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Siding Contractors in Yarmouth, ME

As siding contractors in Yarmouth, ME, we re-side everything from the sea captains' houses on Main Street to island homes on Cousins and Littlejohn. Siding replacement is our only trade, and in Yarmouth a re-side often starts with a question for the town before anyone picks up a pry bar.

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Replacing siding in Yarmouth, Maine, the Casco Bay town with a historic village along Main Street and the Royal River, is what this page covers. We remove old siding, repair the sheathing under it, then install new housewrap and flashing beneath the new siding, anything from vinyl and LP SmartSide to fiber cement and cedar.

Yarmouth has five local historic districts, and a siding change seen from the street in one of them goes to the Historic Preservation Committee before the permit issues. Replacing like with like counts as ordinary maintenance and skips that review.

Pooled from many quotes, a square of installed vinyl in Yarmouth averages $1,050 to $1,300, and fiber cement $1,675 to $2,075. Every price we give is written after a look at each wall.

Why Does a Yarmouth Re-Side Start With the Rules?

A Yarmouth re-side starts with the rules because the town reviews visible siding changes in five historic districts, and a permit near the water waits on shoreland approval. We sort out which rules touch your house before the siding replacement is priced, so the written number already accounts for them.

  • Village houses checked against the historic districts first, since a like-for-like clapboard replacement skips committee review

  • Walls facing Broad Cove or the open bay off Cousins Island wrapped and flashed for wind-driven salt rain

  • Permit paperwork delivered to the town early, because Yarmouth says applications wait about 30 days on average for review

  • Historic rules checked first
  • A written price before work
  • Haul-away of old siding included
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What Siding Fits Yarmouth's Older and Newer Houses?

The right siding for a Yarmouth house is the material it was built to wear in the village, and the toughest board the budget allows out on the water. Between those two sit the town's many 1960s to 1980s houses, where vinyl and LP SmartSide make the most sense.

Painted Clapboards on Main Street Captains' Houses

Almost 300 ships were launched from Yarmouth yards between 1790 and 1890, and the captains who sailed them built many of the Greek Revival and Italianate houses that still line Main Street. Many of those houses still wear painted wood clapboards.

On these houses we replace wood clapboards in kind, matching the exposure and profile of the originals, which the town treats as ordinary maintenance. Switching a district house to vinyl or fiber cement goes to the Historic Preservation Committee first, and while its opinion is advisory, the review itself is required.

Yellow schoolhouse in Yarmouth, Maine: Two-story cream and yellow vinyl-sided historic building with white trim, black roof, cupola, and front portico surrounded by lawn and autumn trees.

Vinyl and LP SmartSide on Yarmouth's 1970s Houses

Half of Yarmouth's houses were built in 1973 or earlier, and more than half went up between 1960 and 1989, so capes and garrison colonials from those decades fill many streets beyond the village.

Plain walls and simple trim make those houses the right place for vinyl or LP SmartSide. Vinyl is the lower-cost pick, and LP SmartSide gives a 1970s cape the look of painted wood without the repainting.

Green Colonial Home in Yarmouth, ME: Two-story colonial house with horizontal green siding, white trim, and dark roof, surrounded by lawn, trees, and stone wall.

Fiber Cement for Cousins and Littlejohn Island Homes

Cousins and Littlejohn Islands sit out in Casco Bay with open water around them, so their walls take salt air and wind with nothing to break either one.

We put James Hardie fiber cement on island homes over taped housewrap, with flashing lapped at every window, because an exposed wall cannot afford one weak seam. Many island lots also fall inside the town's shoreland overlay, where a building permit waits on a Shoreland Zoning Permit.

Re-sided colonial home in Yarmouth, ME: White vinyl-sided two-story house with white trim and gray roof beside blue water, manicured lawn with landscaping and stone pathway.
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What Siding Replacement Services Do We Offer in Yarmouth?

Every siding replacement service we offer in Yarmouth treats the wall behind the boards with the same care as the boards themselves.

  • 01In-kind wood clapboards for village houses, and the full range from vinyl to cedar shingles on homes outside the districts
  • 02Tear-off to the sheathing, with rotted boards replaced and the old siding hauled away
  • 03Taped housewrap and flashed windows, with an option to add rigid foam insulation while the walls are open

With so much of Yarmouth built before 1978, we plan for lead paint under the old siding until a test rules it out, and the EPA's lead paint program for renovators controls how that paint is removed. Older asbestos-cement shingles turn up too, and covering them with new siding is a lower-cost path we price alongside a full tear-off.

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How to Replace Siding on a Yarmouth House, Start to Finish

  1. Re-sided colonial in Yarmouth, ME: Two-story white vinyl-sided house with gray roof and cupola. White trim, brick walkway, stone foundation. Two people standing at entrance. Fall foliage surrounding property.

