Terms and Conditions

These terms took effect on October 28, 2026, and were last revised that day.

By browsing or using this website, you agree to the terms below. Each project we build has its own signed contract, and these terms never override it.

Who Runs This Site

General Contractor Portland is a home builder and remodeler serving Portland, Maine, and 21 surrounding towns from an office on Gray Road in Gorham. The company is part of Legacy Construction, which handles every request made through this site.

Every "we", "us" and "our" in these terms stands for General Contractor Portland and Legacy Construction together. "You" refers to each person who uses the site.

Who May Use the Site

You must be an adult, 18 or older, to use this site. Using it tells us you are.

Acceptable Use

We built the site to explain building and remodeling and to let you describe your property and your plans. Please give truthful details and contact information that is yours, and do not hack, flood or otherwise abuse the site.

What the Prices on This Site Mean

The prices on our pages are averages gathered from many projects, there so you can check a budget against them. They are never an offer, a bid or a quote for your lot or your house.

What your own project costs turns on what we find at the property, from site work like a well, septic or ledge to the finish tier, the size, the layout and the condition behind old walls. The only price that binds anyone is the fixed price in a contract we both sign.

Estimate Requests

An estimate request is free, and it binds neither side. An estimate turns into an agreement once both sides sign a contract.

We may turn away a request from outside the towns we serve, or one for work outside our scope. Our scope leaves out roof-only, siding-only and window-only jobs, decks by themselves, handyman repairs and commercial buildings.

Contracts and Deposits Under Maine Law

Under Maine's 10 MRSA §1487, a written contract signed by both the homeowner and the contractor is required on every home construction job over $3,000 in labor or materials, and each of them receives a copy before work begins. The statute also sets one third of the total price as the most a down payment may be.

The scope, the plans, the fixed price and the payment schedule all come from your signed contract, not from this site. Any change to the price is made in writing, through a change order.

Warranties

This website makes no warranty and no guarantee. Your project's signed contract spells out our workmanship warranty, which runs five years in writing, and products come with whatever warranties their makers publish.

Licensing in Maine

General contractors hold no state license in Maine, which leaves none for us to present. Licensed plumbers and electricians do the plumbing and electrical work on our projects, as state law requires.

The protection Maine does give a homeowner on a job over $3,000 is that signed, written contract.

Permits, Codes and Local Review

Each town decides for itself whether a project needs a building permit and whether to grant one. Where a permit is required, we apply for it, but the Code Enforcement Officer decides on approval, and we never promise it.

Under MUBEC, Maine's building and energy code is mandatory in towns of 4,000 or more people, while smaller towns can choose to adopt it. Portland also requires a Certificate of Appropriateness before any exterior change, seen from a public way, to a building in one of its local historic districts.

Lots close to great ponds, rivers, tidal water or coastal wetlands may sit in a shoreland zone governed by Maine's shoreland zoning program. Those rules can restrict where a house or an addition goes on the lot.

Schedules and Dates

Under the same law, the contract also has to estimate when work will start and when it will be substantially complete. Weather, a long-lead order, ledge under a foundation or a change you ask for can still shift a schedule.

A custom home typically needs 10 to 14 months between the foundation and the final walkthrough, and that is a typical span, not a commitment. No page on this site promises you a start or finish date.

General Information, Not Advice

Our pages about foundations, septic systems, shoreland rules, permits and prices offer general information only. None of it is engineering, legal or code advice, and none of it substitutes for a visit to your property.

Code questions about a particular property go to that town's Code Enforcement Officer, whose ruling is final.

Text Message Terms

Once you opt in to texts on one of our forms, these terms apply to them.

• Topics: your estimate request, and your project if you become a customer.
• Charges: message and data rates may apply, and message frequency varies with the project.
• Opting out: text STOP to end our messages and receive one confirming reply, or text HELP for help.

Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You never have to accept texts in order to buy from us.

See our Privacy Policy for how your number and your consent are treated.

Our Content

Copyright may cover the words and photos on this site. Please get our permission before reusing them anywhere else.

Links to Other Sites

We link to town code offices, the Maine Legislature and various state and federal agencies. Those sites are outside our control, and their content is their own responsibility.

Limitation of Liability

As far as Maine law permits, we bear no liability for indirect, incidental or consequential losses arising out of this site or out of reliance on its general information. A signed contract, not this limit, governs the work done under it.

Changes to These Terms

We can revise these terms when the need arises, and whatever version is posted here governs. Continued use after a revision counts as acceptance of the new version.

Governing Law

These terms are interpreted under Maine law. Disputes about this website belong in the state or federal courts of Maine.

Questions

Send questions about these terms to [email protected], or reach us through the contact page.