My Water Meter Is Moving With Everything Turned Off (Rollingbay, WA)

What usually causes meter moving with everything off in Rollingbay

In Rollingbay we check irrigation before anything else, because a wet crawlspace after a dry month is how it shows up here. The indicator stops when the irrigation is isolated. Bainbridge clay on the Murden Cove slopes makes the signs misleading, so we confirm rather than assume.

Next: a buried service line leak. The indicator keeps moving with the house isolated and irrigation isolated. With slopes above Rolling Bay under sloped waterfront on Murden Cove, the symptoms can look identical to the first cause, which is why the meter test and the locate matter.

And a hose bib or outbuilding line: a shop, barn or hydrant branch that tees off before the house shutoff. Less common on long drives through second growth, but we've found it near Sunrise Drive.

First steps on a Rollingbay property

Long private drives through second-growth forest and Bainbridge clay mean the correlator does the narrowing.

Do this before anyone digs till on the island interior in Rollingbay: confirm nothing is running: toilets, ice maker, softener, irrigation, hoses. Isolate irrigation and any outbuilding branches. It takes minutes and it tells us whether the problem is on long drives through second growth or inside the house.

How we fix it

The repair side is underground water leak detection. On beach lots at Manitou Beach that means repair, if you want us to, then confirm and mark in clay that shifts rigid pipe where the problem actually is, then listen. If what we expose is copper and galvanized on Manitou Beach cabins at the end of its life, we say so with the pipe in your hand.

From Sunrise Drive to Valley Road and out around Bay Hay and Feed, meter moving with everything off is a regular Rollingbay call for us. About forty minutes via the Agate Pass Bridge, and emergencies on sloped waterfront on Murden Cove dispatch immediately, any hour.