Siding installation in Standish, ME covers owner-occupied homes on farmland, near Sebago Lake and in two old villages, Standish Corner and Steep Falls. We look under the old siding before pricing, then fit vinyl, LP SmartSide or James Hardie board to the house.
This page covers re-siding a house in Standish, Maine: tearing off tired siding, fixing soft sheathing, wrapping and flashing the wall, and installing vinyl, LP SmartSide or Hardie fiber cement board with new trim.
Standish is an inland lake town with deep frost, heavy snow load and no salt air, so the job is set up for cold: loose-hung vinyl, boards held clear of drifting snow. Near the Standish Corner farmhouses, we check the town's historic preservation rules before any material changes.
The figure to keep: across many quotes, vinyl in Standish averages $1,025 to $1,275 a square and cedar shingles about $2,550 a square, averages that frame a budget rather than price your walls.
Deep frost matters for new siding in Standish because inland cold swings wall temperatures hard and heavy snow piles against the lowest courses. Tight nails and low courses fail first.
Standish's draft comprehensive plan says most new homes went up outside the village centers.
On those newer rural houses we recommend vinyl siding replacement first: sound walls at the lowest cost per square, with money left for sheathing and flashing.
Vinyl grows in August sun and shrinks in deep frost, so each nail sits centered in its slot, a hair proud of the panel.
The draft plan calls Steep Falls a historically significant village whose future building should keep its historic scale. Near it, LP SmartSide engineered wood gives a painted wall that reads as wood boards.
We keep LP off the soil and clear of roof lines, back each butt joint with flashing and prime every cut end.
The Standish Corner Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1993, is five early farmhouses on Route 25 led by the 1789 Marrett House. Beside them, James Hardie fiber cement lap with wide corner boards holds a crisp clapboard line.
Because Standish's ordinance treats new exterior material as a material change, we ask the town first whether your property is covered.
Standish jobs draw on three kinds of work.
Standish Code Enforcement takes permits online, but its page does not say whether a re-side needs one. We ask, and pull the permit wherever the town wants one.
With your say-so we ease back a piece at a sill, a window head and a corner, and note the house's age for lead paint.
Maine's home construction contract law requires both past $3,000 and limits the up-front payment to a third.
We strip, wrap, flash and side each face before touching the next, and finish with a look at every wall together, old siding gone.
You choose siding installation in Standish, ME by asking each contractor what happens when the old siding comes off and the sheathing is soft. A price that never mentions sheathing or flashing buys siding hung over whatever is there.
Ask how lead paint on a pre-1978 house will be contained; the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule governs it. Near Standish Corner, ask whether the Historic Preservation Commission has a say first.
Our answer for most newer Standish homes is vinyl, with LP or Hardie where the house asks for a painted board.
Standish owners who ask about new siding mostly live in their own single-family homes, the bulk of the town's housing.
We work from Standish Corner and Steep Falls to Sebago Lake Station, and a lake home gets the same wall check as a Route 25 farmhouse.
The right time to re-side a Standish house is late spring through fall, once the ground thaws and trim paint can cure.
New siding in Standish costs about $1,025 to $1,275 a square in vinyl; LP SmartSide runs $1,525 to $1,900, James Hardie fiber cement $1,650 to $2,050 and cedar shingles about $2,550. These averages come from many quotes, a way to test a budget before anyone measures your walls.
| House size | Vinyl | LP SmartSide | James Hardie | Cedar shingles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small20 to 25 squares | $20,500 to $32,000 | $30,500 to $48,000 | $33,000 to $51,000 | $51,000 to $63,500 |
| Medium25 to 32 squares | $25,500 to $41,000 | $38,000 to $61,000 | $41,500 to $65,500 | $63,500 to $81,500 |
| Large32+ squares | from $32,500 | from $49,000 | from $53,000 | from $81,500 |
Standish installed averages, not a quote, covering tear-off, wrap and flashing, trim and disposal. Each square means 100 square feet of wall; hidden rot moves it.
After the material, a Standish price swings most on what the old siding hides: soft sheathing, missing flashing, a rotted rim board. Two-story walls and heavy trim work come next.
New siding over the old costs less with no tear-off, and it suits asbestos-cement shingle or lead-painted wood left in place. It is off the table on a wavy, wet or rotted wall.
We price each Standish siding repair from a visit, since the piece count, wall height, hidden rot and color match all change the job. When most of a wall is damaged, we would rather re-side it than patch it.
After you ask about a Standish re-side, we walk the house, check beneath the old siding and then write up the price. Siding is ordered only after you sign.
