Window and siding replacement in Alfred

Alfred at a glance

People

3,125

Homes

1,400

Size

27.3 square miles

From downtown

About 27 miles southwest

ZIP codes

04002

Founded or incorporated

1808

Alfred has been the county seat of York County since 1806, and its village center is the Alfred Historic District, with 48 houses along the Kennebunk and Saco roads. The Alfred Shaker Historic District on Shaker Hill and part of the Massabesic Experimental Forest are also in town, and the Great Fires of 1947 burned 4,500 acres of its woodland and two homes.

The houses in Alfred

46% of the homes in Alfred are older than 1980 and 19% older than 1940; the median one dates from 1983; 74% are detached houses and 82% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. A sizable share of homes here date from before 1980, the era the federal lead rule covers (homes built before 1978). What the lead rule requires of a contractor.

Owners here put the median home's value at about $342,300, and 56% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Alfred were built before 1983, which makes its housing about 3 years newer than across York County as a whole (median 1980). Set against York County as a whole, owners live in 82% of occupied homes here against 77% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $342,300 here and $395,700 across the county and detached houses are 74% of the homes, above the county's 70%.

Rooms in the median home

5.2

Heated with gas / electricity

1% / 6%

Townhouses and other attached homes

0%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

12%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

3%

Mobile homes

12%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates (tables B25034, B25035, B25024, B25003, B25077, B25041, B25018 and B25040), read through Census Reporter. These are survey estimates, not a count of every house.

What that vintage turns up

The largest group of homes in Alfred, 29% of them, was built in 2000 or later, so that is the house described here.

Double-glazed low-e vinyl or fiberglass windows, usually installed with flashing tape over a house wrap. These rarely need replacing for age; when one fails it is usually a seal or a piece of hardware, and the maker's warranty is worth checking before anything else. Heavy frost or water on the inside of the glass in a cold snap is more often a humidity problem in a tight house than a window defect.

Vinyl, fiber cement or engineered wood over oriented strand board and a house wrap, the wall assembly the current code expects. The weak points are workmanship, not materials: tape that let go at the window corners, a missing kickout where a roof edge meets a sidewall, J-channel run tight with no room for the siding to move.

Neighborhoods

We work across Alfred Village, Alfred Mills, North Alfred and Shaker Hill.

Historic districts

Alfred has 2 listed: Alfred Historic District and Alfred Shaker Historic District. A National Register listing on its own does not limit what you fit; a local district or landmark designation can, and in several towns here a change of siding material or window sash needs a certificate before the permit. Which towns' rules bind, and how.

Next door

Alfred shares a boundary with Sanford, Kennebunk, Lyman, Waterboro and Shapleigh.

The rules in Alfred

Who to call

Building dept

207-324-5872

Official

Steve Fortier, Code Enforcement Officer

Permits

Department page

How Alfred compares with its neighbors

All 29 York County places side by side →

Work we have done in Alfred

We have no finished work in Alfred to show you yet. This fills in as jobs land, and not before.

Common questions about Alfred

Where these facts came from

Sources: alfredme.gov · alfredme.gov · alfredme.gov · ecode360.com · ecode360.com · ecode360.com · ecode360.com · maine.gov · legislature.maine.gov · www2.census.gov · maine.gov