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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Middletown, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Middletown

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Middletown · Des Moines County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Middletown

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Middletown, Des Moines County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Middletown is a small Des Moines County town laid out in 1846, with the Iowa Ordnance Plant, now the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, established just south of town in November 1940.

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.

Middletown homes are inspected by a local partner in our Iowa network.  ·  Call or text (563) 517-7815

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Local housing

Homes in Middletown.

Middletown housing runs to houses from the years after the 1846 laying out, early-1900s frame homes, mid-1900s houses and later infill, across the compact townsite of about 0.55 square miles and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in Des Moines County — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Middletown

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 Middletown home. Middletown sits in Des Moines 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 Middletown-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.
Middletown was laid out in 1846. What should I expect from an older small-town house?
Older small-town houses have their own pattern. Houses here may be simple, modest in size and have been updated in pieces. Worth noting in these homes are the foundation and any crawl space or basement moisture, roof age, electrical panel and branch wiring, original plumbing materials, heating equipment and window condition, and unpermitted additions. If a lot has a private septic system, Iowa Code 455B.172 requires a time-of-transfer inspection. Des Moines County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so test the lowest level.
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