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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Van Meter, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Van Meter

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

Van Meter · Dallas County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Van Meter

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Van Meter, Dallas County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Van Meter is a Raccoon River valley town of older homes and newer construction west of the metro, 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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Modern white farmhouse-style home with black windows and dark garage doors — 11-Month Warranty Inspection in Van Meter, IAVan Meter
Calibrated

Tuned to Van Meter.

Van Meter housing runs to older homes and newer construction in the Raccoon valley, across the town core and the newer edges, on Raccoon River valley terraces west of the lobe edge — 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 Van Meter

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 Van Meter home. Van Meter sits in Dallas 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 Van Meter visit to find.

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.
What is specific to Van Meter?
Valley ground. Terraces along the Raccoon make grading, past water intrusion and sump systems the leading read on lower lots, and the older core adds aging services. Dallas County shares Iowa's Zone 1 radon standing, so we always recommend the 48-hour test.
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