Siding Contractor in Brookline, MA

Brookline (02445) is in Norfolk County, about 45 miles east of our Charlton shop, a run our crews make regularly. It is the 86th closest of the 109 towns we serve, and 8 miles from the coast. The towns next to it are Cambridge (3 mi), Somerville (4 mi), Watertown (4 mi), Newton (5 mi), Belmont (5 mi). From the shop it is 51 road miles to the centre of Brookline, about 73 minutes without traffic, mostly on I-90, Route 9 and Route 20.

Towns a few miles in from the coast get the worst of both: salt carried on an onshore wind and a full freeze-thaw winter, which keeps opening the seams the salt is working on. The centre of Brookline sits about 26 feet above sea level, 859 feet lower than our shop. Brookline, 8 miles from the water, is in that group.

The Census counts 28,873 homes in Brookline. The typical one was built in 1938, which makes Brookline's housing the 2nd oldest of the 109 towns we serve; 65% went up before 1960 and 86% before 1980. 47% are lived in by their owners, and 42% are in two- to four-family buildings, the three-deckers and two-families this part of Massachusetts is known for. With most of the housing built before 1980, many of these walls are on their second or third exterior, and lead-safe work practices matter: federal EPA rules apply to disturbing paint on homes built before 1978.

Around Brookline, Milton sits closest to the coast at 7 miles and Needham farthest at 15; Needham is the nearest of them to our shop (39 mi) and Medford the farthest (48 mi). Cambridge and Watertown and Somerville and Newton and Belmont and Arlington and Medford and Waltham are across the line in Middlesex County. Somerville has the oldest housing of them (typical 1938) and Needham the newest (1965).