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Siding Contractors in Standish, ME

Hiring siding contractors in Standish, ME usually means one of two houses: a Sebago Lake camp on its way to becoming a year-round home, or an older farmhouse whose paint stopped holding long ago. Our siding replacement work here starts with the wall itself, since a camp wall often has no housewrap and no flashing behind the boards.

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This page is about siding replacement in Standish, Maine, the Sebago Lake town where summer camps are turning into year-round homes and older farmhouses line the village roads. In a Standish re-side the old siding comes off first, so the wall behind it can be rebuilt and wrapped before any new material goes up, from vinyl to cedar shingles.

The job matters most on converted camps, whose walls often have no water barrier at all, and on lots that drain toward the lake that supplies Portland's drinking water. We do nothing but siding, and every price is in writing before the first board comes off.

Standish averages about $1,050 to $1,300 per square for vinyl across many siding quotes.

Why Do Standish Homeowners Call Us for New Siding?

Standish homeowners call us for new siding because the wall on a lake camp or an old farmhouse needs as much attention as the boards nailed to it. We open that wall and rebuild what is soft before any siding replacement goes on, and siding is the only work we take.

  • Camp walls brought up to year-round use with the housewrap and window flashing they were built without

  • Tarps laid under every stripped wall on lots that slope down toward Sebago Lake

  • Narrow clapboard profiles that keep the village houses at Standish Corner true to their street

  • Camp walls checked before pricing
  • Town permit pulled where needed
  • Old siding hauled off the lot
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What would new siding cost on your Standish house?

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Which Siding Holds Up Best on Standish Homes?

The siding that holds up best on Standish homes is LP SmartSide or James Hardie fiber cement, because roof snow piles against the lower courses all winter and cold vinyl can crack when it takes a hit. Vinyl still earns a place on a sheltered wall or a tight budget.

Re-Siding a Sebago Lake Camp for Year-Round Living

A camp built for July was often sided with plywood panels or board and batten nailed straight to the studs, with no housewrap and nothing over the window heads. That was fine for a summer place, and it is the first thing to change once the camp becomes a house you heat through February.

We take the old panels off and add sheathing where the studs were bare. Then the wall gets wrapped and every opening flashed before LP SmartSide board and batten goes up, which keeps the camp look on a wall that finally sheds water.

Modern lake house in Standish, ME: Black vertical siding with gold trim and windows, gray shingled roof, screened porch, situated on grassy lakefront lot surrounded by evergreen trees.

Adding Insulation While a Standish Wall Is Open

Once the old siding is off a Standish camp, the wall is open from the outside, and that is the least costly moment the house will ever give you to add insulation. A layer of rigid foam over the sheathing cuts the cold that travels through the studs, which counts for a lot on thin camp walls in a deep-frost winter.

The foam makes the wall thicker, so we extend the window and door jambs to meet it and flash them again at the new face. The insulation shows up as its own line on the written price, so you can decide on it separately.

Re-sided farmhouse in Standish, ME: Two-story house with light blue fiber cement board siding, tan trim, and dark gray asphalt shingle roof set among pine trees.

Clapboards for Standish Corner and Steep Falls

The village houses at Standish Corner and Steep Falls sit closer to the road than the lake houses do, and the Marrett House at the Corner dates to about 1789. Homes in that company look right in narrow painted clapboards with wide corner boards, and wide vinyl on one of them changes the feel of the whole street.

Smooth fiber-cement clapboard gives these houses the old profile without a repaint every few summers. Houses this old were painted long before 1978, so we handle the old layers as lead paint until a test says otherwise, the way the EPA's renovation rules for lead expect.

Re-sided colonial in Standish, ME: White vinyl-sided two-story house with black roof and brick chimney on landscaped lawn near pine trees and lake, attached garage visible.
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What Siding Replacement Services Do We Offer in Standish?

Our siding replacement work in Standish runs from the first old board pried loose to the last nail in the new trim.

  • 01Old camp panels and siding taken off, with the rotted sills and soft sheathing behind them rebuilt first
  • 02Taped wrap and flashing for camp walls that never had either, and foam board on request while the wall stands open
  • 03Board-and-batten or lap siding in the material that suits the camp or farmhouse, with matching trim and the old material carted away

Sebago Lake supplies Portland's drinking water, and Standish lots near its shore fall under Maine's shoreland zoning rules. On those lots we keep staging to open ground and catch the old nails and paint chips on tarps before they can reach the slope toward the water.

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What Are the Three Steps of a Standish Re-Side?

