Siding installation in Old Orchard Beach, ME means working on crowded lots where cottages, condominiums and year-round houses stand close together near the beach. We open one wall at a time and flash it before new siding goes on.
This page explains how we re-side houses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine: old siding off, sheathing checked and mended, new housewrap and flashing, then cedar shingles, James Hardie fiber cement, vinyl or LP SmartSide with trim to suit.
The town packs small-lot cottages, converted seasonal rentals and year-round houses close together near its seven-mile beach, and a historic overlay covers part of Portland Avenue. We read each wall before writing a price and plan the work around the summer rental season.
The figure to keep: in Old Orchard Beach, vinyl averages $1,050 to $1,300 per square installed and cedar shingles about $2,600, middle-of-the-road figures from many quotes rather than a price for any one house.
Old Orchard Beach re-sides start behind the siding because a house near open water depends on the housewrap, flashing and nails that meet wind-driven rain first. The face is for the street; those layers keep the sills sound.
Cedar suits the older cottages near the beach. Painted board suits year-round houses inland.
A beach cottage reads right in cedar, and cedar shingle siding left natural weathers to the silver-gray of the Maine coast.
Each course goes over fresh housewrap with corrosion-resistant nails, laid in spring or fall on a rented cottage.
For a year-round house inland, or a converted seasonal one, we suggest James Hardie fiber cement for a painted lap wall meant to last.
As board siding, it needs ground and roofline clearance, flashing at windows and joints, and nailing per the maker's instructions.
LP SmartSide engineered wood gives a converted rental a painted lap look for less per square than Hardie here.
We keep its bottom course clear of soil, steps and roofs and paint every cut edge.
Nearly every job here combines these three.
The town's permit application names siding among work that alters a building, so we ask Old Orchard Beach Code Enforcement what your job needs and pull any permit required.
We check under the water-facing window, at one corner and along a sill, where you allow it, and write what we find into the scope.
Work starts after we both sign, which Maine's home construction contract law requires above $3,000, with a down payment capped at one third.
We strip, wrap, flash and side each wall before opening the next, haul the old siding away and walk the house with you.
To choose siding installation in Old Orchard Beach, ME, pick the crew that tells you what is under your old siding before naming a price. A quote silent on sheathing and flashing prices only the face.
Ask how they will stage a side wall a few feet from the next cottage; the town's 1993 plan described many houses crowded onto narrow streets.
For a house built before 1978, ask how old paint will be handled under the EPA's lead-safe renovation rules. On Portland Avenue's historic stretch, ask if they have called the Design Review Committee, which wants replaced features to match the original in style, scale and material.
New siding in Old Orchard Beach is for owners of summer rentals, year-round houses inland and older cottages whose walls no longer shed water.
Old Orchard Beach walls take the hardest weather on the beachfront and in the Residential Beachfront District north of Parcher Avenue, facing the nor'easters NOAA ranks as Maine's most disruptive storms.
An Old Orchard Beach siding job belongs in spring or fall, clear of deep winter and the rental season, with dry days for stained cedar to cure.
New siding in Old Orchard Beach costs about $1,050 to $1,300 per square (100 square feet of wall) of vinyl, $1,550 to $1,950 of LP SmartSide, $1,700 to $2,075 of James Hardie fiber cement and $2,600 of cedar shingles, installed. Each is the middle of many local quotes, not your price.
| House size | Vinyl | LP SmartSide | James Hardie | Cedar shingles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small20 to 25 squares | $21,000 to $32,500 | $31,000 to $48,500 | $34,000 to $52,000 | $52,000 to $65,000 |
| Medium25 to 32 squares | $26,000 to $41,500 | $39,000 to $62,500 | $42,000 to $66,500 | $65,000 to $83,000 |
| Large32+ squares | from $33,000 | from $50,000 | from $54,000 | from $83,000 |
Old Orchard Beach averages from many quotes, never one quote, covering removal, wrap, flashing, trim and cleanup. Hidden rot can push a house up a row.
After the material, an Old Orchard Beach price moves most with what tear-off exposes, from spongy sheathing to flashing that quit, then tall walls, tight side yards and heavy trim.
New siding can cover the old in Old Orchard Beach for less, mostly where old paint holds lead or asbestos-cement shingles are best left in place. It never goes over rot, or onto a Portland Avenue overlay house without the town's certificate.
There is no repair price here because an Old Orchard Beach fix turns on how many pieces failed, their height, any rot behind them and the match. We price repairs from a visit, and wall-wide damage calls for new siding instead.
Starting an Old Orchard Beach siding job takes a free estimate request, a visit to your walls and a written price. Siding is all we do.
