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Thermal Imaging · Exira, IA

Thermal Imaging in Exira

Thermal Imaging in Exira, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

Exira · Audubon County

Thermal Imaging in Exira

Thermal Imaging in Exira, Audubon County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Exira is the oldest town in Audubon County, platted on June 1, 1857 and named for Exira Eckman, daughter of Judge John Eckman, on the East Nishnabotna River, and we calibrate every visit to that.

Infrared thermal imaging uses a calibrated thermal camera to surface hidden moisture, missing insulation and overheating electrical connections — available as an add-on or as a stand-alone thermal imaging inspection.

Exira homes are inspected by a local partner in our Iowa network.  ·  Call or text (563) 517-7815

Two-storey home with lit windows in fresh snow at dusk — Thermal Imaging in Exira, IAExira
Calibrated

Tuned to Exira.

Exira housing runs to houses from the 1857 platting and the decades after it, a large stock from the 1900 count of 851 residents and the 1950 peak of 1,129, and later infill, across the downtown blocks along U.S. Route 71, the older residential streets and the East Nishnabotna River corridor, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain, along the East Nishnabotna River — and that mix shapes what a thermal imaging here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Exira

No Iowa law requires a home inspection before a sale — the one mandatory time-of-transfer inspection covers private septic systems (Iowa Code 455B.172) — which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on an Exira home. Exira sits in Audubon 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 we calibrate every Exira visit to find.

Questions

Common questions.

Do you offer thermal imaging?
Yes. Infrared scanning is available as an add-on.
What does it actually find?
Moisture tracking behind finishes, gaps in insulation, and hot electrical connections that are invisible to the naked eye.
Exira was hit by a major flood in 1958. How should that affect what I look at in a house here?
The East Nishnabotna flooded Exira on July 2, 1958; the record we read reports 19 deaths, 75 homes destroyed and about 20 businesses damaged in the western part of town. A lot of time has passed, but water history is still a fair question for lower lots. We look for stain lines and efflorescence on basement walls, the sump pit and discharge, window wells, grade at the foundation and the height of the furnace and water heater. Ask the seller about past water and insurance claims, and check the flood map status. Audubon County is EPA Radon Zone 1.
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