Water Pools Against My Foundation Every Time It Rains (Bremerton, WA)

What usually causes water at the foundation in Bremerton

The most common cause we find in Bremerton is downspouts. The buried line is crushed, clogged or was never there, and roof water dumps at the wall. On sloped lots above the Narrows with wet clay seams on the Narrows side underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check runoff and groundwater from uphill, because in Bremerton it explains a real share of water at the foundation calls. On sloped lots, a curtain drain uphill of the house intercepts it before it reaches the backfill.

And a dead footing drain: silted corrugated pipe or a buried outlet. Less common on short service runs on the city grid, but we've found it near Rocky Point.

First steps on a Bremerton property

We see footing drains that were never connected to any outlet, downspout lines that end in the crawlspace, and side-yard drains crushed by decades of parked cars.

Before we arrive in Bremerton, three things you can do: check the slope against the wall on every side. Find the footing drain outlet and see if it flows. Note which wall gets wet and what's uphill of it. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us excavate faster on short service runs on the city grid.

How we fix it

Fixing water at the foundation here usually ends with downspout drain line repair near Charleston: excavate with downspout adapters and cleanouts, test and trace on narrow Charleston and Manette grid lots, backfill and restore. One crew, one visit, gray hardpan a foot down put back the way it was.

We've handled water at the foundation near Rocky Point where the cause was 1940s galvanized steel at the threads, and near Pacific Avenue where thin topsoil over compacted till was hiding a drain failure. A few minutes from our base; we schedule Bremerton so you aren't waiting a whole day.