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Greenwood · Hennepin County

Sewer Scope Inspection in Greenwood

Sewer Scope Inspection in Greenwood, Hennepin County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Greenwood is a Lake Minnetonka shore city on Saint Albans Bay, incorporated in 1956 out of Excelsior Township.

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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Greenwood

Local housing

Homes in Greenwood.

Greenwood housing runs to lakeshore homes of many decades, from small older cottages and postwar houses to large rebuilt lake homes, on a city of only 0.36 sq. mi. of land, across the shoreline of Saint Albans Bay, the blocks along Highway 7 and the edge shared with Excelsior, on the glacial-drift shore of Lake Minnetonka, on the Saint Albans Bay side, at about 942 feet — and that mix shapes what a sewer scope inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Greenwood

Greenwood does not run a point-of-sale housing ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on the home. Greenwood sits in Hennepin 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 3-1/2-foot depth Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 set for the southern frost zone, and that annual freeze-thaw cycle is what drives the settlement cracks, frost heave and ice-dam wear that Greenwood-area homes face.

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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.

Does a home inspection include the dock or seawall?

We note the visible condition of retaining walls, stairs and docks at the shoreline, and we can coordinate a structural engineer's evaluation when a wall shows real movement. If we see leaning, cracking or washout, we say so and recommend a qualified specialist. Rules for work at the water's edge are set by local and state agencies, so check with them before planning repairs.

How does living on Lake Minnetonka change what gets inspected at a Greenwood house?

Greenwood covers 1.03 sq. mi., and nearly two-thirds of that is water, so most houses are tied to the shoreline in some way. Grading and drainage toward the bay, basement moisture and sump operation, docks and retaining walls that touch the house lot, and older lake cottages remodeled and added onto in stages are the things to watch. Those layered additions are where mismatched framing, wiring and roofing turn up. Hennepin County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so a 48-hour test belongs on a basement or walkout-level living space.

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