Siding Contractor Software in Maine

Maine's houses are old, and that is the siding market. Nearly a quarter of the state's 741,803 housing units were built before 1940, twice the national share, and more than a third before 1960. The Capes and farmhouses of York County and the midcoast have cedar clapboard or shingle under whatever went over them, often aluminum from the 1960s and hardboard from the 1970s. A full tear-off is the normal job, and a partial job lives or dies on matching what is already there. Cedar shingle still sells on the coast because it is what the houses wore, and vinyl owns the market inland on price and on the freeze and thaw. The salt air from Kittery to Eastport eats fasteners, so stainless is the spec.

Weather puts siding on claims. The windstorm of December 18, 2023 put 60 mile an hour gusts on the coast and left about 420,000 customers without power. The January 2024 storms put a record tide into Portland Harbor, and the ice storm of January 1998 is still the one everyone measures against. Maine has no deductible statute and no roofing-specific claim law, so siding on a claim runs on the general rules. The one that always applies is the Home Construction Contracts Act.

Maine does not license contractors, but any siding job over $3,000 has to be in a written contract signed by both sides. It lists the work and materials, the cost, the dates, the warranty, and a way to settle a dispute, and the down payment may not exceed one third of the price. A sale made in the home adds three business days to cancel.

The Uniform Building and Energy Code applies statewide, enforcement is mandatory in towns over 4,000 people, and the 2021 codes have applied since April 7, 2025. A re-side in Scarborough or Bangor is inspected, and one in a small town may not be. The season runs from May into October. Vinyl gets brittle below freezing, and the Maine winter stops a crew for months.