyl. That vinyl was thin to begin with, and after decades of sun it fades and cracks at the first hard knock.

Covering it would hide the sheathing, so on these houses we recommend taking the old vinyl off. Some went up with little or no housewrap, and an open wall is also the moment to add rigid foam insulation before the new siding goes on.