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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Thurman, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Thurman

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Thurman · Fremont County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Thurman

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Thurman, Fremont County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Thurman is a small Fremont County town that peaked at 409 residents in 1900 and was struck by a half-mile-wide EF-2 tornado on April 14, 2012.

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 Thurman.

Thurman housing runs to houses from the town's turn-of-the-century peak of 409 residents, with a lot of repaired or rebuilt homes after the April 2012 tornado damaged 75 to 90 percent of them, plus later infill, across the compact townsite of about 0.56 square miles, the streets close to Interstate 29, and the farm ground and acreages around it, on the Missouri River valley margin of Fremont County in southwest Iowa — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Thurman

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 Thurman home. Thurman sits in Fremont 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 Thurman-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.
Thurman had a tornado in 2012. How can I tell whether a house was repaired well?
After the April 14, 2012 EF-2 tornado, a large share of Thurman's homes needed repair or rebuilding, so repair quality varies from house to house. Roof framing connections, attic structure, sheathing and fasteners, flashing, wall and window repairs, and whether the rebuilt portions match the older parts of the house are worth a look. Ask for permits, contractor records and insurance paperwork. In the basement, the foundation and moisture are the main concerns. Fremont County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so test for radon, and any private septic needs the Iowa Code 455B.172 transfer inspection.
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