Window and siding replacement in Pownal

Pownal at a glance

People

1,696

Homes

741

Size

22.9 square miles

From downtown

About 17 miles north

ZIP codes

04069

Founded or incorporated

1808

A small farm town that was the northwest part of Freeport until it was set off in 1808, drained by the eastern branches of the Royal River. Farming was its main work through the 1800s, and it is home to Bradbury Mountain State Park.

The houses in Pownal

In Pownal, 62% of homes went up before 1980 and 32% before 1940; the median one dates from 1971. 87% are detached single-family houses, and owners live in 89% 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.

Owners here put the median home's value at about $436,800, and 76% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Pownal were built before 1971, which makes its housing about 5 years older than across Cumberland County as a whole (median 1976). Set against Cumberland County as a whole, owners live in 89% of occupied homes here against 70% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $436,800 here and $451,200 across the county and detached houses are 87% of the homes, above the county's 63%.

Rooms in the median home

6.6

Heated with gas / electricity

5% / 9%

Townhouses and other attached homes

3%

Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units

9%

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 Pownal, 32% of them, was built before 1940, so that is the house described here.

The originals are wood double-hung sashes on cords and weights: small panes on the capes and farmhouses, two-over-two or one-over-one on the Victorian, Italianate and Greek Revival houses of the shipbuilding and mill towns. Many now sit behind an aluminum storm window added decades later. The sash wood is usually old-growth and sound; the putty, the sill paint and the cords are what give out. A tuned-up sash with a tight storm in front of it is a real alternative to replacement on these houses, and inside a local historic district it is often the one the review expects.

Painted wood clapboards on the street walls, and cedar shingles on the sides, the ells and every surface of the Shingle-style summer houses along the coast, all nailed straight to board sheathing. In the cities a good share of these are two- and three-family houses. Plenty were later wrapped in asbestos-cement shingles, aluminum or vinyl to stop the painting; underneath is either clapboard worth restoring or soft bottom courses where winter snow banked against the wall for decades.

Neighborhoods

We work across North Pownal, Pownal Center and West Pownal.

Next door

Pownal shares a boundary with North Yarmouth, Freeport, Durham and New Gloucester.

The rules in Pownal

What the permit costs

Alterations are charged $25 plus $0.20 per square foot, with a $25 minimum, and late permits cost double.

Who to call

Building dept

207-688-4431

Official

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

Permits

Department page

How Pownal compares with its neighbors

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Work we have done in Pownal

We have no finished work in Pownal to show you yet. This fills in as jobs land, and not before.

Common questions about Pownal

Where these facts came from

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