Cumberland County, Maine
Window and siding replacement in Raymond
Replacement windows and new siding for homes in Raymond. Here a re-side needs no permit, and a replacement window has to be U-0.30 or lower.
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Learn moreRaymond 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
54%
Homes in Raymond, Census 2020–2024
- People
- 4,610
- Homes
- 3,053
- Size
- 33.2 square miles
- From downtown
- About 21 miles northwest
- ZIP codes
- 04071
- Founded or incorporated
- 1803
A summer recreation town on Sebago Lake, with Raymond village at the head of Jordan Bay and the ferry landing for Frye Island at Raymond Neck. Mills once ran on Panther Run below Panther Pond, and Nathaniel Hawthorne spent boyhood years here.
The houses in Raymond
Before 194015%
1940–195916%
1960–197923%
1980–199923%
2000 or later22%
In Raymond, 54% of homes went up before 1980 and 15% before 1940; the median one dates from 1976. 94% are detached single-family houses, and owners live in 90% 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.
By the owners' own estimate, the median owned home in Raymond is worth about $395,800. 68% of homes have three or more bedrooms, and each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.
Half the homes in Raymond were built before 1976, which makes its housing about the same age as across Cumberland County as a whole (median 1976). Set against Cumberland County as a whole, owners live in 90% of occupied homes here against 70% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $395,800 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
- 5.9
- Heated with gas / electricity
- 1% / 15%
- Townhouses and other attached homes
- 2%
- Homes in buildings of 2 to 4 units
- 1%
- Homes in buildings of 5 or more units
- 1%
- Mobile homes
- 1%
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 Raymond, 23% 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.
The one to watch on a house of this age
The bottom of the wall. Panel siding that runs down close to the ground soaks up water and snowmelt, and the rim joist and sill plate behind it rot unseen. On a converted camp, check whether there is any sheathing at all before anyone prices new siding as a simple swap.
And on the 23% built in the 1980s and 1990s
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.
Neighborhoods
We work across East Raymond, North Raymond and Raymond Neck.
Next door
Raymond shares a boundary with Casco, Gray, Windham, Standish, New Gloucester, Poland, Sebago and Sebago Lake.
The rules in Raymond
Siding replacement No permit
No. Raymond's building code page lists residing among the things you can do without a permit, and the town's Building Construction Ordinance (Chapter 400) exempts siding as cosmetic work.
Window replacement, same opening No permit Enlarging or cutting an opening Permit required
The same page lists "replacing a window if there is no change in size." A change in size is not exempt, and neither is cutting away a wall or anything that changes a required means of egress.
Maine sets this, not Raymond: U-0.30 or lower
With 4,536 residents in the 2020 Census, Raymond is over the 4,000 mark at which Maine requires a town to enforce the state's building and energy code.
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
Raymond allows 48 hours for permit processing; only electrical and plumbing permits are issued the same day.
Who to call
- Building dept
- 207-655-4742
- Official
- Jason Williamson, Code Enforcement Officer
- Permits
- Department page
How Raymond compares with its neighbors
| Place | Permit to re-side | Permit for a window | Window must meet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond | No | No | U-0.30 |
| Casco | Not published | Not published | U-0.30 |
| Gray | Depends | Depends | U-0.30 |
| Windham | Depends | Depends | U-0.30 |
| Standish | Depends | Depends | U-0.30 |
| New Gloucester | Depends | Depends | U-0.30 |
| Sebago | Not published | Not published | U-0.30 |
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Work we have done in Raymond
We have no finished work in Raymond to show you yet. This fills in as jobs land, and not before.
Common questions about Raymond
When were most of the homes in Raymond built?
23% went up in the 1960s and 1970s and 23% in the 1980s and 1990s; the median Raymond home dates from 1976, and 54% are older than 1980 (15% older than 1940). ACS 2020–2024.
Do I need a permit to re-side a house in Raymond?
Not for siding. Raymond'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. Raymond's building code page lists residing among the things you can do without a permit, and the town's Building Construction Ordinance (Chapter 400) exempts siding as cosmetic work. Next door in Casco, a re-side has no published rule.
What U-factor does a replacement window need in Raymond?
Maine sets it statewide, not Raymond: a U-factor of 0.30 or lower under the 2021 energy code Maine adopted, with no limit on solar heat gain. With 4,536 residents in the 2020 Census, Raymond is over the 4,000 mark at which Maine requires a town to enforce the state's building and energy code.
Do bedroom windows in Raymond have to meet the egress rule?
Yes. 68% of Raymond's homes have three or more bedrooms (median owner-estimated value $395,800), and each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening: at least 5.7 square feet of net clear opening (5 at a grade-floor sill), 24 inches high and 20 inches wide, with the sill no more than 44 inches above the floor (IRC R310).
Where these facts came from
Sources: raymondmaine.gov · raymondmaine.gov · raymondmaine.gov · raymondmaine.gov · raymondcode.portal.iworq.net · maine.gov · legislature.maine.gov
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