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Foundation Inspection in Exira

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Exira · Audubon County

Foundation Inspection in Exira

Foundation Inspection in Exira, Audubon County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Exira is the oldest town in Audubon County, platted on June 1, 1857 and named for Exira Eckman, daughter of Judge John Eckman, on the East Nishnabotna River, and we calibrate every visit to that.

A foundation inspection reads a home's structure — poured concrete, block and the grading around it — for cracking, movement, settlement and water entry, so you know whether a crack is cosmetic or a genuine budget line.

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Tuned to Exira.

Exira housing runs to houses from the 1857 platting and the decades after it, a large stock from the 1900 count of 851 residents and the 1950 peak of 1,129, and later infill, across the downtown blocks along U.S. Route 71, the older residential streets and the East Nishnabotna River corridor, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain, along the East Nishnabotna River — and that mix shapes what a foundation inspection here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Exira

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 an Exira home. Exira sits in Audubon 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 Exira visit to find.

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Questions

Common questions.

Are foundation cracks always serious?
No. We separate routine settlement cracking from active structural movement and explain which one you are looking at.
What is common in Iowa foundations?
Block and poured walls with frost and settlement cracking, and water entry that traces back to grading and downspouts.
Exira was hit by a major flood in 1958. How should that affect what I look at in a house here?
The East Nishnabotna flooded Exira on July 2, 1958; the record we read reports 19 deaths, 75 homes destroyed and about 20 businesses damaged in the western part of town. A lot of time has passed, but water history is still a fair question for lower lots. We look for stain lines and efflorescence on basement walls, the sump pit and discharge, window wells, grade at the foundation and the height of the furnace and water heater. Ask the seller about past water and insurance claims, and check the flood map status. Audubon County is EPA Radon Zone 1.
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