Siding Contractor Farmington, ME: Snow Sits Against the Wall Up Here
- The siding contractor Farmington, ME homeowners hire should know the snow line here is not the Kennebec valley snow line.
- The owner is Brandon Roberge, 25+ years a builder, in Maine since 2017 and answering his own phone the whole time.
- 94% on schedule and on budget is what the files say. The 6% that slipped is why the 94 is worth reading.
- 25+ years in construction, building as Newman Homes since 2017
- Over 200 projects completed in Central Maine
- Affordable work, two-year written warranty
Re-siding houses in Farmington, Maine, in the village and university neighborhoods, the Sandy River intervale, and the hill roads toward Industry and Chesterville.
Farmington is colder than the valley towns and holds snow against a wall longer, which is hard on the bottom two feet of any siding. Ground clearance and the starter course detail are worth more attention here than they get in most bids.
The season is also shorter. Siding wants dry, workable weather, so booking in spring rather than hoping for a mild November is the practical advice. Vinyl runs $6.00 to $9.00 a square foot of wall.
What Comes Off and What Goes On
Six pieces make up a siding job, and the middle four are where a cheap bid gets cheap.
The old siding comes off. Siding over siding traps water, hides rot, and voids most manufacturer warranties.
A weather-resistive barrier over the whole wall. House wrap, lapped shingle-style, taped at the seams. Most houses here have never had one.
Clearance sized for the real snow line. The printed minimum assumes a climate this town does not have, so we set the bottom course higher.
Every window and door reflashed. Head flashing, sill pan, and the wrap lapped in the right order. Openings are where walls leak.
Intervale houses carry water questions. Sandy River floodplain lots stay damp, and damp ground works on the bottom of a wall year round.
Hillside access. Steep driveways decide whether material gets delivered to the house or carried to it, and that is a labor line.
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The Part Nobody Can Price Yet
The old siding is hiding something on most houses in this state, and it is nothing about half the time.
So we write allowances. Sheathing replacement, sill repair, and framing repair each get a unit price in the contract before anything comes off.
You only pay for what gets replaced, counted and shown to you.
Wall damage in this town is concentrated in the bottom courses and at the intervale lots. Both come from the same thing: water sitting against the house for months.
Clearance, fastening, and warranty conditions for fiber cement are published by the manufacturer, and the ground clearance rule is the one that matters here.
Where Our Farmington Jobs Sit
The village and university neighborhoods, the Sandy River intervale, and the hill roads toward Industry and Chesterville.
When in the Year to Do This
May through October. Finish work on fiber cement or cedar wants warm dry weather and this town gives less of it than the valley.
Permits go through Farmington Code Enforcement, with shoreland and floodplain review on intervale lots.
Why Farmington Homeowners Sign With Us
Because the contract names what nobody can see yet, in dollars.
The repair rates are agreed in advance, which means a change order is a multiplication rather than a negotiation.
The bottom-course and sill allowance is where a Farmington estimate either tells the truth or does not. Ours carries a per-foot rate written before demolition.
Who Ends Up on the Farmington Schedule
Farmington sits in the western foothills, where more snow arrives and it stays on the ground longer.
The calls come from the village, the university rental stock, the Sandy River intervale farms, and the newer houses on the outlying hills.
How Much a Siding Contractor Farmington, ME Charges
The unit is square feet of wall. A two-story house of 2,000 square feet has about 2,200 square feet of exterior to cover. A mid-grade vinyl re-side prices $6.00 to $9.00 per square foot of wall, tear-off included. The engineered-wood step up is $8.00 to $11.00 per square foot, and it is the most common upgrade we sell here. James Hardie and the fiber-cement family price at $10.00 to $15.00 per square foot of wall. Cedar shingle or clapboard, stained, is the top of the range at $14.00 to $20.00 per square foot. Count your windows before you read a bid. Each opening is flashing and trim labor that the square footage never shows. $12,000 is the bottom of a full re-side here. Below that you are pricing one elevation, not a house. None of that is a quote. It is the middle of hundreds of estimates and every wall argues a little. Village and hill houses price across the vinyl through fiber cement bands. Rental properties near campus tend toward vinyl for maintenance reasons, and that is a defensible choice. For Farmington homeowners who want it itemized, we published a siding cost guide.
How to Hire a Siding Contractor in Farmington
The most useful sentence on this page costs us more than it earns. Anyone can sell a siding job in Maine without holding anything at all from the state.
Insurance is checkable even when licensing does not exist. Ask for both certificates and call the carrier listed on them.
Put it on paper instead. Six items, all of them ordinary to ask for.
What the clearance above grade will be, given how much snow banks against these walls.
was factored into the material choice.
The weather barrier named by product, and whether the seams are taped or just lapped.
The price fixed in writing under Maine's contract statute, which holds any deposit to a third of the total.
A written 2-year warranty on the labor, backed by an A+ BBB profile.
One protects the house, the other protects you from the crew's injuries.
Nearby Areas We Serve
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Directions from Farmington, ME to our shop in Augusta
125 Community DrAugusta, ME 04330-8156
How We Run a Farmington Re-Side
- The walkthrough.We look at the wall, the trim, the flashing, and the ground clearance at the bottom of it.
- The number, with its parts showing.Siding, trim, flashing, staging, disposal, and allowances, each separate.
- The install.Sequenced by elevation, wrapped daily, and finished with a full trim pass.
Get a Farmington Siding Estimate
Dial (207) 480-7700, day or night, and you will usually get the man who runs the company.
There is also info@newmanhomesme.com, and the estimate form if you would rather type.