    Check the house and the map

    We measure every wall in squares and check your lot against the historic district map and the shoreland overlay. The written price comes after both.

  2. White Colonial Home in Yarmouth, Maine: Two-story white house with white trim and cupola, situated on grassy coastal property with stone foundation and evergreen trees visible in background.

    File early, then re-side

    Where a permit is needed, we deliver the application to Yarmouth Code Enforcement in person or by mail, since the town does not accept it by email. Once the permit issues, we strip the old siding a side at a time, wrapping and flashing each side before its new boards go up.

  3. Re-sided colonial home in Yarmouth, ME: Two-story white clapboard house with gray roof, white trim, and stone foundation. Couple standing at gate viewing property in autumn.

    Walk the new siding with us

    Every side gets a look together, from the street-facing clapboards to the back corners, and any spot you want revisited goes on a short list.

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White siding replacement in Yarmouth, ME: Two people standing in front of a white single-story building with new horizontal siding, white trim, and gabled roof. Brick walkway and flowering shrubs visible in front.

How Do You Choose Siding Contractors in Yarmouth, ME?

You choose siding contractors in Yarmouth, ME by how well they know the town's rules before they talk about color. Ask whether your house sits in one of the five historic districts, and whether an in-kind replacement would keep the job out of committee review.

A contractor new to Yarmouth may not know that permit applications are dropped off or mailed, or that the town quotes about 30 days before review. Those details decide whether your re-side starts in May or slides into July.

Then ask about the wall under the boards. On a captains' house or a 1970s cape, the tear-off sets the real cost, so we list sheathing repair on its own line and put the whole siding replacement price in writing before work begins.

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Who in Yarmouth Needs New Siding, Where and When?

White Colonial Home in Yarmouth, Maine: Two-story white vinyl-sided colonial with black shutters, white trim, brick chimney, gabled roof, white picket fence, surrounded by mature trees and lawn with stone wall border and water visible in distance.

  1. Who in Yarmouth usually needs new siding?

    The Yarmouth homeowners who usually need new siding own village houses with clapboards that no longer hold paint, or 1970s and 1980s houses whose original siding is worn out. Island owners call too, often after a first winter shows them where water gets in.

  2. Where on a Yarmouth house does the work start?

    The work on a Yarmouth house starts on the walls facing the water or the street, because those are the walls the weather and the town both watch. On one of the town's Local Historic Landmarks every side counts, since landmarks are reviewed on all four walls.

  3. When should a Yarmouth siding job begin?

    A Yarmouth siding job should begin on paper in late winter, so the permit wait is over by the time May weather lets housewrap tape stick. The village fills for the Clam Festival on the third weekend of July, and we plan any Main Street staging around that weekend.

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How Much Is Siding Replacement in Yarmouth?

Siding replacement in Yarmouth averages $1,050 to $1,300 a square for installed vinyl, while James Hardie fiber cement runs $1,675 to $2,075 a square. LP SmartSide lands at $1,550 to $1,950, and these figures average many siding quotes together, which makes them a yardstick for where a house might fall rather than a price for yours.

House sizeWall areaVinylLP SmartSideJames Hardie
Small20 to 25 squares$21,000 to $32,500$31,000 to $48,500$33,500 to $52,000
Medium25 to 32 squares$26,000 to $41,500$39,000 to $62,500$42,000 to $66,500
Large32+ squaresfrom $33,000from $50,000from $54,000

Each band multiplies Yarmouth's per-square averages by the wall area for that house size. Removal and haul-away of the old siding are built in, as are new housewrap and the flashing at every opening. Trim counts too, though rotted sheathing only gets a price after the boards come off.

How much does cedar shingle siding run in Yarmouth?

Cedar shingle siding in Yarmouth runs about $2,600 per installed square, so a medium house falls at roughly $65,000 to $83,000. On a village house that wore shingles from the start, new cedar counts as in-kind and stays out of committee review.

Does historic review change the price in Yarmouth?

Historic review rarely changes the per-square price in Yarmouth, though hand-matching old clapboard profiles and wide trim does. A captains' house with deep cornices and many windows tends to land near the top of the band for that reason.

Is siding over the old ever right in Yarmouth?

Siding over the old is the lower-cost choice in Yarmouth when the existing siding contains asbestos or sits over lead paint, and the wall behind it is sound. In a historic district that cover-up is still a visible change, so it goes before the committee first.

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When Can We Walk Your Yarmouth House With You?

We walk your Yarmouth house at a time you pick once the free estimate request comes in. The written price follows that visit, and no permit gets filed or board removed until you have gone over that price line by line.

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