Lighting Installation in Yarmouth, Maine

Yarmouth Homes and What They Need

Yarmouth's housing is among the oldest in this part of the county. Census estimates put the median year built at 1973, about one in five homes predates 1940 and roughly two-thirds were built before 1980. Main Street, between the Upper Village and Lower Falls, is lined with captains' houses and 19th-century homes from the town's shipbuilding era, and the town counts a dozen properties on the National Register of Historic Places. Cousins and Littlejohn islands add shorefront houses and former summer cottages. Yarmouth also has far more variety than towns to the north, with about a quarter of its units in attached houses, condominiums and apartment buildings. Old village houses commonly have cast-iron radiators, plaster walls and nowhere easy to run ductwork, which is why boiler service and replacement is often the first heating decision here, rather than adding a ducted system.

Power, Storms and Wiring in Yarmouth

Central Maine Power delivers Yarmouth's electricity, and the town is also home to one of Maine's largest power plants: Wyman Station on Cousins Island, an oil-fired plant of more than 800 megawatts that now runs mainly at times of peak demand and added battery storage in 2016. Having a big plant in town does not protect neighbourhood lines, though. Coastal wind and ice bring down trees along island and shore roads, and in the December 2023 wind and rain storm Cumberland County had the most outages of any county in the state. Yarmouth commutes are short: Census data show roughly three-quarters of workers who commute travel under half an hour, well within the range of any electric car. A home EV charger in an older house usually starts with a check of the service and panel, and whole-house surge protection is worth adding.

Getting to Know Yarmouth