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Sewer Scope Inspection · Grasston, MN

Sewer Scope Inspection in Grasston

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Grasston · Kanabec County

Sewer Scope Inspection in Grasston

Sewer Scope Inspection in Grasston, Kanabec County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Grasston is a Kanabec County village on Grass Lake, with a post office since 1899, and we calibrate every visit to that.

A sewer scope — also called a sewer camera inspection, drain scope or sewer line inspection — sends a camera down a home's lateral line to the city main, exposing root intrusion, bellies and the clay-pipe failures common in older Twin Cities neighborhoods — a five-figure surprise caught before you sign.

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Grasston housing runs to early-1900s village houses, some mid-century farmhouses, and a few newer homes, on lots that mostly run on wells and septic, across the village blocks by Grass Lake and the farm ground along Highways 70 and 107, on sandy glacial outwash and lake plain in the Snake River country of Kanabec County — and that mix shapes what a sewer scope inspection here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Grasston

Grasston does not run a point-of-sale housing ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on the home. Grasston sits in Kanabec County, in EPA Radon Zone 1, and MDH reports more than two in five Minnesota homes have radon levels that pose a significant health risk. Finished basements concentrate radon, and only a 48-hour test tells you the number. Footings here must reach the five-foot depth Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 require in the state's northern frost zone, and that annual freeze-thaw cycle is what drives the settlement cracks, frost heave and ice-dam wear we calibrate every Grasston visit to find.

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Questions

Common questions.

Which homes need a sewer scope?
Any older home and any lot with mature trees. Root intrusion into aging clay laterals is one of the costliest defects a standard inspection cannot see.
Can a normal inspection check the sewer line?
No — the line is buried. Only a camera can reveal its true condition.
Grasston peaked at 239 people in 1920 — how does that show up in its houses?
It shows up as age. A post office has served Grasston since 1899, and the village peaked at 239 residents in 1920, then slid to about 105 by 2000 before recovering to about 154 in 2020. That leaves a mix of century-old houses, some sitting quiet for years, and newer replacements. We look for unheated winters in old plumbing, rodent entry, old knob-and-tube or patched wiring, worn roofs and sagging porch framing. Wells and private septic are common in small Kanabec County towns, so we ask for records and check the systems that are visible.
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