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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Maxwell, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Maxwell

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

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Maxwell · Story County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Maxwell

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Maxwell, Story County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Maxwell is a small Indian Creek farm town of older frame homes southeast of Ames, 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.

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Tuned to Maxwell.

Maxwell housing runs to older frame farm-town homes, across the town core along Indian Creek, on lobe till along the Indian Creek 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 Maxwell

Maxwell sits on Des Moines Lobe till — heavy, poorly drained clay that holds water against foundations and moves with moisture, which is what drives basement seepage and foundation cracking across central Iowa. Maxwell 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 Maxwell visit to find.

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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 Maxwell?
Yes — southeast Story County is in range. The older frame stock concentrates its findings in services, roofs and foundations, and lots toward the Indian Creek bottoms get the grading and moisture read first.
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