Siding installation in Kittery, ME covers Maine's oldest town: colonial and Federal houses at Kittery Point, close-set Foreside homes and newer houses inland. With heavy salt exposure, the flashing and nails behind the siding count as much as the boards.
This page covers siding installation in Kittery, Maine: stripping old siding, fixing the sheathing and flashing behind it, and installing cedar shingles, James Hardie fiber cement, LP SmartSide or vinyl. It is for owners at Kittery Point, on the Foreside and in the newer neighborhoods inland.
Southern Maine Siding treats salt air as the main threat to a Kittery wall, so every window and door gets flashed and every course gets corrosion-resistant nails. We confirm the town's permit rules before work starts.
The figure to keep: Kittery vinyl averages $975 to $1,200 per square and cedar shingles about $2,400, both averages across many quotes rather than a price for your walls.
A Kittery wall needs more than new siding because salt air and wind-driven rain work into any gap at a window head, corner or roof line. We fix the wrap and flashing behind first.
Each part of Kittery gets its own siding.
Cedar shingle siding is our choice for Kittery Point's older houses, set close on small lots above the water. Left natural, the shingles weather to silver-gray, the traditional coastal Maine wall.
Each course goes over housewrap with corrosion-resistant nails, corners woven or butted to boards as the house had them.
James Hardie fiber cement is our pick for the Foreside's close-set houses, mostly built before 1940, because fiber cement holds up better than vinyl in salt wind.
We keep the boards clear of ground and roofs and flash every joint. Wide corner boards and casings echo the trim detail Foreside design standards ask of new buildings.
Vinyl siding replacement suits the newer houses inland and the 1940s and 1950s homes, which the town plan estimates at more than a fifth of Kittery's housing.
We fix the flashing first, then hang vinyl loose so it can move. Pay for fiber cement or cedar only where a wall faces open water.
A Kittery job uses these three services.
Kittery's Code Enforcement FAQ calls for a permit when materials and labor top $2,000, at $12 per $1,000 of work plus a $25 fee. Siding goes unnamed, so we check with the Code Enforcement office and pull any permit needed.
Where you allow it, we lift siding at a sill, corner and window head and write the findings into the scope.
The written price goes into a contract you sign before any work begins.
No coastal storm finds the house open all around, and we walk the finished walls with you.
You choose siding installation in Kittery, ME by asking each crew what goes behind the siding on a salt-exposed wall: housewrap, flashing at every opening, kick-outs and salt-resistant nails. A quote priced only by the square leaves those out.
Ask about old paint: the town's 2017 comprehensive plan estimated one home in four was built in 1939 or earlier, and the EPA's lead renovation rule applies to houses built before 1978.
Maine law requires a signed contract on jobs over $3,000 and caps the first payment at one third; hold every crew to it.
Kittery owners who need new siding first tend to have an old wood wall facing water at Kittery Point or on the Foreside. Resort-era Greek Revival and Victorian houses also need careful trim work.
Kittery zoning reaches a house's exterior on the Foreside, where Title 16 sets design standards for new buildings and big additions, and at Kittery Point, whose zone guards its established character. We ask the town whether either covers a siding-only job.
A Kittery house should be re-sided between spring and fall; even with Maine's mildest winters, stain and paint need dry days to cure.
Siding installation in Kittery costs about $975 to $1,200 per square in vinyl, $1,450 to $1,800 in LP SmartSide, $1,575 to $1,925 in James Hardie and $2,400 in cedar shingles. Read them as the middle of many Kittery quotes, not your price.
| House size | Vinyl | LP SmartSide | James Hardie | Cedar shingles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small20 to 25 squares | $19,500 to $30,000 | $29,000 to $45,000 | $31,500 to $48,000 | $48,000 to $60,000 |
| Medium25 to 32 squares | $24,000 to $38,500 | $36,000 to $58,000 | $39,000 to $61,500 | $60,000 to $77,000 |
| Large32+ squares | from $31,000 | from $46,500 | from $50,000 | from $77,000 |
Kittery installed averages per square (100 square feet of wall), never a quote, with tear-off, housewrap, flashing, trim and haul-away in; wet sheathing raises them.
Beyond the material, a Kittery price rises most with what tear-off uncovers: wet sheathing, a rotted sill, flashing that quit. Height, tight Foreside side yards and heavy trim add more.
Siding over the old makes sense in Kittery when that layer is asbestos-cement shingles or lead-painted wood on a dry, flat wall, skipping tear-off and disposal. A soft or water-stained wall comes off regardless.
This page shows no repair price because a Kittery siding repair is priced on site, by how many boards or shingles are damaged, how high they sit and what rot is behind them. If most of an elevation is damaged, we recommend re-siding it.
A Kittery siding project starts with the free estimate request: we visit, look under the old siding and send a written price. No deposit changes hands before a signed contract.
