Window and siding replacement in North Yarmouth

North Yarmouth at a glance

People

4,240

Homes

1,612

Size

21.2 square miles

From downtown

About 13 miles north

ZIP codes

04097

Founded or incorporated

1680

An inland town north of Yarmouth whose one named village is Walnut Hill. Chartered in 1680, it once took in the land of today's Yarmouth, Cumberland, Freeport, Pownal and Harpswell, which split off between 1750 and 1849.

The houses in North Yarmouth

45% of the homes in North Yarmouth are older than 1980 and 13% older than 1940; the median one dates from 1983; 94% are detached houses and 87% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. 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.

78% of the homes in North Yarmouth have three or more bedrooms. The median owned home is worth about $496,500 by its owner's estimate, the figure to weigh any siding or window quote against.

Half the homes in North Yarmouth were built before 1983, which makes its housing about 7 years newer than across Cumberland County as a whole (median 1976). Set against Cumberland County as a whole, owners live in 87% of occupied homes here against 70% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $496,500 here and $451,200 across the county and detached houses are 94% of the homes, above the county's 63%.

Rooms in the median home

6.8

Heated with gas / electricity

4% / 11%

Townhouses and other attached homes

1%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

5%

Homes in buildings of 5 or more units

0%

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 Yarmouth, 33% 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 Walnut Hill.

Next door

North Yarmouth shares a boundary with Cumberland, Yarmouth, Pownal, Gray and New Gloucester.

The rules in North Yarmouth

What the permit costs

Every permit carries a $25 administrative fee, and a late permit costs double.

Who to call

Building dept

207-829-3705

Official

Mark Stambach, Code Enforcement Officer

Permits

Department page

How North Yarmouth compares with its neighbors

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Work we have done in North Yarmouth

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Common questions about North Yarmouth

Where these facts came from

Sources: northyarmouth.org · northyarmouth.org · northyarmouth.org · northyarmouth.org · northyarmouth.org · northyarmouth.org · northyarmouth.org · legislature.maine.gov · www2.census.gov · maine.gov · maine.gov