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Residential Inspection · Earlham, IA

Residential Inspection in Earlham

Residential Inspection in Earlham, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

Earlham · Madison County

Residential Inspection in Earlham

Residential Inspection in Earlham, Madison County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Earlham is a small Madison County town of older homes drawing metro commuters north of the covered bridges, and we calibrate every visit to that.

Residential inspection is the heart of Closer Look — close to 95 percent of what we do across Saint Paul, the Twin Cities and greater 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 a Iowa house, photo-mapped and delivered within 24 hours.

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Calibrated

Tuned to Earlham.

Earlham housing runs to older homes with metro-commuter infill, across the town core and the newer edges, on rolling Madison County drift north of the covered-bridge country — and that mix shapes what a residential inspection here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Earlham

Iowa runs no municipal time-of-sale inspection ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on a Earlham home. Earlham sits in Madison 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 Earlham visit to find.

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.
Do you cover Earlham?
Yes — northern Madison County is squarely in range. Older stock gets services and foundations dated; the commuter-era builds get grading and build-quality verification on clay ground that moves with moisture, and every home gets the Iowa radon conversation.
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