Siding installation in Cape Elizabeth, ME means walls built for a fully exposed coast, where Shore Road and Two Lights houses take salt and storms off the ocean. We fit each wall to that weather, from 1880s Shingle Style cottages to newer homes.
This page explains how we re-side and repair houses in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, from the Shingle Style cottages of Delano Park to the newer homes in subdivisions such as Cross Hill and Leighton Farms. We strip the old siding, fix the sheathing and flashing behind it, and hang cedar where the house was shingled and fiber cement where a lap board fits.
Because the ocean side of town is fully exposed, our plan begins with stainless nails, flashed openings and a board chosen for each wall's weather. A repair gets matched to the old wall instead of patched in a new color.
The figure to keep: Cape Elizabeth vinyl sits near $1,050 to $1,300 a square, with cedar shingles near $2,600; both are middle-of-the-range numbers drawn from many quotes, useful for budgeting and not for pricing your house.
Cape Elizabeth siding starts with the exposure because ocean-side salt, wind and storms decide the nails, flashing and board. Cedar on the wrong nails here streaks blue-black below each head.
Cape Elizabeth work sorts into three jobs by a house's era and exposure.
Cedar shingle siding suits the Shingle Style cottages on Shore Road and at Delano Park, a summer colony where John Calvin Stevens designed many houses. One there, built 1886 to 1887, is clad in weathered wood shingles.
The Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau's fastener guide wants Type 316 stainless nails near salt water; we use them on every cedar wall in town.
James Hardie fiber cement is our board for newer homes in subdivisions like Cross Hill, Whaleback Ridge and Leighton Farms. James Hardie calls it noncombustible, though paint on it can char.
Each plank is blind-nailed, 6 inches off the ground and 2 inches off roofs, per James Hardie's Quick Start guide. On the full ocean side, it earns its price over vinyl.
Siding repair fits a sound house with one storm-beaten side: a torn corner, split shingles, a soft sill. We open it, fix the wrap and sheathing, and close it.
Replacement cedar follows the old course lines, stained toward the weathered gray, so the patch is hard to spot from the street.
Every Cape Elizabeth job draws on three services.
Cape Elizabeth's Code Enforcement office takes permits online through GovWell, launched in May 2025. We ask that office whether a re-side needs a permit, especially in the shoreland or flood zone.
With your OK, we open a sill and the corner nearest the water, noting soft wood in the scope.
Work starts once you sign, with a first payment of one third or less.
Each side closes before the next opens, then we walk every wall with you.
Choosing siding installation in Cape Elizabeth, ME comes down to asking each crew which nails, flashing and board go on the wall facing the Atlantic.
The EPA's lead-safe renovation rule covers homes built before 1978: the 1880s cottages and most mid-century houses.
Under 10 MRSA §1487, any Cape Elizabeth job above $3,000 needs a signed written contract, and the down payment tops out at one third.
The Cape Elizabeth houses that need new siding soonest are old wood-walled homes on the ocean side, along Shore Road or near Two Lights. Adding on? Re-side the old walls too.
Cape Elizabeth's zoning mentions siding for Town Center District projects, permitting wood shingles and clapboards and discouraging vinyl and aluminum. Residential districts, Delano Park included, have no design review overlay.
The best season to re-side in Cape Elizabeth is late spring to early fall, since the Forest Products Laboratory says a finish needs 40 to 50 degrees or more as it goes on and for a day after.
Siding installation in Cape Elizabeth averages, per square of wall, $1,050 to $1,300 for vinyl and about $2,600 for cedar shingles, with LP SmartSide at $1,550 to $1,950 and James Hardie at $1,700 to $2,075. Each band blends many local quotes: a budget check, not a price on your walls.
| House size | Vinyl | LP SmartSide | James Hardie | Cedar shingles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small20 to 25 squares | $21,000 to $32,500 | $31,000 to $49,000 | $34,000 to $52,000 | $52,000 to $65,000 |
| Medium25 to 32 squares | $26,000 to $41,500 | $39,000 to $62,500 | $42,500 to $66,500 | $65,000 to $83,500 |
| Large32+ squares | from $33,500 | from $50,000 | from $54,000 | from $83,500 |
Averages from many Cape Elizabeth quotes, never a bid; a square is 10 by 10 feet of wall. Haul-away, tear-off, wrap, flashing and trim are in; soft sheathing found later is not.
After the material, a Cape Elizabeth price moves most with what tear-off exposes: soft sheathing, a rotted sill, failed flashing. Tall cottage walls and deep trim add more.
New siding over the old saves money here when the old layer is flat, dry cement-asbestos shingles or lead-painted wood, because tear-off and disposal drop out. Soft walls still come off.
This page skips a repair price because every Cape Elizabeth repair turns on how many pieces broke, how high they are and the sheathing behind them. We price it after a visit, and a wall damaged end to end is better re-sided.
You start re-siding a Cape Elizabeth house with the free estimate request: we visit, read the walls and send a written price. Nothing comes off before you sign.
