Siding Contractor in Cambridge, MA

Cambridge (02138) is in Middlesex County, about 47 miles east of our Charlton shop, a run our crews make regularly. It is the 89th closest of the 109 towns we serve, and 8 miles from the coast. The towns next to it are Somerville (1 mi), Brookline (3 mi), Medford (3 mi), Watertown (4 mi), Arlington (4 mi). From the shop it is 51 road miles to the centre of Cambridge, about 71 minutes without traffic, mostly on I-90 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 Cambridge sits about 22 feet above sea level, 863 feet lower than our shop. Cambridge, 8 miles from the water, is in that group.

The Census counts 54,840 homes in Cambridge. The typical one was built in 1950, which makes Cambridge's housing the 13th oldest of the 109 towns we serve; 54% went up before 1960 and 68% before 1980. 33% are lived in by their owners, and 40% 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 Cambridge, Somerville sits closest to the coast at 8 miles and Waltham farthest at 14; Newton is the nearest of them to our shop (41 mi) and Malden the farthest (50 mi). Brookline is across the line in Norfolk County. Somerville has the oldest housing of them (typical 1938) and Waltham the newest (1961).