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Buyer's Inspection · Dellwood, MN

Buyer's Inspection in Dellwood

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Dellwood · Washington County

Buyer's Inspection in Dellwood

Buyer's Inspection in Dellwood, Washington County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Dellwood is a White Bear Lake summer-retreat community platted in 1882, now large lakeside and wooded-lot homes.

A buyer's inspection is your own independent read on a home you have under contract — the report that tells you what you are actually buying and protects your negotiating position before the inspection contingency expires.

Dellwood is served by our Saint Paul team →  ·  (612) 457-1634

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Local housing

Homes in Dellwood.

Dellwood housing runs to summer-retreat cottages and estates from the 1880s onward, now mostly large lakeside and wooded-lot homes, in a city of 1,171, across the White Bear Lake shoreline, the wooded lots along Highway 96 and the historic estate parcels, on glacial upland and shoreline on the north side of White Bear Lake — and that mix shapes what a buyer's inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Dellwood

Dellwood does not run a point-of-sale housing ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on the home. Dellwood sits in Washington County, in EPA Radon Zone 1, and MDH reports more than two in five Minnesota homes have radon levels that pose a significant health risk. Finished basements concentrate radon, and only a 48-hour test tells you the number. Footings here must reach the 3-1/2-foot depth Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 set for the southern frost zone, and that annual freeze-thaw cycle is what drives the settlement cracks, frost heave and ice-dam wear that Dellwood-area homes face.

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Questions

Common questions.

When should I schedule it?
As soon as your offer is accepted, so the finished report lands inside your inspection window with room left to respond.
Who do you work for?
You, every time. We are hired by the buyer, never the seller, and the report reflects only what we observed on site.
Is a historic Dellwood cottage or estate house more work to inspect?
Usually, yes, because the systems are often a mix of eras. A house that began as a summer place may have original framing, later insulation, replaced windows and an updated kitchen. What is old and what is new is worth tracing, along with wiring, plumbing and heating for age and for changes that were not done well. Wood elements exposed to weather, chimneys and old foundations deserve extra attention.
What does a house with a Dellwood summer-retreat history need checked?
Dellwood was platted in 1882 and grew after the railroad brought wealthy St. Paul families out for the season, and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda rented a summer cottage there in 1921. Older seasonal cottages here were often winterized, added onto and rewired over the decades. Insulation, heating conversions, foundation and crawl spaces, docks and shoreline erosion, and drainage on hillside lots are the common concerns. The city covers 2.81 sq. mi. with a mix of lot sizes. Washington County is EPA Radon Zone 1.
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