Window and siding replacement in Arundel

Arundel at a glance

People

4,418

Homes

1,803

Size

23.9 square miles

From downtown

About 20 miles southwest

ZIP codes

04046

Founded or incorporated

1915

Arundel was the inland part of Kennebunkport until 1915, when it was set off as North Kennebunkport; it took the old name Arundel in 1957. It has no ocean frontage and is crossed by Interstate 95 and Route 1, with the Kennebunk River draining the town.

The houses in Arundel

In Arundel, 31% of homes went up before 1980 and 6% before 1940; the median one dates from 1992. 78% are detached single-family houses, and owners live in 82% of the occupied ones. 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 $421,300, and 79% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Arundel were built before 1992, which makes its housing about 12 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 $421,300 here and $395,700 across the county and detached houses are 78% of the homes, above the county's 70%.

Rooms in the median home

6.0

Heated with gas / electricity

0% / 6%

Townhouses and other attached homes

0%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

6%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

1%

Mobile homes

15%

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 Arundel, 35% of them, was built in the 1980s and 1990s, so that is the house described here.

Double-glazed vinyl or clad wood windows with a nailing fin, many now thirty or forty years old. The common failure is the seal between the panes: once it lets go the glass fogs between the layers and the gas fill is gone. When the frames are still square and dry, new sealed glass in the old frame is the cheaper repair; when the frames are cracked or the sills are soft, it is time for the whole unit.

The capes, colonials and raised ranches of the subdivisions that spread across the commuter towns, sided in vinyl or cedar clapboard over plywood or particle-board sheathing, with felt paper or an early house wrap behind it. The siding itself usually holds up; what to look at is what water has done at the corners, around the windows and under any deck ledger fastened through the siding.

Neighborhoods

We work across Arundel Village, Vinegar Hill, Goff Mill, Log Cabin Crossing and Millers Crossing.

Next door

Arundel shares a boundary with Kennebunkport, Kennebunk, Lyman, Dayton and Biddeford.

The rules in Arundel

What the permit costs

Residential renovations cost $6 per $1,000, with a $75 minimum residential fee, and fees double (or a $250 penalty, whichever is more) when work starts before the permit.

Who to call

Building dept

207-985-4201

Official

Ryan Lawler, Code Enforcement Officer

Permits

Department page

How Arundel compares with its neighbors

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Work we have done in Arundel

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

Common questions about Arundel

Where these facts came from

Sources: arundel.govoffice.com · arundelmaine.org · arundel.govoffice.com · arundelmaine.org · legislature.maine.gov · www2.census.gov · maine.gov · maine.gov