Reports within 24 hours · Get your free instant quote
11-Month Warranty Inspection · Blue Grass, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blue Grass

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blue Grass, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

Blue Grass · Scott County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blue Grass

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blue Grass, Scott County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Blue Grass is a southwestern Scott County town on Highway 61, platted in 1853 and incorporated in 1903 after a fire showed the need for fire equipment, named for the blue-tinged grass of Blue Grass Point.

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.

Blue Grass homes are inspected by a local partner in our Iowa network.  ·  Call or text (563) 517-7815

Two-story home with gabled roof and attached two-car garage — 11-Month Warranty Inspection in Blue Grass, IABlue Grass
Local housing

Homes in Blue Grass.

Blue Grass housing runs to houses from the years after the 1853 platting, a small early stock, then rapid growth from 568 residents in 1960 to 1,377 in 1980 and 1,666 in 2020, across the original 1853 plat, the five city parks including Fridley Memorial and Lamphere Park, and the newer growth areas and acreages around the town, on an undulating loess-mantled drift plain upland in southwestern Scott County and Muscatine County — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Blue Grass

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 Blue Grass home. Blue Grass sits in Scott 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 Blue Grass-area homes face.

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.
Blue Grass grew from 568 residents in 1960 to 1,666 in 2020. What should I check in a newer house here?
Newer houses have their own failure points. Grading and settlement around the foundation matter, especially on filled ground, along with window wells and sump discharge, roof flashing and attic ventilation, deck and porch attachment, and signs of rushed work such as missing flashing or loose fasteners. Houses from the 1970s and 1980s growth years get a closer look at the electrical panel and the age of the furnace and water heater. Scott County is EPA Radon Zone 1, and newer construction is not exempt, so test. A private septic system needs its time-of-transfer inspection under Iowa Code 455B.172.
Free instant quote

Build your quote in 30 seconds.

No phone tag, no callback delay. Price and book your inspection right here — it takes about 30 seconds and there is no obligation.

Free Instant Quote & SchedulerPowered by InspectorData
Free Instant Quote