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Grimes · Polk County

Residential Inspection in Grimes

Residential Inspection in Grimes, Polk County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Grimes is a boomburb on flat Des Moines Lobe till, mostly built since the late 1990s, 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.

Grimes

Calibrated

Tuned to Grimes.

Grimes housing runs to late-1990s to 2020s subdivisions around a small older core, across the newer subdivisions and the original town blocks, on flat Des Moines Lobe till with slow natural drainage — and that mix shapes what a residential inspection here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Grimes

Grimes 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. Grimes sits in Polk 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 Grimes visit to find.

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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.

What comes up most in Grimes homes?

This is flat, heavy lobe till that was farm field with drain tile a generation ago — it sheds water slowly, so lot grading, sump performance and any low-corner ponding lead the report. The 1990s-2000s stock is also reaching first replacement age for roofs and furnaces, and we date each so you can plan.

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