Home inspection in Ida Grove

David Anderson, our Ida Grove partner inspector, covers northwest-central Iowa — Ida Grove, Holstein, Odebolt, Battle Creek, Galva, Schleswig, Correctionville, Sac City, Denison, Storm Lake, Cherokee and every Ida, Sac, Cherokee, Crawford and Buena Vista County town within about 30 miles. The stock runs from 1870s and 1880s railroad-town frame and brick to postwar ranches and acreages on wells and septic, on loess-covered uplands cut by the Maple, Boyer, Little Sioux and North Raccoon rivers. Every inspection is photo-mapped and delivered within 24 hours.

Your local inspector: David Anderson, our Ida Grove-area partner inspector.

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Home inspectors in Ida Grove and Ida County

Ida Grove is the Ida County seat, built where Odebolt Creek meets the Maple River. The town moved to the tracks when the Chicago and North Western arrived in 1877, and the county courthouse dates to 1883, so a good share of the housing is more than a century old: railroad-era frame homes near downtown, early-1900s houses on the streets laid out after the move, and postwar ranches and later infill at the edges. The castle-style buildings Byron Godbersen of Midwest Industries built are commercial and public, not residential. A full home inspection in Ida Grove covers every system, with a photo-mapped report within 24 hours.

Radon, creek-side 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 Ida Grove gives you this house's number, and the Iowa seller disclosure form asks for any known results. On lots near Odebolt Creek and the Maple River we read basements and sump performance for past water, and on older tree-lined streets sewer scoping in Ida Grove is the camera check that finds root intrusion and broken clay laterals before closing.

Where David inspects

Holstein, Galva, Battle Creek, Arthur and the rest of Ida County; Odebolt, Schaller, Early, Sac City and Lake View in Sac County; Denison, Schleswig, Charter Oak and Vail in Crawford County; Cherokee, Quimby and Washta in Cherokee County; Storm Lake and Alta in Buena Vista County; and Correctionville, Anthon, Danbury and Mapleton to the west. 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. Questions first? Start in our answers library.