Reports within 24 hours · Get your free instant quote
Certified Master Inspector sealCloser Look InspectorsStatewide Minnesota & IowaFree Instant Quote
Mold Inspection · Somers, IA

Mold Inspection in Somers

Mold Inspection in Somers, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

Get Your Free Instant QuoteSee What's Included
Somers · Calhoun County

Mold Inspection in Somers

Mold Inspection in Somers, Calhoun County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Somers is a small 1900 railroad shipping-point village in Calhoun County.

A mold and moisture inspection — mold testing and mold detection in one visit — pairs infrared moisture mapping with lab-backed sampling to locate active moisture and trace it to its source — a frequent issue in Iowa basements and older housing stock.

Questions about a Somers home?  ·  Call or text (563) 517-7815

Two-story home with gabled roof and attached two-car garage — Mold Inspection in Somers, IASomers
Local housing

Homes in Somers.

Somers housing runs to older homes from the 1900 railroad village, about sixty in all, across the compact grid along the old rail line, on flat Des Moines Lobe till in eastern Calhoun County — and that mix shapes what a mold inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Somers

Somers sits on Des Moines Lobe till — heavy, poorly drained clay that holds water against foundations and moves with moisture, which is what drives basement seepage and foundation cracking across central Iowa. Somers sits in Calhoun 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 that Somers-area homes face.

Home inspection in Somers →  ·  More about mold inspection →

Questions

Common questions.

How do you test for mold?
Infrared imaging and moisture meters pinpoint wet areas; when the evidence warrants it, samples go to an accredited laboratory.
What drives moisture problems here?
Grading and downspout discharge, below-grade humidity, and the occasional plumbing or roof leak.
Do you cover Somers?
Yes — Somers is inside our Fort Dodge coverage, served from Buffalo Center. It was platted in 1900 as a rail shipping point, so the stock is mostly early-1900s frame homes: we date wiring, plumbing, roofs and foundations, recommend a sewer scope on the original streets, and read grading and the sump on slow-draining till. Calhoun County is Radon Zone 1.
Keep looking

More across Iowa.

Mold Inspection nearby

Other inspections in Somers

Questions about mold inspection

In-depth guides

Free instant quote

Build your quote in 30 seconds.

No phone tag, no callback delay. Price and book your inspection right here — it takes about 30 seconds and there is no obligation.

Free Instant Quote & SchedulerPowered by InspectorData
Free Instant Quote