Hansville: My Water Bill Doubled and Nothing Changed

Why this happens in Hansville

In Hansville we check irrigation before anything else, because a neighbor's pressure complaint on a shared main is how it shows up here. A cracked mainline, a valve stuck open, or a drip zone that never shuts off can run a meter all night. Till and roots on the Hansville Road uplands makes the signs misleading, so we confirm rather than assume.

Next: 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. With gravel at Point No Point under wooded parcels along Twin Spits Road, the symptoms can look identical to the first cause, which is why the meter test and the locate matter.

Don't overlook seasonal use you forgot. Compare to the same month last year, not last month. On Hansville properties from 1950s beach cabins expanded over decades it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

At Point No Point, Twin Spits and Driftwood Key the sand and the high water table mean leaks never surface and trenches fill as they're dug, so we locate carefully from the PUD meter or the shared main and bring pumps.

Do this before anyone digs beach sand right at the water table in Hansville: close every fixture and watch the meter's low-flow indicator for two minutes. Drop food coloring in each toilet tank and wait fifteen minutes. It takes minutes and it tells us whether the problem is on the Driftwood Key lagoon community or inside the house.

What happens next

The repair side is high water bill investigation. On acreage off Hansville Road that means meter test, then report in trenches that fill as they're dug where the problem actually is, then repair. If what we expose is shallow lines under 1950s cabins at the end of its life, we say so with the pipe in your hand.

From Twin Spits to Foulweather Bluff and out around the Greenway, high water bill is a regular Hansville call for us. About forty minutes to the north tip, and emergencies on wooded parcels along Twin Spits Road dispatch immediately, any hour.