Siding Contractor in Lowell, MA

Senco Home Services is a licensed siding contractor serving Lowell, MA. Lowell's housing is old, and a re-side here usually starts with what's under the old siding rather than the new one. Our crews strip it, fix what they find, waterproof every seam and corner, and back the work in writing. For our full materials and process, see the main siding page.

Re-Siding Lowell's Pre-War Houses

Census data puts the median Lowell home at 1942, and about half the city's housing units are in buildings from before 1940. A house that old can be wearing its second or third exterior, with older siding left on underneath and trim that's been patched and painted for decades. We take it down to a surface we can trust, repair the sheathing and rotted trim, and detail the windows, doors and corners before any new siding goes up. Get a free siding quote to see what it would cost on your building.

Historic Districts: What We Check First

The Lowell Historic Board reviews work in 11 districts: Downtown, the Acre, Andover Street, Belvidere Hill, Livingston-Harvard, Rogers Fort Hill Park, South Common, Tyler Park, Wannalancit Street, Washington Square and Wilder Street. The rules aren't the same in all of them. Downtown's standards go furthest, down to roofing materials. The nine neighborhood districts' 2012 standards focus on demolition and new construction, and for new buildings they prefer natural materials and rate fiber cement and cellular PVC trim ahead of vinyl and aluminum. The board's advice is to ask its staff, so if your building is in a district, we do that before we quote materials.

Siding Materials We Install in Lowell

A three-family on a corner lot and a single-family cape don't always want the same siding. We'll walk you through the trade-offs for your building before you decide.

Local Siding, Not a Sales Pitch

Lowell's Siding Contractor, Ten Minutes Up Route 38

Senco is based at 1150 Main St in Tewksbury. Main Street turns into Rogers Street at the Lowell line, about 5 miles and 10 minutes from the shop. Parts of Belvidere and South Lowell were Tewksbury land until 1888 and 1906.

We cover all eight of Lowell's neighborhoods: the Acre, Back Central, Belvidere, Centralville, Downtown, the Highlands, Pawtucketville and South Lowell. About a quarter of the city's housing units are in two-family and three- and four-unit buildings, which means more wall, more stories and more trim per job than a typical single-family. We stage it, schedule it with the owner, and quote it as the building it is.

Lowell requires a building permit for siding from the Division of Development Services at City Hall, 375 Merrimack Street, 2nd floor, Room 55 (978-674-4144). The city's published fee is $50 for the first $1,000 of cost, plus $10 for each additional $1,000. We pull it as part of the job, and if the building is in a historic district, we talk to the Historic Board's staff on the same floor first.

Freeze-thaw cycles and driving rain work on old clapboard and first-generation vinyl until the seams open and water gets behind the wall. So every siding job we run starts with waterproofing at the seams, corners and window trim.

Tewksbury is home base, and we cover the cities and towns around it:

• Tewksbury · HQ
• Billerica
• Wilmington
• Andover
• North Andover
• Chelmsford
• Lowell
• Dracut
• Reading
• North Reading
• Burlington
• Methuen