Lofall: Water Pressure Dropped and Nobody Knows Why

Why this happens in Lofall

Start with a leak on the service line. Water leaving the pipe underground never reaches the house. Around Pioneer Way and Kitsap Memorial State Park the housing dates from 1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms, which makes this the likeliest answer to low water pressure.

Then a partially closed or failing valve. A main shutoff that was never fully reopened, or a gate valve whose gate has dropped. We've seen it near Kitsap Memorial State Park more than once, usually on brittle 1970s polyethylene.

Don't overlook corroded galvanized pipe. Rust builds up inside old steel pipe until the bore is a fraction of its original size. On Lofall properties from 1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Lofall is well country.

First steps for low water pressure near Hood Canal: check whether the pressure is low at every fixture or just one. Confirm the main shutoff and any valve at the meter are fully open. Look at the pipe at the point of entry: threaded gray steel means galvanized. Then call; the rest is a locate through bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore, not guesswork.

What happens next

When it's the buried line, the fix in Lofall is underground water leak detection: we correlate, repair, if you want us to through hardpan a foot down on the uplands at the marked spot on acreage along Lofall Road, and confirm and mark. Pipe and cable locator and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Port Gamble, Hood Canal, Lofall Road: near any of them, low water pressure gets the same crew and the same equipment. About half an hour north of Poulsbo, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for waterfront on Hood Canal.