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Siding Contractors in South Portland, ME

The work of siding contractors in South Portland, ME starts under the old siding, because the city's wartime capes often hide two or three layers before anyone reaches the sheathing. Our siding replacement deals with every one of those layers, removing or covering each as the rules and the wall allow, so the new boards on your cape or Willard Beach cottage sit flat and shed water.

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This page covers siding replacement in South Portland, Maine, where wartime capes built for the shipyard crews sit a few blocks from older beach cottages. Siding Contractors Portland strips worn siding down to the sheathing and repairs any rot before new boards go up over fresh housewrap and flashing.

The difference here is in the layers. Some South Portland houses carry asbestos-cement shingles under later siding, and Maine lets intact shingles like these stay in place under a new wall, which can save a homeowner the cost of regulated removal.

Near Willard Beach and the Cape Elizabeth line, salt air makes fiber cement worth its price. Averaged across many siding quotes, the city runs from about $1,000 per square for vinyl up to about $2,525 per square for cedar shingles, installed.

Why Do South Portland Owners Hire a Siding-Only Crew?

South Portland owners hire a siding-only crew because a re-side here turns on what the old layers are hiding. Reading those layers and fixing what sits behind them is the whole of our work.

  • Later vinyl layers stripped from wartime capes, so the new siding lies flat and the window flashing ties into fresh wrap

  • Fiber cement and stainless nails on the salt side of houses near Willard Beach and the Cape Elizabeth line

  • Staging that goes up quickly on South Portland's flat, open lots, which leave room for the dumpster beside the house

  • Siding replacement, nothing else
  • Price in writing first
  • Old layers hauled off
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What Is the Best Siding Material for South Portland Homes?

The best siding material for most South Portland homes is LP SmartSide on the inland capes and ranches, and James Hardie fiber cement on any wall that catches salt spray. Vinyl still earns a place when the budget leads, and it looks clean on a simple postwar house.

LP SmartSide on South Portland's Shipyard-Era Capes

Whole streets of South Portland capes went up in a hurry for the wartime shipyard crews, and their walls tend to show it once the siding comes off. We expect light framing and corners a little out of square, so we shim and straighten as we go instead of letting new boards follow every wave.

LP SmartSide suits these houses because it arrives primed and reads as painted wood clapboard from the sidewalk. It also takes a knock from a ball or a mower better than vinyl does.

Re-sided Cape Cod in South Portland, ME: Tan and gray sided house with white trim and dark roof, surrounded by landscaping and evergreen trees.

Covering Asbestos Shingles Instead of Removing Them

Some South Portland capes still wear their original asbestos-cement shingles, the stiff gray or white ones with a wavy bottom edge, either bare or under later vinyl. The Maine DEP asbestos program allows siding like this to stay in place and be covered when it is in good condition, while removing more than a few square feet is regulated work for asbestos professionals.

When the shingles are intact and the wall shows no soft spots, we cover them: the job costs less and no fibers go into your yard. We also give you a note of which walls hold them, because Maine requires asbestos materials to be disclosed when a house is sold.

White-sided home in South Portland, Maine: Single-story white house with dormer, dark shingle roof, white trim, stone foundation, landscaped front with lawn and evergreens, open field and trees visible beyond.

Fiber Cement for Willard Beach and Ferry Village Cottages

Many cottages around Willard Beach and Ferry Village started as summer places and were winterized later, often in a hurry. Tear-off is where we learn whether a cottage has real sheathing under its siding or only boards with gaps between them.

On these salt-facing walls we recommend James Hardie fiber cement over fresh wrap, hung with stainless fasteners so rust never streaks down the boards. While the wall is open, a layer of rigid foam is an affordable way to make a cottage built for July feel warmer in January.

Blue siding cottage in South Portland, ME: Single-story house with light blue horizontal siding, white trim, white entry door with gable, four windows, gray shingled roof, gravel driveway, flowering shrubs, stone border, evergreen trees nearby.
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What Siding Services Do We Offer in South Portland?

We offer siding replacement in South Portland as one complete job, and each service below appears on the written price before work starts.

  • 01Tear-off of the old layers, with rot and framing damage repaired before anything new goes up
  • 02New housewrap and window flashing, plus trim and corner boards sized to the house
  • 03Vinyl or LP SmartSide for a budget-minded cape and James Hardie fiber cement or cedar shingles near the water, with every scrap of old siding hauled off

A South Portland house built before 1978 often has lead paint somewhere under its newer layers, on the first clapboards or the trim. Under the EPA's lead-safe renovation rules, dust from that paint has to be contained as the boards come off, and we plan the tear-off around that.

