Why We Exist
Every septic company in this part of Iowa treats a Time of Transfer inspection like a box to check before the real work starts. We built this company around that one inspection instead.
The gap nobody’s filling
Look at any septic outfit’s service list in Warren, Madison, Dallas, Jasper, or Marion County and you’ll find inspection buried near the bottom, under pumping and repair. It’s treated as paperwork. But a Time of Transfer inspection isn’t paperwork. In Iowa, it’s a legal requirement that decides whether a home sale closes on schedule or stalls for weeks while a system gets dug up and fixed under deadline pressure.
What that gap costs a homeowner
When inspection is an afterthought, the person doing it usually isn’t set up to explain what a failed result actually means or what it will take to fix. The seller gets a pass/fail slip and a phone number for whoever’s next. Then the stress starts: a closing date at risk, a buyer’s agent asking questions nobody on the seller’s side can answer, and a repair quote with no diagnosis behind it. That’s the moment this company exists for.
What We Do
DNR-certified Time of Transfer inspections
This is the core of the business, not a line item. We hold the certification the state requires to perform Time of Transfer inspections, and we treat the report as the main deliverable, not a formality on the way to a repair bid.
Repair and replacement, same five counties
When a system doesn’t pass, we do the repair or replacement work ourselves. Same crew, same county, same understanding of the system we just inspected. No handoff to a second company that has to relearn the site from scratch.
Where we work
Warren, Madison, Dallas, Jasper, and Marion counties. That’s the exurban ring around Des Moines, not the core city. Septic systems out here are the norm, not the exception, and county health department requirements vary enough that local knowledge actually matters.
How We Operate Differently
We inspect before we quote
A lot of septic pricing in this market starts with a phone call and a guess. We don’t quote a repair until we’ve actually looked at the system and know what’s failing and why. That takes longer than a phone estimate. It also means the number you get is the number that holds.
A report you can actually read
A bare pass or fail tells a seller nothing about what happens next. Our inspection reports explain what we found, in plain language, and what it would take to bring the system into compliance if it didn’t pass. You should be able to hand our report to a real estate agent or a buyer and have it make sense on the first read.
Form-only, on purpose
We don’t run a call center and we’re not trying to close you on the phone in the first five minutes. Every request comes in through the site, and every request gets a considered answer, not a rushed estimate given standing in a driveway. If you need to reach us, that’s the door.
We’re a new company built around one specific gap in this market: nobody makes the Time of Transfer inspection the center of what they do. We do. That’s the whole pitch.
Send us your ToT report, we’ll tell you what it actually requires. Curious what a failed inspection could cost to fix? See the cost guide. Ready to move forward? Request a site evaluation, we respond within one business day.