My Water Bill Doubled and Nothing Changed (Rollingbay, WA)

What usually causes high water bill in Rollingbay

The most common cause we find in Rollingbay is 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 long drives through second growth with till on the island interior underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check a running toilet, because in Rollingbay it explains a real share of high water bill calls. A flapper or fill valve that doesn't seat lets water run silently from tank to bowl.

And seasonal use you forgot: compare to the same month last year, not last month. Less common on interior acreage off Sunrise Drive, but we've found it near Murden Cove.

First steps on a Rollingbay property

Rolling Bay is on community systems and wells, so a locate may start at a shared meter vault, an individual meter or a pressure tank.

Before we arrive in Rollingbay, three things you can do: drop food coloring in each toilet tank and wait fifteen minutes. Close every fixture and watch the meter's low-flow indicator for two minutes. Close the house main shutoff and watch again: still moving means the buried line. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us repair faster on interior acreage off Sunrise Drive.

How we fix it

Fixing high water bill here usually ends with high water bill investigation near Valley Road: repair with pipe locator, meter test on beach lots at Manitou Beach, report. One crew, one visit, slopes above Rolling Bay put back the way it was.

We've handled high water bill near Murden Cove where the cause was lines under shared drives, and near Skiff Point where clay that shifts rigid pipe was hiding a drain failure. About forty minutes via the Agate Pass Bridge; we schedule Rollingbay so you aren't waiting a whole day.