Window and Siding Replacement in Limerick, ME

Limerick at a glance

Permit to re-side

Not required

Window, same opening

Not required

New or bigger opening: required

Window must meet

U-0.30 or lower

2021 IECC (statewide)

Built before 1980

22%

Homes in Limerick, Census 2020–2024

People: 3,400
Homes: 1,597
Size: 27.1 square miles
From downtown: About 26 miles west
ZIP codes: 04048
Founded or incorporated: 1787

Limerick, settled in 1775 and incorporated in 1787, is a town of hills and lakes that grew along the old Sokokis Trail, now Route 5. Sokokis Lake and part of the Lake Arrowhead community lie within it, and the Limerick Upper Village Historic District preserves part of its old village.

The houses in Limerick

Before 19404%

1940–19596%

1960–197911%

1980–199949%

2000 or later30%

Of the homes in Limerick, 22% predate 1980 and 4% predate 1940; the median one dates from 1994. Detached single-family houses make up 88%; owners live in 90% of the occupied ones. Most homes here are newer than the 1978 lead-paint cutoff, so the lead rule comes up less often here than across the metro. What the lead rule requires of a contractor.

Owners here put the median home's value at about $269,400, and 60% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Limerick were built before 1994, which makes its housing about 14 years newer than across York County as a whole (median 1980). Set against York County as a whole, owners live in 90% of occupied homes here against 77% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $269,400 here and $395,700 across the county and detached houses are 88% of the homes, above the county's 70%.

Rooms in the median home: 5.1
Heated with gas / electricity: 0% / 3%
Townhouses and other attached homes: 4%
Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units: 2%
Homes in buildings of 5 or more units: 0%
Mobile homes: 6%

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 Limerick, 49% 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.

The one to watch on a house of this age

Windows of this era were often sealed to the wrap with caulk and little else. When the siding comes off, check the sheathing below each window's lower corners: that is where a failed caulk joint shows up first, as dark, soft wood.

And on the 30% built in 2000 or later

Houses built to recent Maine codes are tight, and Maine now holds new houses to a lower air-leakage limit than the national code. A tight house with too little ventilation fogs its windows all winter; before blaming the glass, check the humidity and the bath and kitchen fans.

Neighborhoods

We work across Limerick Village, Limerick Upper Village, Limerick Mills, Lake Arrowhead, Sokokis Lake, Felch Corner, Emerys Corner and Perrys Corner.

Historic districts

Limerick has 1 listed: Limerick Upper Village 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

Limerick shares a boundary with Newfield, Parsonsfield, Cornish, Limington and Waterboro.

Gothic-style house with carved bargeboard trim, a pointed window and diamond-pane sashes

The rules in Limerick

Siding replacement No permit

No. Limerick's zoning ordinance (amended June 11, 2024) says basic maintenance and repairs such as clapboard or vinyl siding, roof replacements, painting and window replacement do not require a permit, and that repairs not involving structural elements need none.

Window replacement, same opening No permit Enlarging or cutting an opening Permit required

Window replacement is named on the same list; structural work, a new opening included, is not exempt.

Maine sets this, not Limerick: U-0.30 or lower

Limerick, with 3,188 residents in the 2020 Census, is not required to enforce the state's code, but its own pages tie its permits to it.

That is the 2021 energy code’s window figure, with no solar heat gain limit.

ENERGY STAR’s own figure here is U-0.22 or lower with an SHGC of 0.17 or higher, stricter than any code edition in force. When the code applies to a replacement window, and when it does not.

Local quirks

The ordinance makes the property owner responsible for contacting the Code Enforcement Officer before work begins to confirm whether a permit is needed.

Who to call

Building dept: 207-793-4470
Official: Stanley Hackett, Code Enforcement Officer
Permits: Department page

What is behind the siding: every layer explained

Worker on a lift painting new shingle and lap siding on a house gable

Kitchen window with potted plants on the sill and a snowy yard outside

Victorian clapboard house with a mansard roof, bracketed eaves and a columned front porch

Red clapboard cape-style house with a center chimney, shrubs and a sunny lawn

How Limerick compares with its neighbors

Place	Permit to re-side	Permit for a window	Window must meet
Limerick	No	No	U-0.30
Newfield	No	No	U-0.30
Parsonsfield	Not published	Not published	U-0.30
Cornish	Not published	Not published	U-0.30
Limington	No	No	U-0.30
Waterboro	Not published	Not published	U-0.30
Lyman	No	No	U-0.30

All 29 York County places side by side →

Work we have done in Limerick

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

Common questions about Limerick

How old are most houses in Limerick?

49% went up in the 1980s and 1990s and 30% in 2000 or later; the median Limerick home dates from 1994, and 22% are older than 1980 (4% older than 1940). ACS 2020–2024.

Is a permit needed to replace siding or windows in Limerick?

Not for siding. Limerick's rules require no permit to re-side and to replace a window in the same opening and require a permit to cut or enlarge an opening. No. Limerick's zoning ordinance (amended June 11, 2024) says basic maintenance and repairs such as clapboard or vinyl siding, roof replacements, painting and window replacement do not require a permit, and that repairs not involving structural elements need none. Next door in Parsonsfield, a re-side has no published rule.

What window efficiency rule applies in Limerick?

Maine sets it statewide, not Limerick: a U-factor of 0.30 or lower under the 2021 energy code Maine adopted, with no limit on solar heat gain. Limerick, with 3,188 residents in the 2020 Census, is not required to enforce the state's code, but its own pages tie its permits to it.

Does Limerick have historic districts that limit window or siding choices?

Limerick has 1: Limerick Upper Village Historic District. Check a property's listing before ordering a visible window change.

Where these facts came from

Sources: 0201.nccdn.net · limerickme.org · 0201.nccdn.net · limerickme.org · 0201.nccdn.net · maine.gov · legislature.maine.gov · www2.census.gov · maine.gov

Window and siding replacement in Limerick

What we do in Limerick

Replacement windows

Siding replacement

Vinyl siding

Fiber cement

Hail & storm damage

Older homes