Home inspection in Conrad.

It gives you a clean date. An 1894 fire destroyed nearly every downtown building and the town rebuilt in brick, so the commercial core almost entirely post-dates that year. On masonry of that age, look for deterioration of the mortar joints and prior repointing, lintels and parapets, water entry at the roof-to-wall junction, and bowing or displaced brick where old wall ties have failed. Residential stock around the core is frame and gets the ordinary older-home read on services, roof and foundation. Grundy County is EPA Radon Zone 1.

Plan on two to three hours for an average home; larger, older or multi-unit properties run longer because there is simply more to document.