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New Construction Inspection · Garrison, IA

New Construction Inspection in Garrison

New Construction Inspection in Garrison, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

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Garrison · Benton County

New Construction Inspection in Garrison

New Construction Inspection in Garrison, Benton County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Garrison is a shrinking Benton County town of older homes on the old Rock Island line, and we calibrate every visit to that.

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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Tuned to Garrison.

Garrison housing runs to older town homes across roughly 153 housing units, from a town incorporated in 1880, across the compact town grid on the old Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific line, on long-sloped Iowan Surface ground with low relief and scattered areas of naturally poor drainage — and that mix shapes what a new construction inspection here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Garrison

Iowa runs no municipal time-of-sale inspection ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on a Garrison home. Garrison sits in Benton County, and Iowa has the highest average indoor radon level of any state — the Iowa DNR puts roughly five in ten Iowa homes above the 4.0 pCi/L action level, and Iowa sellers must disclose known radon results on the property disclosure. Finished basements concentrate it, and only a 48-hour test gives you this home's number. Footings here are set below a frost line of roughly 36 to 42 inches, and that annual freeze-thaw cycle drives the settlement cracks and ice-dam wear we calibrate every Garrison visit to find.

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Questions

Common questions.

Why inspect a brand-new home?
Even new homes carry defects — flashing, grading and rushed finish work are common. Catch them before you close.
When should it happen?
Before your final walkthrough, so the items land on the builder's punch list.
How old is the wiring likely to be in a Garrison house?
Older than the panel suggests. Garrison was named for farmer Nelson Garrison, who owned the property in 1872, incorporated in 1880, passed 500 residents by 1910 and is down from 413 in 2000 to about 345 — a town whose 153 housing units mostly predate any modern building wave. In that stock we routinely find a modern breaker panel fed by original branch circuits, ungrounded two-prong outlets behind three-prong faces, fabric-insulated conductors in the attic, and knob-and-tube remnants in wall cavities. We trace what is actually connected, not just what the panel looks like.
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