Window and siding replacement in Lebanon

Lebanon at a glance

People

6,629

Homes

2,693

Size

55.0 square miles

From downtown

About 37 miles southwest

ZIP codes

04027

Founded or incorporated

1767

Lebanon, incorporated in 1767, is the westernmost town in Maine and runs along the Salmon Falls River on the New Hampshire line. Its villages are Center, East, North, South and West Lebanon, and four sawmills, three gristmills and a tannery once ran on the Salmon Falls and Little rivers.

The houses in Lebanon

In Lebanon, 35% of homes went up before 1980 and 14% before 1940; the median one dates from 1989. 83% are detached single-family houses, and owners live in 97% 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 Lebanon is worth about $324,800. 71% of homes have three or more bedrooms, and each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Lebanon were built before 1989, which makes its housing about 9 years newer than across York County as a whole (median 1980). Set against York County as a whole, owners live in 97% of occupied homes here against 77% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $324,800 here and $395,700 across the county and detached houses are 83% of the homes, above the county's 70%.

Rooms in the median home

6.3

Heated with gas / electricity

0% / 1%

Townhouses and other attached homes

0%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

2%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

0%

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 Lebanon, 37% 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 Center Lebanon, West Lebanon, North Lebanon, South Lebanon, East Lebanon, Blaisdell Corners and Fernald Shore.

Historic districts

Lebanon has 1 listed: West Lebanon 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

Lebanon shares a boundary with Acton, Sanford, Berwick, North Berwick, Milton, New Hampshire, Rochester, New Hampshire and Salmon Falls River.

The rules in Lebanon

Who to call

Building dept

207-457-6082

Official

Rod Furbush, Code Enforcement Officer

Permits

Department page

How Lebanon compares with its neighbors

All 29 York County places side by side →

Work we have done in Lebanon

We have not logged a finished job in Lebanon yet. When we do, it will be listed here with what was done — we would rather show nothing than a number you cannot check.

Common questions about Lebanon

Where these facts came from

Sources: lebanon-me.org · web.archive.org · web.archive.org · web.archive.org · maine.gov · legislature.maine.gov