Bainbridge Island: My Water Bill Doubled and Nothing Changed

Why this happens in Bainbridge Island

Start with a running toilet. A flapper or fill valve that doesn't seat lets water run silently from tank to bowl. Around Fort Ward and Eagle Harbor the housing dates from mid-century cabins, 1970s acreage and 1990s-to-2010s custom homes, which makes this the likeliest answer to high water bill.

Then irrigation. A cracked mainline, a valve stuck open, or a drip zone that never shuts off can run a meter all night. We've seen it near Eagle Harbor more than once, usually on copper shifted at every joint by clay.

Don't overlook a leak on the buried service line. Galvanized steel from the 1940s, copper from the 60s and 70s, polybutylene from the 80s, brittle early polyethylene: all of it fails eventually, and in Kitsap's till and outwash it can leak for months with no wet spot. On Bainbridge Island properties from mid-century cabins, 1970s acreage and 1990s-to-2010s custom homes it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Bainbridge is the clearest case for locating before digging.

First steps for high water bill near Manzanita: pull last year's bill for the same month and compare. Isolate irrigation at its own shutoff and re-test. Close the house main shutoff and watch again: still moving means the buried line. Then call; the rest is a locate through clay that sticks to the bucket, not guesswork.

What happens next

When it's the buried line, the fix in Bainbridge Island is high water bill investigation: we locate, report through till on the island interior at the marked spot on custom-home acreage off Highway 305, and check irrigation. Acoustic ground microphone and and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Lynwood Center, Manzanita, Port Blakely: near any of them, high water bill gets the same crew and the same equipment. Across the Agate Pass Bridge from the Kitsap side, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for sloped waterfront lots at Port Blakely.