Reports within 24 hours · Get your free instant quote
Closer Look InspectorsStatewide Minnesota & IowaFree Instant Quote
11-Month Warranty Inspection · Collins, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Collins

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

Get Your Free Instant QuoteSee What's Included
Collins · Story County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Collins

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Collins, Story County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Collins is a Story County farm town of older homes laid out by the Milwaukee Land Company, and we calibrate every visit to that.

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.

Collins is served by our Des Moines team →

Two-storey home with lit windows in fresh snow at dusk — 11-Month Warranty Inspection in Collins, IACollins
Calibrated

Tuned to Collins.

Collins housing runs to late-1800s and early-1900s farm-town homes from the 1882 Milwaukee Land Company plat, with postwar and newer additions, across the original 1882 town grid and the Story County farm ground around it, on the eastern edge of the Des Moines Lobe country, younger and flatter till than the dissected drift plain south of here, with correspondingly slower natural drainage — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Collins

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 Collins home. Collins sits in Story 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 we calibrate every Collins visit to find.

See all Collins inspections →  ·  More about 11-month warranty inspection →

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.
Do flat lots around Collins cause basement problems?
Flat ground is its own drainage problem. Collins was laid out by the Milwaukee Land Company in 1882 on eastern Story County ground that is markedly flatter and younger than the deeply creased drift plain further south, and flat till sheds water slowly — so instead of slope failures you get standing water against the foundation, saturated backfill and sump pumps doing real work every spring. We read grading and downspout discharge first, then the foundation walls for seepage staining and efflorescence, then the sump itself: discharge location, check valve, and whether it has a backup.
Keep looking

More across Iowa.

11-Month Warranty Inspection nearby

Other inspections in Collins

Questions about 11-month warranty inspection

In-depth guides

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