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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Guernsey, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Guernsey

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

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Guernsey · Poweshiek County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Guernsey

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Guernsey, Poweshiek County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Guernsey is a small village of older homes in eastern Poweshiek County.

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 Guernsey.

Guernsey housing runs to early-1900s farm-town homes with scattered postwar additions, across the village core, on rolling loess-mantled till of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Guernsey

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 Guernsey home. Guernsey sits in Poweshiek 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 Guernsey-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.
Do you cover Guernsey?
Guernsey is within our Montezuma team's range. Southern-Iowa drift-plain clay swells and shrinks with moisture, so foundation movement and grading lead most reports, and Iowa's Zone 1 radon standing makes a 48-hour test a smart add-on.
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