Window and siding replacement in Cumberland

Cumberland at a glance

People

8,647

Homes

3,282

Size

22.9 square miles

From downtown

About 9 miles north

ZIP codes

04021, 04110

Founded or incorporated

1821

The town runs from Cumberland Foreside on Casco Bay inland to West Cumberland at the Windham line. It split from North Yarmouth in 1821, still holds the yearly Cumberland Fair, and keeps a few working farms and orchards; Chebeague Island left to become its own town in 2007.

The houses in Cumberland

In Cumberland, 46% of homes went up before 1980 and 15% before 1940; the median one dates from 1984. 82% are detached single-family houses, and owners live in 91% 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 $616,800, and 79% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Cumberland were built before 1984, which makes its housing about 8 years newer than across Cumberland County as a whole (median 1976). Set against Cumberland County as a whole, owners live in 91% of occupied homes here against 70% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $616,800 here and $451,200 across the county and detached houses are 82% of the homes, above the county's 63%.

Rooms in the median home

7.4

Heated with gas / electricity

23% / 8%

Townhouses and other attached homes

8%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

4%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

4%

Mobile homes

2%

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 Cumberland, 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 Cumberland Center, Cumberland Foreside and West Cumberland.

Next door

Cumberland shares a boundary with Falmouth, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth, Gray, Windham, Chebeague Island and Casco Bay.

The rules in Cumberland

What the permit costs

Renovations and alterations are charged $14 per $1,000 of cost, with a $50 minimum; building without a required permit costs double the fee for a first offense and triple for a second.

Local quirks

Construction within 250 feet of a river, lake, stream or wetland associated with a water body also needs a Shoreland Zoning Permit.

Who to call

Building dept

207-829-2207

Official

William Longley, Code Enforcement Officer, Building Inspector, Licensed Plumbing Inspector

Permits

Department page

How Cumberland compares with its neighbors

All 25 Cumberland County places side by side →

Work we have done in Cumberland

No completed job in Cumberland on the books yet, and we would rather say so than invent one.

Common questions about Cumberland

Where these facts came from

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