Window and siding replacement in Waterboro

Waterboro at a glance

People

8,055

Homes

3,544

Size

55.3 square miles

From downtown

About 24 miles west

ZIP codes

04087, 04061, 04030

Founded or incorporated

1787

Waterboro is a lake town on the Little Ossipee River: Little Ossipee Lake covers 564 acres, and Lake Arrowhead, created by land developers in the 1960s, is the largest subdivision in southern Maine. During the Great Fires of 1947 three-quarters of the town burned, including the town center and 90 percent of the cottages on Little Ossipee Lake.

The houses in Waterboro

In Waterboro, 43% of homes went up before 1980 and 6% before 1940; the median one dates from 1983. 90% are detached single-family houses, and owners live in 90% 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 $297,000, and 62% of homes have three bedrooms or more — each bedroom needs an emergency escape opening under the egress rule.

Half the homes in Waterboro 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 90% of occupied homes here against 77% county-wide, the median owner-estimated value is $297,000 here and $395,700 across the county and detached houses are 90% of the homes, above the county's 70%.

Rooms in the median home

5.3

Heated with gas / electricity

2% / 5%

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

7%

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.

The Lake Arrowhead Community, created by land developers in the 1960s, is the largest subdivision in southern Maine.

What that vintage turns up

The largest group of homes in Waterboro, 31% 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 South Waterboro, North Waterboro, East Waterboro, Waterboro Center, Lake Arrowhead, Ossipee Mills, Chadbournes Mills and Little Ossipee Lake.

Next door

Waterboro shares a boundary with Alfred, Lyman, Hollis, Limerick, Limington, Newfield and Shapleigh.

The rules in Waterboro

Who to call

Building dept

207-247-6166

Official

Jason Sevigny, Code Enforcement Officer

Permits

Department page

How Waterboro compares with its neighbors

All 29 York County places side by side →

Work we have done in Waterboro

Nothing completed in Waterboro so far. Rather than pad this out, we have left it blank until there is a real job to describe.

Common questions about Waterboro

Where these facts came from

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