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New Construction Inspection · Solon, IA

New Construction Inspection in Solon

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

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Solon · Johnson County

New Construction Inspection in Solon

New Construction Inspection in Solon, Johnson County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Solon is a growing Johnson County town near Lake Macbride, 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 Solon.

Solon housing runs to a mix of nineteenth-century and early-1900s town houses and a large recent layer — the town grew about 48 percent between 2010 and 2020, across the older platted town around the main street, the newer subdivisions built out around it, and the lake-adjacent property toward Lake Macbride, on Johnson County ground between the Iowa River corridor and the Coralville reservoir drainage, gently rolling with loess over till — and that mix shapes what a new construction inspection here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Solon

Iowa runs no municipal time-of-sale inspection ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on a Solon home. Solon sits in Johnson 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 Solon 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.
Does lake-area property near Solon need anything extra looked at?
Yes, and it splits two ways. Solon was platted in 1840 and incorporated April 28, 1877 but grew 48.2 percent between 2010 and 2020, so you are choosing between genuinely old town houses and near-new subdivision construction — and near Lake Macbride State Park, between year-round houses and buildings that began as seasonal. Anything converted from seasonal use gets checked stage by stage: original footings, later insulation, added heat and plumbing, and whether the crawlspace was ever sealed. Private wells and septic outside town get their own evaluations.
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