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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Windsor Heights, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Windsor Heights

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Windsor Heights, IA: A written record of findings gives you something concrete to bring to your builder. Report…

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Windsor Heights · Polk County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Windsor Heights

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Windsor Heights, Polk County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Windsor Heights is a small inner-ring suburb of 1940s-60s ranches and capes fully surrounded by Des Moines, 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.

Windsor Heights is served by our Des Moines team →  ·  (563) 517-7815

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Calibrated

Tuned to Windsor Heights.

Windsor Heights housing runs to 1940s-60s ranches and capes on mature, tree-heavy lots, across the postwar blocks between University and Hickman, on Des Moines Lobe till cut by the Walnut Creek drainage — 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 Windsor Heights

Windsor Heights is a built-out city of about 1.4 square miles, incorporated in 1941 and surrounded by Des Moines and its suburbs, so new construction here is likely infill or rebuilds on existing lots. If you bought one, we inspect near the end of the first year: grading and drainage on tight lots, framing, roof, and mechanical systems. A written record of findings gives you something concrete to bring to your builder.

Local facts checked October 2026 against: Wikipedia.

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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.
What should Windsor Heights buyers expect?
The most uniform postwar stock in the metro — nearly everything here went up in the two decades after the war, so 60-to-80-year-old houses are now on second or third roofs, furnaces and water heaters, often with original panels and galvanized supply lines still in place. Mature trees add sewer-lateral root intrusion worth scoping, lots near Walnut Creek get the flood-history and sump read, and Polk County shares Iowa's Zone 1 radon standing.
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