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Cost to Remodel a House in Augusta, ME: Add Up the Rooms
The cost to remodel a house in Augusta, ME is assembled from rooms, not a whole-house rate. Kitchen, bath, and addition bands plus the systems.
Cost to Build a Garage in Augusta, ME: The 2026 Numbers
The real cost to build a garage in Augusta, ME: $132 to $162 a square foot turnkey for a shell, bay-by-bay ranges, and why a 24x24 costs under a 22x22.
Cost to Build a Deck in Augusta, ME: The 2026 Numbers
The real cost to build a deck in Augusta, ME: $80 a square foot pressure treated, $10,000 project floor, and why a small deck costs more per foot.
Cost to Remodel a Kitchen in Augusta, ME: The 2026 Bands
The real cost to remodel a kitchen in Augusta, ME: $28,000 for a refresh, $46,000 to $58,000 for a standard gut, $85,000 to $105,000 for a layout change.
Cost to Remodel a Bathroom in Augusta, ME: The 2026 Bands
The real cost to remodel a bathroom in Augusta, ME: a $12,000 floor, $18,000 to $25,000 for a larger bath, and why tile choice is a labor decision.
Cost to Replace a Roof in Augusta, ME: The 2026 Numbers
The real cost to replace a roof in Augusta, ME: $6.00 to $9.50 a square foot for asphalt, $11.00 to $16.00 for standing seam, and what moves the number.
Cost to Replace Siding in Augusta, ME: The 2026 Numbers
The real cost to replace siding in Augusta, ME: $6.00 a square foot of wall for vinyl up to $20.00 for cedar, plus what the tear-off usually finds.
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Newman Homes publishes a cost guide for each of the projects people price-shop most: decks, garages, roofs, siding, kitchens, bathrooms, whole-house remodels and new construction.
Every guide is written for Augusta and Central Maine specifically, with the local variables in it rather than a national average. Frost depth, ledge, shoreline rules and what tear-off actually turns up on a house built before 1978.
The point of the whole set is that the numbers are on the page. Not a form, not a range you have to call for. Read the guide for your project, and you will know roughly where you land before anyone comes out.
The Newman Homes blog is eight cost guides, and each one publishes real numbers rather than telling you it depends.
Every guide is updated for 2026 and carries the same rates we quote from.
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New Home Costs
$270 to $400 per square foot turnkey, plus the five site drivers that actually decide where you land.
What Is on the Newman Homes Blog
Cost to Replace a Roof
$6.00 to $9.50 a square foot for asphalt, $11.00 to $16.00 for standing seam, and the ice barrier line most bids get wrong.
Cost to Replace Siding
$6.00 a square foot of wall for vinyl up to $20.00 for cedar, and how to measure your own house.
Cost to Remodel a Kitchen
Five bands from a $28,000 refresh to a $105,000 layout change, and the three things that move you up one.
Cost to Remodel a Bathroom
A $12,000 floor, priced per bathroom, and why tile choice is really a labor decision.
Cost to Remodel a House
No whole-house rate exists, so this one shows you how to assemble your own number from room prices.
Cost to Build a Garage
$132 to $162 a square foot for a shell, and the arithmetic showing a 24x24 costs less than a 22x22.
Cost to Build a Deck
$80 a square foot pressure treated, and why shrinking a deck almost never saves what people expect.
Why We Publish Prices
Because the alternative is making you call to find out whether you can afford us, and that wastes your afternoon and ours.
Every band in these guides is a qualifying range averaged across hundreds of estimates. Your project lands to one side of it, and the guide tells you which side and why.
Questions the Guides Do Not Answer
Call (207) 480-7700 and ask. The guides give you bands, and a real number needs somebody looking at your house.
When They Get Updated
Every January. The URLs never change, the year in the title does, and the rates get rechecked against what we are actually quoting.