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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Bridgewater, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Bridgewater

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Bridgewater · Adair County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Bridgewater

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Bridgewater, Adair County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Bridgewater is a very small Adair County town that started in 1885 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended there, incorporated in 1905.

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 Bridgewater.

Bridgewater housing runs to a small stock of houses from the years after the 1885 railroad and 1905 incorporation, with a peak of 365 residents in 1910, plus postwar and newer homes, across the compact townsite of about 0.29 square miles and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in Adair County — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Bridgewater

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 Bridgewater home. Bridgewater sits in Adair 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 Bridgewater-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.
If a Bridgewater property has its own well and septic, what do you test and inspect?
Small towns and the acreages around them often run on private systems, so we ask early. For a septic system, Iowa Code 455B.172 requires an inspection before the property transfers, and tank access, the field area and any signs of surfacing or odor are the things to watch. For a private well, the wellhead and pressure tank matter, and a lab water test for bacteria and nitrates is recommended. Bridgewater is small, about 0.29 square miles, so confirm where the lines run on the lot. Adair County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so add a radon test.
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