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New Construction Inspection · Lincoln, IA

New Construction Inspection in Lincoln

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

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Lincoln · Tama County

New Construction Inspection in Lincoln

New Construction Inspection in Lincoln, Tama County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Lincoln is a tiny Tama County town renamed from Berlin in 1918.

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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Local housing

Homes in Lincoln.

Lincoln housing runs to early-1900s frame houses, a very small stock in a town of barely a hundred people, across the few blocks that make up the town and the Tama County farm ground immediately around it, on Iowan Surface ground near the Tama and Benton county line, gently rolling with long slopes — and that mix shapes what a new construction inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Lincoln

No Iowa law requires a home inspection before a sale — the one mandatory time-of-transfer inspection covers private septic systems (Iowa Code 455B.172) — which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on a Lincoln home. Lincoln sits in Tama 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 Lincoln-area homes face.

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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.
Is it worth paying for an inspection on a small house in Lincoln?
Yes, and for a reason specific to stock this old and this small. Lincoln was called Berlin until June 12, 1918, when it was renamed as a wartime patriotic gesture, and the housing that stands here mostly predates or dates from that period. In a hundred-year-old house the serious work is concentrated in four systems — the electrical service and branch wiring, the supply and drain plumbing, the heating equipment and its venting, and the foundation and sill — and any one of them can be a major undertaking on a small house. Those are exactly what we date and document.
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