Holden's Roofing & Exterior Contractor
Pond camps, wooded lots, and the newer neighborhoods off the Bar Harbor Road — roofs, siding, windows, doors, decks, and gutters built for the first town east of Brewer.
Where the Bar Harbor Road Turns Into Home
Holden is where Bangor and Brewer go home at night — the first town east on Route 1A, where the businesses at East Holden give way to wooded lots, hayfields, and ponds. The housing runs three ways at once: camps on Holbrook Pond, Fields Pond, and Brewer Lake that became year-round houses one addition at a time; farmhouses and older homes on the rural roads off Route 46; and subdivisions of colonials and ranches that went up as the town grew. Each one asks something different of its roof and its walls.
Shaded Roofs, Open Water, Real Snow
Holden is inland and hilly, and most lots sit in the trees. A roof under pines holds snow and drips melt onto a cold eave, which is how ice dams start; a house on the pond takes wind and damp straight off the water instead. Ventilation, ice-and-water membrane, edge fastening, and drainage behind the siding get set for the lot the house is on — not for a generic Maine.
Half an Hour From Winterport, Documented Start to Finish
Restorations Roofing & Exteriors reaches Holden through Bangor and Brewer on Route 1A, or up Route 46 from Bucksport — about half an hour either way. Consultations schedule within days, and every project runs the way all of ours do: a documented scope in JobTread, progress photos as the work happens, and the price you approve is the price you pay.
Start with a walkthrough of the camp, the farmhouse, or the colonial — we scope the exterior you actually have.
Schedule a ConsultationSix Services for Holden Homes
A camp that became a house, a farmhouse on the Route 46 side, a colonial in a newer neighborhood — the whole exterior works better designed together. Explore what we bring to Holden:
Roofing
Replacement and repair on pond camps, farmhouse ells, and subdivision colonials — detailed for tree-shaded snow and ice dams.
Custom Siding
Cladding that stands up to woods damp and pond-side wind, with trim that fits the house it's on.
Replacement Windows
Tight, square replacements for a camp's mismatched sash or a nineties colonial's fogged units.
Entry & Patio Doors
Entries and sliders sealed for a wooded lot's cold — hung square in frames that have settled.
Custom Decks
Decks that face the pond or the field — frost-depth footings, framed for snow that sits until April.
Seamless Gutters
Seamless runs sized for melt off long eaves and routed away from the foundation on sloped lots.
Roof Replacement and Repair in Holden
Holden roofs fail in a few recognizable ways: a camp roof that was never meant for year-round snow, a farmhouse ell with layers on it, and subdivision shingles that hit twenty years all at once. At Restorations Roofing & Exteriors we replace and repair roofs across Holden in architectural shingles and standing seam metal, with the assembly built for how much shade and snow the roof actually sees.
Built for a Roof in the Trees
Tree cover keeps a roof cold at the eave while the house warms the ridge, and that mix builds ice dams. Ice-and-water membrane run well past the wall line, ventilation that keeps the deck cold, and a drip edge that sheds into the gutter instead of behind it — the scope names each one, so you know what's up there.
What's Under the Shingles
Older Holden farmhouses and camps often carry more than one layer of shingles, and sometimes plank sheathing with gaps between the boards. We tell you before the tear-off what we expect and photograph what we find, so the deck gets fixed once.
Siding Replacement in Holden
Clapboard on an old farmhouse, cedar shingles on a camp, vinyl on a colonial gone chalky on the south wall — Holden has all three, often on the same road. Restorations Roofing & Exteriors re-sides homes across town in fiber cement, premium vinyl, and wood where the house calls for it, with corner boards and window casings sized to the house instead of the catalog.
Dry Behind the Wall
Woods lots stay damp and pond lots take wind-driven rain, so the wall behind the siding matters as much as the face: housewrap lapped right, flashing tied into every window and door, and a drainage gap so the wall dries out after every storm.
The South Wall Goes First
On an open Holden lot the south and west walls take the sun and the weather; vinyl chalks and wood checks there years before the north side does. We scope wall by wall so the money goes where the damage is.
Replacement Windows in Holden
A camp that grew into a house usually has four kinds of windows in it, none of them square; a nineties colonial has one kind, fogging in pairs. At Restorations Roofing & Exteriors we replace windows across Holden with units installed square and air-sealed — full-frame where the old frame is done, insert where it's sound — sized to the openings the house already has.
Worst Openings First, Whole House When You're Ready
Per-opening scoping means the drafty north wall gets done this fall and the rest waits for the budget — and the flashing on each unit ties into the siding, so the two jobs work as one wall when both are done.
Matching a Camp's Mismatched Sash
Where a camp grew in stages, we size the replacements so the openings finally read as one house — same sightlines, same grille pattern — without rebuilding every rough opening.
Entry and Patio Doors in Holden
The door that takes the traffic in Holden is usually the one off the driveway or the slider facing the pond, and both leak air long before they fail. Restorations Roofing & Exteriors installs entry and patio doors across Holden with the sill, frame, and flashing treated as the real project — fiberglass and wood entries, sliding and hinged patio doors sized to the opening.
