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11-Month Warranty Inspection · West Point, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in West Point

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West Point · Lee County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in West Point

11-Month Warranty Inspection in West Point, Lee County, by Closer Look Inspectors. West Point is a small Lee County city incorporated in 1858, whose name was chosen by officers of the garrison at Fort Des Moines at Montrose.

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 West Point.

West Point housing runs to houses from the years after the 1858 incorporation, early-1900s frame homes, a postwar stock and newer infill, across the compact townsite of about 0.64 square miles and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in Lee County — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in West Point

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 West Point home. West Point sits in Lee 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 West Point-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.
Many properties around West Point are acreages. What should I know about the well and septic?
Start with the water and waste systems, because a property just outside the compact townsite is often not on city service. The well head and casing, pressure tank and any treatment equipment are the things to note, and a water-quality test through a certified lab is recommended. For a private septic system, Iowa Code 455B.172 requires a time-of-transfer inspection, so find the tank lids and field location early and ask for pumping and repair records. How roof and driveway runoff moves toward the foundation also matters. Lee County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so a radon test belongs in the basement review.
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