Home inspection in Des Moines

Our Des Moines partner inspector is based in Des Moines and covers the metro and every town within a 30-mile radius — West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston, Waukee, Altoona, Clive, Grimes, Norwalk, Indianola, Adel, Winterset, Perry, Colfax and the small towns between them. The stock runs from Victorian and early-1900s homes in the older city neighborhoods to postwar ranches and the 1990s-2020s subdivisions of the fast-growing suburbs. Every inspection is photo-mapped and delivered within 24 hours.

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Home inspectors in Des Moines and the metro

Des Moines grew up where the Raccoon River meets the Des Moines River, so the city's housing spans more than a century: late-Victorian homes in the Sherman Hill historic district on the hill overlooking downtown, early-1900s and interwar houses across the older neighborhoods, postwar ranches across the city's edges, and the newer subdivisions that have filled Ankeny, Waukee, Grimes and the rest of the suburban ring. A full home inspection in Des Moines covers every system, with a photo-mapped report within 24 hours.

Radon, river-valley basements and sewer laterals

Every Iowa county is EPA Radon Zone 1, and Iowa HHS reports Iowa has the largest percentage of homes above the 4.0 pCi/L action level of any state. A 48-hour radon test in Des Moines gives you this house's number, and the Iowa seller disclosure form asks for any known results. On lots in the Raccoon and Des Moines river valleys we read basements and sump performance for past water, and on the older tree-lined streets sewer scoping in Des Moines is the camera check that finds root intrusion and broken clay laterals before closing.

Where our Des Moines partner inspects: a 30-mile radius

Des Moines, West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston, Altoona, Pleasant Hill, Bondurant and Polk City in Polk County; Waukee, Adel, Dallas Center, Perry, Van Meter and Woodward in Dallas County; Norwalk, Indianola, Carlisle, Cumming and Milo in Warren County; Winterset, Earlham, St. Charles and Truro in Madison County; and Colfax, Prairie City, Huxley, Slater, Madrid and Pleasantville toward the edge of the radius. Iowa leaves frost depth to the local building code, and acreages outside town limits get the well and septic conversation up front — a private septic system must be inspected before an Iowa property transfers. Farther south, down to the Missouri line, homes are inspected by a local partner in our Iowa network. Questions first? Start in our answers library.