Siding installation in Brunswick, ME covers two kinds of houses: clapboard homes in the Village Review Overlay, where Androscoggin sawmills made wood clapboards the standard, and Brunswick's many 1980s and newer houses. We read each wall before naming a material.
This page is about siding installation in Brunswick, Maine: old siding removed or covered, rot and flashing fixed, and cedar shingles, fiber cement, LP SmartSide or vinyl installed with new trim. It covers the six Village Review Overlay neighborhoods, the 1980s houses and the newer homes alike.
Inside the overlay, the Village Review Board prefers original material and names Hardie fiber cement among preferred substitutes, so sound clapboards stay in place under new siding, as its guidelines ask. Outside it, the budget and the house decide.
The figure to keep: across many Brunswick quotes, vinyl comes to about $1,025 to $1,300 per square and cedar shingles about $2,600, a planning average rather than a price.
Brunswick favors keeping old clapboards because the Village Review Board always prefers original material and wants sound siding left intact and overlaid. A failing wall gets photographed for the Pejepscot Historical Society first, as a guideline asks.
The overlay sets terms for village houses; budget leads elsewhere.
The guidelines note wood shingles on some late 19th and early 20th century overlay buildings. Where a house was shingled, cedar shingle siding in the same pattern keeps the original material the Board prefers.
We copy the old courses, fancy-cut rows included, and natural cedar silvers with weather.
The overlay guidelines list Hardie fiber cement among preferred substitutes and reject embossed wood-grain boards. So we use smooth James Hardie fiber cement there, sized to the old clapboards.
Village clapboards typically meet window tops and bottoms through small shifts in exposure, as the guidelines show on a Federal Street house. We lay out courses that way.
About 17 percent of Brunswick homes date to the 1980s and 14 percent to 2000 through 2009. For those, vinyl siding replacement is our usual pick and the lowest price per square.
We nail vinyl loose so it can move with the seasons. The overlay guidelines call vinyl not preferred but possibly acceptable, so we ask the town first.
Brunswick jobs combine these three.
Brunswick's permits page calls for a permit when a building is altered or repaired; online applications are generally processed in 7 to 10 business days. We file what your re-side needs, Brunswick Landing permissions included.
With your permission we pull a few boards near a sill, then check the overlay map.
The scope names siding, courses and trim in the signed written contract 10 MRSA §1487 requires above $3,000, with the first payment held to a third.
No wall opens until the last is closed, and we finish with a walk around the house.
You choose siding installation in Brunswick, ME by first asking whether the house sits in the Village Review Overlay, where a Certificate of Appropriateness comes before permits and work. Replacement in identical styles and materials needs no review, while major changes go to the Board.
Then ask about paint: one in five Brunswick homes was built in 1939 or earlier, and EPA lead-safe rules cover painted clapboards on any house older than 1978.
Finally, get the course layout in writing, proof the crew measured before ordering.
Brunswick owners who need a Certificate of Appropriateness live in the overlay and plan an exterior alteration beyond identical replacement. The town decides whether a new material is minor or major, so we ask early.
Brunswick judges whether siding is visible from four to six feet up on any public way or street, in all seasons, everywhere in the overlay.
A Brunswick re-side should start its paperwork a month or more ahead, since the Village Review Board meets the third Tuesday and wants applications 14 days before. Siding goes on best from late spring through fall.
Siding installation in Brunswick costs roughly $1,025 to $1,300 a square for vinyl, $1,550 to $1,950 for LP SmartSide, $1,675 to $2,075 for James Hardie and about $2,600 for cedar shingles. Each is the typical spread of many Brunswick quotes, a budget check and not a bid.
| House size | Vinyl | LP SmartSide | James Hardie | Cedar shingles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small20 to 25 squares | $20,500 to $32,500 | $31,000 to $48,500 | $33,500 to $52,000 | $52,000 to $65,000 |
| Medium25 to 32 squares | $26,000 to $41,500 | $39,000 to $62,000 | $42,000 to $66,500 | $65,000 to $83,000 |
| Large32+ squares | from $33,000 | from $50,000 | from $54,000 | from $83,000 |
Typical installed totals for Brunswick across many quotes, never a quote, with tear-off, haul-away, housewrap, trim and flashing included. Damage behind old siding can push a job past its row.
The Brunswick costs that climb once old siding is off are rotted sheathing, failed flashing and damaged framing, after the material itself. Tall gables, a third story and heavy trim add more.
New siding can go over the old in Brunswick, and the overlay guidelines ask for it when original material is in good repair. It also spares a tear-off over asbestos-cement or lead-painted siding, but never over a soft wall.
Brunswick siding repairs have no set price because the number of pieces, the wall height, hidden rot and the effort of matching old clapboard change every job. We price each repair on site, and say when a new wall beats a patch.
Your next step for Brunswick siding is the free estimate request, then a visit to read the walls. Nothing starts before you sign the written price.