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How Does Our Siding Process Work in South Portland?

  1. White Cape Cod in South Portland, ME: Couple standing on lawn viewing white-sided house with white trim, dormered roof with asphalt shingles and brick chimney.

    Count the layers with you

    We measure every wall of your South Portland house in squares and check how many layers sit under the current siding before writing up a price.

  2. White cottage with red trim in South Portland, Maine: Single-story white-sided house with red window and door trim, dark gray roof, brick chimney, set on grass with stone walls and evergreen trees, ocean visible in distance.

    Strip the old, build the new

    Once the City of South Portland code enforcement office has issued any permit the job needs, we work one section at a time, repairing and wrapping each wall before the new boards go on.

  3. Re-sided Cape Cod in South Portland, ME: Light blue horizontal vinyl siding with white trim and gabled roof. Two people stand in the yard viewing the front of the house surrounded by landscaping and stone wall.

    Walk the finished house together

    With the last trim piece on, we circle the house with you, checking each corner and window before the dumpster leaves.

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Gray Siding Replacement in South Portland: Two men examine the side of a house with horizontal gray siding, white-trimmed windows, and stone foundation, with lawn and evergreen trees visible.

How to Choose Siding Contractors in South Portland, ME

The way to choose siding contractors in South Portland, ME is to ask how many layers your house is wearing and listen to what they plan to do about them. On a wartime cape that answer changes the labor, and sometimes it changes the whole plan.

Ask directly about asbestos shingles. A contractor who plans to rip them off without mentioning the state rules, or who never raises covering them, has not looked closely at your house.

Then compare what each bid actually includes. Ours spells out the tear-off and how rot gets repaired before work starts, and we finish by walking the whole house with you.

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Who Needs New Siding in South Portland, Where and When?

Beachfront cottage with new siding in South Portland, Maine: Yellow shingle-sided cottage with white trim and peaked roof beside green lawn, white picket fence, flowering shrubs, and ocean view.

  1. Which South Portland houses need new siding most often?

    The South Portland houses that need new siding most often are postwar capes with faded vinyl over older shingles, and cottages where the winterizing never reached the walls. New buyers call too, once the inspection report flags the siding.

  2. Where does siding fail first in South Portland?

    Siding fails first in South Portland on walls facing the harbor or the open water past Willard Beach, where wind pushes rain behind the boards. Inland around Meetinghouse Hill, the shaded north walls that never quite dry out are usually the weak side.

  3. When is the right season for a South Portland re-side?

    The right season for a South Portland re-side runs from spring thaw into late fall, when wrap tape bonds and painted boards can dry. Booking the visit in winter lets the written price and the permit be ready by the time the ground thaws.

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How Much Does It Cost to Re-Side a House in South Portland?

The cost to re-side a house in South Portland averages $1,500 to $1,875 per square for LP SmartSide, the board we recommend for most of the city's capes, and $1,000 to $1,250 per square for vinyl. Read those as averages pulled from many siding quotes around Casco Bay, useful for placing a cape or cottage in a band long before a tape measure comes out.

House sizeWall areaVinylLP SmartSideJames Hardie
Small20 to 25 squares$20,000 to $31,500$30,000 to $47,000$32,500 to $50,500
Medium25 to 32 squares$25,000 to $40,000$37,500 to $60,500$41,000 to $64,500
Large32+ squaresfrom $32,000from $48,500from $52,500

Installed averages for South Portland, per square of wall (one square is 100 square feet). Each figure includes tearing off the old siding, new housewrap and flashing, trim, and hauling the debris away, while rotted sheathing is added once tear-off shows how much there is.

What do cedar shingles cost in South Portland?

Cedar shingles in South Portland average about $2,525 per square installed, and on a medium house that adds up to somewhere between $63,000 and $80,500. We suggest them for the older cottages near the water, since most postwar capes get better value from LP SmartSide.

Why do some South Portland re-sides land at the high end?

A South Portland re-side lands at the high end when there are several layers to strip and rotted sheathing behind them. Two-story houses in the older Knightville blocks also take more staging than a story-and-a-half cape.

Is covering the old siding cheaper in South Portland?

Covering the old siding is cheaper in South Portland when the bottom layer is intact asbestos-cement and the wall behind it is dry, because it skips regulated removal and disposal. We price the cover-over and the full tear-off side by side whenever a house qualifies.

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How Do You Get a Siding Price for a South Portland House?

A siding price for a South Portland house starts with the free estimate request, and then we set a time to look at your walls together. The number comes to you in writing to read at your own pace, and we put nothing on the calendar until you give the word.

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