Siding Services in Lewiston and Auburn
Four siding materials, each with its average price per square, and a repair service priced from a visit to your walls.
- Siding only, start to finish
- Free estimate requests
- 22 towns around Lewiston-Auburn
Which siding service does your house need?
Cedar Shingle SidingCedar shingles laid course by course on stainless or hot-dipped galvanized nails, left to silver or stained. About $2,000 a square.See Cedar Shingle Siding
Hardie SidingJames Hardie fiber cement lap from the HZ5 line Hardie lists for Maine, cut outdoors with dust control. Averages $1,300 to $1,600 a square.See Hardie Siding
LP SidingLP SmartSide engineered wood lap, primed for the paint you choose, with every cut edge sealed. Averages $1,200 to $1,500 a square.See LP Siding
Siding RepairA storm-torn corner, a soft run of clapboards or loose panels, fixed to match the wall around them and priced from a visit.See Siding Repair
Vinyl Siding ReplacementThe lowest-cost new wall: old siding off, rot fixed, openings flashed and panels hung loose. Averages $800 to $1,000 a square.See Vinyl Siding Replacement
Where do we replace siding?
Lewiston, Auburn and the towns around them, 22 in all, across Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford, Sagadahoc and Kennebec counties.
How Do We Help You Pick the Right Siding?
We help you pick the right siding by reading the house before any brochure: when it was built, how many stories it stands, what covers the walls now and how much trim frames the windows. A 1950s cape on the edge of Auburn and a Queen Anne near Bates want different walls, and we tell you which one we would put on yours.
Vinyl siding replacement is our pick for most multi-family houses and most tight budgets, at an average of $800 to $1,000 per square. It earns that spot only over a dry, flashed wall, which is why we check the sheathing before a single panel is ordered.
LP SmartSide gives a cape or colonial the look of painted boards for an average of $1,200 to $1,500 a square. James Hardie fiber cement averages $1,300 to $1,600, and James Hardie classifies its plank as noncombustible.
Choose LP when the budget leads and Hardie when you want the denser board. Both need paint or a factory finish, so we plan the color with you before the boards arrive.
Cedar shingles average about $2,000 a square and suit the farmhouses, capes and lake cottages in the towns around the two cities. Left natural, they weather to the silver-gray of an old Maine wall.
Every one of the four goes over the same work behind it: tear-off, any sheathing repair, new housewrap and flashing at each window and roof edge. The weather service lists 80.7 inches of snow a year for Lewiston, and the melt from that snow tests every flashing detail behind the boards.
What If You Are Not Sure Which Siding Your House Needs?
If you are not sure which siding your house needs, send the estimate request anyway and choose "Not sure, want advice" on the material question. We settle it at the visit, once a test course shows what the old wall is made of and how it has held up.
At that visit we price two materials side by side on paper, so the gap between them per square is a number you can weigh. We also note any cement shingles or paint from before 1978, since either one changes how the old layer comes off, or whether it stays.
Sometimes a wall needs less than a re-side, and then we say so and price a siding repair matched to the boards around it. No material is ordered before you have the price in writing and a signed contract in hand.
Which siding should your house get?
Tell us the town and what the walls are wearing now. We look at the walls first, then put the scope and the price in writing.