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11-Month Warranty Inspection · McClelland, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in McClelland

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McClelland · Pottawattamie County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in McClelland

11-Month Warranty Inspection in McClelland, Pottawattamie County, by Closer Look Inspectors. McClelland is a very small Pottawattamie County town established in 1903 when the Great Western Railroad was extended to Council Bluffs, in Hardin Township.

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 McClelland.

McClelland housing runs to a small stock of houses from the years after the 1903 railroad, with early-1900s frame homes, postwar houses and a few newer builds, and the town's peak of 177 residents in 1980, across the compact townsite of about 0.27 square miles and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-mantled upland ground in Hardin Township of Pottawattamie County — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in McClelland

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 McClelland home. McClelland sits in Pottawattamie 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 McClelland-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.
McClelland covers about a quarter square mile. What does a town that small mean for septic and wells?
In a town this small, utilities are often limited, so it is worth confirming how each property is served. If a house has its own septic system, Iowa Code 455B.172 requires an inspection of it before the property transfers, and on a small lot the field location is worth confirming. For a private well, the wellhead, pressure tank and any signs of water quality problems are worth noting, and a water test is worth asking for. Roof runoff and grade matter too. Pottawattamie County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so a radon test is a good add-on.
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