Window and siding replacement in Casco

Casco at a glance

People

3,696

Homes

2,973

Size

31.3 square miles

From downtown

About 24 miles northwest

ZIP codes

04015, 04077

Founded or incorporated

1841

Casco reaches the shore of Sebago Lake and holds part of Sebago Lake State Park, one of Maine's five original state parks, with South Casco set between Sebago Lake and Thomas Pond. It was set off from Raymond in 1841, and pond outlets once ran a string of small mills.

The houses in Casco

Of the homes in Casco, 36% predate 1980 and 5% predate 1940; the median one dates from 1988. Detached single-family houses make up 76%; owners live in 90% 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.

By the owners' own estimate, the median owned home in Casco is worth about $355,500. 62% of homes have three or more bedrooms, and each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Casco were built before 1988, which makes its housing about 12 years newer than across Cumberland County as a whole (median 1976). Set against Cumberland County as a whole, owners live in 90% of occupied homes here against 70% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $355,500 here and $451,200 across the county and detached houses are 76% of the homes, above the county's 63%.

Rooms in the median home

5.4

Heated with gas / electricity

1% / 7%

Townhouses and other attached homes

2%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

1%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

1%

Mobile homes

20%

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 Casco, 33% 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 South Casco, Cook Mills, Crescent Lake and Pike Corner.

Next door

Casco shares a boundary with Naples, Raymond, Sebago, Otisfield, Poland and Sebago Lake.

The rules in Casco

What the permit costs

Residential alteration permits are charged by project cost, from $20 for work up to $500 to $100 plus $4 per $1,000 over $10,000, and the fee doubles for work started without a permit.

Who to call

Building dept

207-627-4515

Official

John Wiesemann, Code Enforcement Officer

Permits

Department page

How Casco compares with its neighbors

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Work we have done in Casco

Nothing completed in Casco so far. Rather than pad this out, we have left it blank until there is a real job to describe.

Common questions about Casco

Where these facts came from

Sources: cascomaine.org · cascomaine.org · cascomaine.org · cascomaine.org · cascomaine.org · townofnaples.org · legislature.maine.gov · www2.census.gov · maine.gov