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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Blanchard, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blanchard

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Blanchard · Page County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blanchard

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blanchard, Page County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Blanchard is a very small Page County town laid out in 1879 and incorporated in 1880, with a small section of the city reaching across the Missouri line.

An 11-month warranty inspection times a full review to the end of a builder's first-year warranty — so the settlement cracks, nail pops and grading issues a first Iowa winter reveals get repaired on the builder's dime.

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Local housing

Homes in Blanchard.

Blanchard housing runs to houses from the years after the 1879 laying out and 1880 incorporation, a stock built toward the town's 1900 peak of 520 residents, and a few later homes, across the compact townsite of about 0.2 square miles and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in Page County, along the Iowa-Missouri border — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Blanchard

No Iowa law requires a home inspection before a sale — the one mandatory time-of-transfer inspection covers private septic systems (Iowa Code 455B.172) — which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on a Blanchard home. Blanchard sits in Page County, and every Iowa county is EPA Radon Zone 1. Iowa HHS reports Iowa has the largest percentage of homes above the 4.0 pCi/L action level of any state — 71.6 percent in the Iowa Radon Survey — and the Iowa seller disclosure form asks for any known radon test results. Finished basements concentrate it, and only a 48-hour test gives you this home's number. Iowa leaves frost depth to the local building code rather than one statewide number, and the annual freeze-thaw cycle drives the settlement cracks and ice-dam wear that Blanchard-area homes face.

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Questions

Common questions.

When exactly do I schedule it?
Around month eleven, leaving time to file the report before the one-year warranty closes.
What does it find?
Issues a full freeze-thaw cycle exposes — cracking, nail pops, and HVAC and grading items.
Blanchard touches the Missouri line. Does a parcel on the state border change the inspection or the paperwork?
The condition of the house matters the same on either side of the line, but it is worth confirming which side the house and any septic system sit on, because Iowa Code 455B.172 sets a time-of-transfer septic inspection for private systems in Iowa. Ask your closing agent and the county about the parcel's legal description and records. Roof, foundation, grade, mechanical systems, wiring and plumbing matter here as usual. Page County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so a radon test belongs in the basement review. Keep any records for the Iowa side separate from those for any Missouri property.
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