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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Guthrie Center, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Guthrie Center

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

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Guthrie Center · Guthrie County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Guthrie Center

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Guthrie Center, Guthrie County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Guthrie Center is a small county seat in the South Raccoon valley hills.

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 Guthrie Center.

Guthrie Center housing runs to older county-seat homes in the valley hills, across the square district and the hillside blocks, on South Raccoon River valley hills — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Guthrie Center

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 Guthrie Center home. Guthrie Center sits in Guthrie 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 Guthrie Center-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 Guthrie Center?
Yes — Guthrie County is within range. Hillside lots above the South Raccoon concentrate runoff, so slope drainage and foundation movement lead, followed by the older stock's systems dated by age and Iowa's standing Zone 1 radon priority.
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