New Construction Inspection in Des Moines
New Construction Inspection in Des Moines, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.
New Construction Inspection in Des Moines
New Construction Inspection in Des Moines, Polk County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Des Moines is Iowa's capital and largest city, a mix of historic neighborhoods and postwar suburbs on Des Moines Lobe till.
A new construction inspection gives a newly built home an independent review before your final walkthrough — because builders miss things, and an outside set of eyes catches them while the fix is still the builder's responsibility.
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Des Moines housing runs to historic neighborhoods and extensive postwar suburbs, across the historic core neighborhoods and the surrounding suburbs, on Des Moines Lobe glacial till — heavy, poorly drained clay — and that mix shapes what a new construction inspection here needs to find.
Local conditions in Des Moines
Des Moines 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. Des Moines sits in Polk 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 Des Moines-area homes face.
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