Siding Contractor in Rockland, ME

We take on owners of the dense downtown Rockland stock, the sea captain houses on the north end, and the postwar places out toward Owls Head, and most of them have owned the house long enough to be curious about what is under it.

Landlords call us too, usually because a layered wall has finally started leaking into a unit and patching it has stopped working.

Removal actually involves more care here than a tear-off elsewhere. We test where the material warrants it, plan disposal properly, and take the layers off in order rather than all at once so the house is never open more than it needs to be.

Underneath, the original clapboard is often in better condition than anything covering it, and the sheathing tells us in an afternoon what the rest of the job will cost.

We work across the whole of Rockland, from the Main Street blocks and the harbor side to the residential streets running back from the water and out toward Thomaston and Owls Head.

Downtown lots are tight enough that staging, parking and a dumpster all have to be worked out before we start, which is a conversation we prefer to have during the estimate.

Rockland work should be booked for May into October, because removal wants dry weather and a settled forecast. Anything involving testing needs lead time on top of that.

If a wall is leaking now, we will stabilize it in any season and schedule the full job properly rather than rushing a bad November tear-off.

Rockland exteriors are harder than they look because of the layers, and those are the reason a quote given from the sidewalk here is worth very little.

Salt is the second. Full bay exposure works on fasteners and finishes hard, and every one of those historic layers was fixed on with whatever was cheapest at the time.

Ledge and lot size are the third. Shallow ledge and tight urban parcels limit where we can stage and where material can be stored, and both cost hours.

Ask what they will do if they hit cement shingle, and listen for whether testing is mentioned. That answer tells you how the rest of the job will be handled.

Then ask where the debris is going and how the site gets cleaned each day. On a lot this size, that is your neighbors' experience of the project as well as yours.

Disposal and labor drive the number more than the new material does, and a wall carrying three layers costs meaningfully more to strip than a wall carrying one.

We price the investigation, the removal and the new exterior as separate stages so you are never asked to approve a figure that was really a guess.