Window and siding replacement in Lyman

Lyman at a glance

People

4,612

Homes

2,268

Size

39.0 square miles

From downtown

About 22 miles southwest

ZIP codes

04002

Founded or incorporated

1780

Lyman, incorporated in 1780 as Coxhall, is a town of many ponds, including Kennebunk Pond, Swan Pond, Bunganut Pond and Roberts-Wadley Pond, where early sawmills ran at the pond outlets. Goodwins Mills, its only trade center, sits partly in Dayton, and the Great Fires of 1947 devastated part of the town.

The houses in Lyman

Of the homes in Lyman, 54% predate 1980 and 8% predate 1940; the median one dates from 1979. Detached single-family houses make up 85%; owners live in 95% of the occupied ones. With most of the housing older than 1980, the federal lead rule is likely on most window and siding jobs here. What the lead rule requires of a contractor.

70% of the homes in Lyman have three or more bedrooms. The median owned home is worth about $360,400 by its owner's estimate, the figure to weigh any siding or window quote against.

Half the homes in Lyman were built before 1979, which makes its housing about the same age as across York County as a whole (median 1980). Set against York County as a whole, owners live in 95% of occupied homes here against 77% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $360,400 here and $395,700 across the county and detached houses are 85% of the homes, above the county's 70%.

Rooms in the median home

5.8

Heated with gas / electricity

1% / 4%

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

13%

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 Lyman, 29% of them, was built in the 1960s and 1970s, so that is the house described here.

Aluminum sliders and single-hungs, single-glazed or with an early sealed unit, alongside the first vinyl-clad wood windows. An aluminum frame is a cold bridge: in January it collects frost and runs condensation onto the sill and the drywall return. Few of these windows are worth repairing, and on this vintage a full replacement is usually money well spent.

Raised ranches and split-levels in the new subdivisions, and lake cottages turned into year-round houses, clad in plywood panel siding, aluminum lap or the first vinyl. Plywood panels drink water at the bottom edge and at every butt joint; aluminum dents and chalks but rarely leaks. A converted camp may have siding nailed straight to the studs, with no sheathing and little or no insulation behind it.

Neighborhoods

We work across Goodwins Mills, Days Mill and Spang Mills.

Next door

Lyman shares a boundary with Hollis, Dayton, Arundel, Kennebunk, Alfred and Waterboro.

The rules in Lyman

Local quirks

Permits are issued only to the owner of record, or to an agent with a signed letter of authorization and a copy of the owner's driver's license.

Who to call

Building dept

207-247-0647

Official

Not published. Any site printing a name here is guessing.

Permits

Department page

How Lyman compares with its neighbors

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Work we have done in Lyman

We have not logged a finished job in Lyman 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 Lyman

Where these facts came from

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