Siding Contractor in Somerville, MA

Somerville (02143) is in Middlesex County, about 48 miles east of our Charlton shop, a run our crews make regularly. It is the 93rd closest of the 109 towns we serve, and 8 miles from the coast. The towns next to it are Cambridge (1 mi), Medford (2 mi), Malden (3 mi), Arlington (3 mi), Brookline (4 mi). From the shop it is 52 road miles to the centre of Somerville, about 74 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 Somerville sits about 104 feet above sea level, 781 feet lower than our shop. Somerville, 8 miles from the water, is in that group.

The Census counts 37,756 homes in Somerville. The typical one was built in 1938, which makes Somerville's housing the 3rd oldest of the 109 towns we serve; 69% went up before 1960 and 80% before 1980. 34% are lived in by their owners, and 64% 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 Somerville, Cambridge sits closest to the coast at 8 miles and Belmont farthest at 12; Watertown is the nearest of them to our shop (43 mi) and Melrose the farthest (51 mi). Brookline is across the line in Norfolk County. Belmont has the oldest housing of them (typical 1938) and Stoneham the newest (1964).