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Thermal Imaging · Lincoln, IA

Thermal Imaging in Lincoln

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

Lincoln · Tama County

Thermal Imaging in Lincoln

Thermal Imaging in Lincoln, Tama County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Lincoln is a tiny Tama County town renamed from Berlin in 1918.

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.

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Craftsman bungalow with a covered front porch and stone columns — Thermal Imaging in Lincoln, IALincoln
Local housing

Homes in Lincoln.

Lincoln housing runs to early-1900s frame houses, a very small stock in a town of barely a hundred people, across the few blocks that make up the town and the Tama County farm ground immediately around it, on Iowan Surface ground near the Tama and Benton county line, gently rolling with long slopes — and that mix shapes what a thermal imaging here needs to find.

Local conditions in Lincoln

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 a Lincoln home. Lincoln sits in Tama 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 that Lincoln-area homes face.

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.
Is it worth paying for an inspection on a small house in Lincoln?
Yes, and for a reason specific to stock this old and this small. Lincoln was called Berlin until June 12, 1918, when it was renamed as a wartime patriotic gesture, and the housing that stands here mostly predates or dates from that period. In a hundred-year-old house the serious work is concentrated in four systems — the electrical service and branch wiring, the supply and drain plumbing, the heating equipment and its venting, and the foundation and sill — and any one of them can be a major undertaking on a small house. Those are exactly what we date and document.
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