Home inspection in Edgewood

Our Edgewood team covers northeast Iowa's hill country — Edgewood, Strawberry Point, Elkader, Manchester, Dyersville, Oelwein and the Clayton, Delaware, Fayette and Buchanan County towns within about 25 miles. Sewer scoping leads here: the older river and ridge towns run aging clay laterals under mature trees, and a camera down the line is the only way to see root intrusion and bellies before you sign. Driftless karst on the Clayton side adds fast-draining wells and foundation drainage to the read, and every report is photo-mapped and delivered within 24 hours.

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Home inspectors in Edgewood and northeast Iowa's hill country

Edgewood sits on the ridge where Clayton and Delaware counties meet, and the surrounding country is unlike the rest of Iowa: Driftless limestone bluffs and river valleys to the east and north (Elkader, Volga, Guttenberg, Strawberry Point), rolling Iowan Surface farm ground to the west and south (Manchester, Dyersville, Oelwein, Independence). Housing is early-1900s frame and limestone in the river towns, farm-town homes and acreages everywhere else. Most acreages here also depend on private wells and septic systems. More on home inspection in Edgewood.

Sewer scoping leads here

The older river and ridge towns run aging clay laterals under mature trees, and root intrusion is the costliest defect a standard inspection cannot see. Sewer scoping in Edgewood — a camera down the line to the main — is the add-on we recommend on nearly every pre-1970 house, and sewer scopes in Elkader, Manchester and Dyersville are the same visit. On the karst side, limestone lies close to the surface and groundwater moves fast through fractured rock, so private wells and foundation drainage get flagged for the testing they deserve.

Radon, frost and where we go

Iowa has the largest percentage of homes above the EPA 4.0 pCi/L action level of any state, per Iowa HHS (71.6 percent in the Iowa Radon Survey) — so a 48-hour radon test in Edgewood rides along on most inspections. Footings sit below the frost depth the local building department sets. From Edgewood we cover Strawberry Point, Elkader, Colesburg, Greeley, Volga, Manchester, Dyersville, Oelwein, Fayette, Guttenberg and every Clayton County, Delaware County and Fayette County town within about 25 miles. Our answers library explains sewer scopes, radon and what a report includes.