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11-Month Warranty Inspection · New London, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in New London

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New London · Henry County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in New London

11-Month Warranty Inspection in New London, Henry County, by Closer Look Inspectors. New London is a Henry County city first called Dover for founder Abraham C. Dover, who arrived from Illinois in 1833.

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.

New London 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 New London.

New London housing runs to houses from the decades after the 1830s settlement, early-1900s frame homes, a postwar stock and later infill, across the older downtown blocks with historic commercial buildings and the residential streets around them, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in Henry County — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in New London

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 New London home. New London sits in Henry 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 New London-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.
New London has several historic buildings. What changes when I buy an older building or a converted one?
An older building needs a wider look. New London has four properties on the National Register of Historic Places, including McClellan's General Store and the Smith and Weller Building, and older commercial buildings often have been altered over time. In an older or converted building, the roof and flashing, masonry condition, structural framing, the age and capacity of the electrical service, plumbing materials and any change of use are the things to watch. For a house, we add drainage and basement checks. Henry County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so a radon test belongs in the review.
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