  1. White Cape Cod in Standish, ME: Two people standing in yard facing white-sided house with dark roof, stone foundation, and gabled peak window.

    Look at the camp or house together

    We measure each wall in squares and check the sills nearest the ground, where camp walls tend to rot first. You get a written price with the insulation option listed on a line of its own.

  2. White Colonial Home in Standish, ME: Two-story white painted wood-sided colonial house with black-shuttered windows, gray shingled roof, brick chimney, covered front porch, and stone foundation walls, set on green lawn with water visible in background.

    Clear it with the town, then work one wall at a time

    Where the job needs a permit, we pull it through the Town of Standish before tear-off. Then we strip one wall at a time and close each one with wrap and new siding before opening the next.

  3. Re-sided home in Standish, ME: Two men stand in front of a single-story house with cream-colored vinyl siding, white trim, and dark roof. Rural setting with trees and water visible in background.

    Finish with a walkaround

    We walk the finished house with you, lake side included, and note anything you want looked at again. We cart the old siding off the property ourselves.

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Re-sided cottage in Standish, ME: Two people walk toward a gray-sided cottage with white trim and dark roof beside a lake surrounded by evergreen trees.

How Do You Choose Siding Contractors in Standish, ME?

You choose siding contractors in Standish, ME by asking what they plan for the wall itself, especially on a camp that has never had housewrap. A price that only covers new boards on that kind of wall leaves out the part that keeps winter outside.

Ask how they keep tear-off debris off a lot that drains toward Sebago Lake, and how they stage on a slope without cutting trees near the water. Ask as well whether insulation can go on while the wall is open, and what that adds to the siding replacement.

Finally, find out what goes on paper, and when. We put the price on paper before work starts and finish with a walk around the house beside you, lake side and all.

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Who Calls About Siding in Standish, Where and When?

Re-sided colonial in Standish, ME: Two-story house with green cedar shake siding, white trim, and dark roof beside a lake with fall foliage and evergreens.

  1. Who in Standish usually needs new siding?

    The Standish homeowners who usually need new siding are turning a lake camp into a year-round house, or own a farmhouse whose paint no longer holds. Owners of ranches and colonials on wooded lots call us too, once their first vinyl has gone chalky and brittle.

  2. Where in Standish do we work?

    We work all over Standish, from camps on the Sebago Lake shore to the village houses at Standish Corner and Steep Falls. The big rural lots in between make staging easy, while the lake lots take more planning.

  3. When is the best time for a Standish siding job?

    The best time for a Standish siding job is late spring through fall, once the frost is out of the ground and staging sits level. A September start works well at a camp, after the lake quiets down and before the first hard freeze.

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How Much Does New Siding Cost in Standish?

For new siding in Standish, the average cost lands at $1,050 to $1,300 a square in vinyl and $1,550 to $1,950 a square in LP SmartSide, installed. These numbers come from averaging a broad run of siding quotes in the area, so they show where a house tends to land, and your own price comes from the walls we measure.

House sizeWall areaVinylLP SmartSideJames Hardie
Small20 to 25 squares$21,000 to $32,500$31,000 to $49,000$34,000 to $52,000
Medium25 to 32 squares$26,000 to $41,500$39,000 to $62,500$42,000 to $66,500
Large32+ squaresfrom $33,500from $50,000from $54,000

Per-square installed averages for Standish, with James Hardie at about $1,700 to $2,075 a square. The bands include tear-off and haul-away with new housewrap and flashing, while rot repair and any added insulation sit outside them until the wall is open.

How much more do cedar shingles run in Standish?

In Standish, cedar shingles run about $2,600 a square, which brings a medium-sized home to roughly $65,000 to $83,000. A lake camp wears them well, but they top the price list and ask for more upkeep than any other material we hang.

Does adding insulation change a Standish siding price?

Adding insulation does change a Standish siding price, since the foam and the jamb extensions both add material and labor. It appears as a separate line, so you can price the wall with it and without it.

When does siding over the old siding make sense in Standish?

Siding over the old makes sense in Standish on a solid wall whose outer layer is asbestos shingle or lead-painted boards, because leaving that layer in place costs less than taking it off. On a camp that never had housewrap, we lean toward a full tear-off instead, because covering the old panels would seal in the missing water barrier.

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Not Sure How to Get a Siding Price in Standish?

Getting a siding price in Standish starts with the free estimate request on this page. A visit follows, where we measure each wall and test the sills by hand, and the written number reaches you before any date is booked.

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