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Residential Inspection in Ames

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Ames · Story County

Residential Inspection in Ames

Residential Inspection in Ames, Story County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Ames is a university city of dense rental stock and newer subdivisions.

Residential inspection is the heart of Closer Look — close to 95 percent of what we do across Minnesota and Iowa. It is the umbrella over every home service we offer, with specialty services available as add-ons: the full home inspection, buyer's and pre-listing reviews, radon, sewer scope, thermal imaging, mold and moisture, foundation, roof, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, new-construction and 11-month-warranty work, well-water testing and older-home evaluations — one trusted, buyer-side read on an Iowa house, photo-mapped and delivered within 24 hours.

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Local housing

Homes in Ames.

Ames housing runs to dense student rental stock alongside newer subdivisions, across the campus-adjacent neighborhoods and the outer subdivisions, on Des Moines Lobe till — and that mix shapes what a residential inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Ames

Ames 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. Ames sits in Story 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 Ames-area homes face.

Residential Inspection in Ames: what matters

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Questions

Common questions.

What counts as a residential inspection?
Any owner-occupied or rental dwelling — single-family homes, townhomes, condos, duplexes and small multi-family up to four units. The full home inspection is the core, and radon, sewer scope, thermal imaging and the rest are available as add-ons when the property calls for them.
Is residential really most of your work?
Yes — roughly 95 percent of Closer Look inspections are residential. It is what we are built around, from century-old capital-city homes to brand-new metro subdivisions.
Which services can be added to a residential inspection?
Any of them: full home, buyer's, pre-listing, radon, sewer scope, thermal imaging, mold and moisture, foundation, roof, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, new-construction, 11-month warranty, well-water and older-home inspections. Specialty services are available as add-ons.
Is Ames rental housing different to inspect?
Yes. Campus-adjacent housing carries heavy rental history — divided units, added bedrooms, altered egress and years of deferred maintenance. All of it is worth knowing plainly, including anything that looks unpermitted.
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