Square in a Frame That Has Moved
Camps and old farmhouses settle, and a stock door hung in a racked frame never seals. We shim and square the frame, set the threshold to the finished floor, and weatherstrip so the first north wind stays outside — most replacements finish in a day.
The Slider Facing the Pond
A patio door looking at Holbrook Pond or Brewer Lake takes wind-driven rain every storm. A sill pan flashed into the wall and a unit rated for the exposure keep the floor inside dry.
Deck Building in Holden
Holden decks look at water more often than most — Holbrook Pond, Fields Pond, Brewer Lake — or out over a field toward the hills. At Restorations Roofing & Exteriors we design and build decks across town in wood and composite, engineered for frost depth, the snow that sits on them from December to April, and stairs that land where you actually walk down to the shore.
Footings Below Frost, Ledgers Into the Wall
Sloped lots and ledge near the ponds change how a deck is founded, so footings are set to the site, ledgers are flashed into the wall rather than bolted over the siding, and railings are built for a wind coming across open water.
Stairs to the Shore
A pond-side deck usually needs stairs and a landing that follow the slope to the water. We frame them into the design from the start, with footings set to the grade, instead of adding a set later.
Seamless Gutters in Holden
Long farmhouse eaves and colonial rooflines carry a lot of meltwater a long way, and on a sloped Holden lot it wants to run straight at the foundation. Restorations Roofing & Exteriors forms seamless gutters on site, sized from your actual roof area and pitch, with downspouts routed to daylight away from the house.
Sized for April, Anchored for Snow Slide
Continuous runs with joints only at the corners, hangers spaced for snow sliding off a metal roof, and guards where the maples and pines justify them — drainage built as part of the exterior, not bolted on later.
Downspouts to Daylight
On a sloped lot the water has somewhere to go — we route downspouts to daylight downhill, away from the foundation and the walk, so the spring melt ends up in the woods instead of the basement.
What Our Customers Say on Google
Detailed for shaded roofs, pond-side wind, and Holden snow — from a crew half an hour away.
Schedule a ConsultationWhy Holden Homeowners Choose Restorations Roofing
Holden is regular territory for Restorations Roofing & Exteriors — the far side of the Bangor loop, on the way to the coast. The homeowners here mostly own the place and plan to stay in it, and they want the exterior done once and documented.
Camps That Became Houses, Handled Honestly
A lot of Holden's pond-side homes started as three-season camps and grew a room at a time. We expect the surprises that come with that — undersized rafters, an ell with no overhang, a wall with no housewrap — photograph what we find, and price changes in writing before we go on.
Repair When Repair Solves It
A camp roof that leaks at one valley or a colonial with one bad wall doesn't need a whole-house sale. We show you what we found in photos, price the repair and the replacement, and tell you which one we'd do on our own house.
A Documented Price, Not a Guess
Every project starts with a documented scope: what we're doing, what it costs, and what happens if we find something under the old layers. The price you approve is the price you pay — changes only happen in writing, with your sign-off.
Your Project, Documented in JobTread
From consultation to final walkthrough, your Holden project lives in one portal — schedule, photos, documents, and approvals, visible from anywhere.
Clarity From First Walkthrough to Final Photo
No wondering what was decided, when the crew arrives, or what that line item covers. Everything about the project sits in one place, updated as the work happens — the way exterior contracting should run.
- Documented scope and pricing before work begins
- Project schedule you can check anytime
- Progress photos as the work happens
- Every document in one place — proposal to warranty
- Changes approved in writing, never assumed
- Message the team with everything on the record
One consultation. One documented price. One crew for the whole exterior.
Schedule a ConsultationServing Holden and Communities Across Central and Coastal Maine
Holden sits between our Bangor and Brewer routes and the road down to Bucksport — Orono, Hermon, and Veazie are on the same loop from Winterport.
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Holden Exterior Questions, Answered
What Holden homeowners ask before starting exterior work.
How Far Is Holden from Your Shop?
About half an hour. We come up Route 1A through Bangor and Brewer, or across the river and up Route 46 from Bucksport. Consultations schedule within days, and when weather makes something urgent we can usually get eyes on it quickly.
Our House on the Pond Started as a Camp — Can You Make the Roof and Walls Work as One House?
Yes. Camps that grew into year-round homes usually have two or three roof planes that meet badly and walls built in different decades. We scope each plane and wall, fix the assemblies where they meet, and document the whole thing in JobTread so a patchwork house gets one clear price.
Why Do I Get Ice Dams When My Neighbor Doesn't?
Usually trees and attic heat. A roof shaded by pines stays cold at the eave while heat from the house warms the ridge, so melt runs down and freezes at the edge. The fix lives on the roof — ventilation and membrane, sometimes attic insulation — and we'll tell you which before selling you anything.
Do You Take on the Farmhouses and Barns on the Rural Roads, or Just the Newer Neighborhoods?
Both, and the old ones are the interesting work. A farmhouse with an ell and a barn is several roofs and several walls built in different decades; we walk all of it, tell you what can wait, and price what can't.
If We're Re-Siding, Should We Replace the Windows at the Same Time?
If the windows are near the end of their life, yes — with the wall open, the flashing ties the new units into the housewrap and the two jobs become one wall system. If the windows are sound, we flash around them and leave them. You'll see both paths priced.