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

What usually causes water at the foundation in Keyport

Start with downspouts. The buried line is crushed, clogged or was never there, and roof water dumps at the wall. Around Port Orchard Bay and the Naval Undersea Museum the housing dates from a village that grew up with the torpedo station after 1914, which makes this the likeliest answer to water at the foundation.

Then a dead footing drain. Silted corrugated pipe or a buried outlet. We've seen it near the Naval Undersea Museum more than once, usually on 1920s galvanized under village foundations.

And grading: the ground slopes toward the house in the first few feet. Less common on short runs on the peninsula grid, but we've found it near the torpedo station.

First steps on a Keyport property

The peninsula's clay layer and shoreline seeps push groundwater toward the village's older foundations.

First steps for water at the foundation near Brownsville Highway: check the slope against the wall on every side. Watch the downspouts in a hard rain. Note which wall gets wet and what's uphill of it. Then call; the rest is a locate through till on the Keyport Road approaches, not guesswork.

How we fix it

When it's the buried line, the fix in Keyport is downspout drain line repair: we test and trace, backfill and restore through a clay layer under the village shelf at the marked spot on small, tightly packed village lots, and excavate. Downspout adapters and cleanouts and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

the torpedo station, Brownsville Highway, the marina: near any of them, water at the foundation gets the same crew and the same equipment. Ten minutes up Brownsville Highway, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for shoreline lots at Virginia Point.