Window and siding replacement in North Berwick

North Berwick at a glance

People

5,129

Homes

2,238

Size

38.0 square miles

From downtown

About 34 miles southwest

ZIP codes

03906

Founded or incorporated

1831

North Berwick, set off from Berwick in 1831, grew as a mill and railroad town on the Great Works River, where a woolen blanket mill was rebuilt in brick in 1862 after a fire. Bauneg Beg Mountain, 866 feet high, is the town's highest point.

The houses in North Berwick

Of the homes in North Berwick, 45% predate 1980 and 24% predate 1940; the median one dates from 1983. Detached single-family houses make up 85%; owners live in 89% 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 $428,500, and 68% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in North Berwick were built before 1983, which makes its housing about 3 years newer than across York County as a whole (median 1980). Set against York County as a whole, owners live in 89% of occupied homes here against 77% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $428,500 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

6.3

Heated with gas / electricity

0% / 6%

Townhouses and other attached homes

0%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

6%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

6%

Mobile homes

3%

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 North Berwick, 30% 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 North Berwick Village, Doughty Falls, Five Corners, Varney Crossing, Estes Hill and Bauneg Beg.

Next door

North Berwick shares a boundary with Berwick, South Berwick, Wells, Sanford and Lebanon.

The rules in North Berwick

Who to call

Building dept

207-676-3353

Official

Matt LeConte, Code Enforcement

Permits

Department page

How North Berwick compares with its neighbors

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Work we have done in North Berwick

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

Common questions about North Berwick

Where these facts came from

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