Siding Contractor in Bucksport, ME

Most of our Bucksport work comes from owners of capes, New Englanders and former mill housing, plus people on rural lots out toward Orland who bought a place that had been covered over once already.

They tend to call when something has started to smell or stain rather than when the exterior looks tired, and that is usually the right instinct.

On a damp house we do things differently by opening it right up. We pull everything back to the sheathing so the wall can be seen and dried, then build the assembly back in the right order with a drainage plane behind the new material.

That plane is the whole point. It gives any water that gets past the surface somewhere to go and a way out, instead of a cavity to sit in.

We work throughout town, from the waterfront streets and the older housing near the center out to the long rural drives toward Orland, Verona Island and Prospect.

Waterfront and camp properties bring shoreland review into it, and rural addresses bring delivery access, which we would rather look at in April than discover in November.

You should book Bucksport siding work for late spring through early fall, since walls opened in a damp, cold week take longer to dry and hold up the whole schedule.

If you already have visible water damage, call regardless of season. We can stabilize a section and stage the full job for the following spring.

The Penobscot valley is hard on exteriors because of damp air first. Fog and cold air drainage keep surfaces wet here longer than a few miles inland, so any assembly that cannot dry outward will eventually fail.

Freeze-thaw is the second. Wet material that freezes hard overnight moves, and that movement opens the joints that let in the next round of water.

Ground moisture is the third. Many of these houses sit over unvented crawlspaces, and moisture rising from below reaches the bottom of the wall from the inside as well.

Ask directly whether they intend to remove the existing siding or go over it. If the answer is over it, ask what the wall is supposed to do with the water already in there.

Then ask what barrier goes on behind the new material and how it drains. A contractor who can answer that clearly has thought about your house rather than their schedule.

Removal and replacement costs more than covering a third layer on. It also stops you paying twice, because a covered-over wall usually comes due within a decade.

We price the tear-off, the disposal and a written allowance for sheathing repair as separate lines, so you can see exactly what the honest version is buying you.