Lofall: Water Pools Against My Foundation Every Time It Rains

Why this happens in Lofall

The most common cause we find in Lofall is a dead footing drain. Silted corrugated pipe or a buried outlet. On small farms off Pioneer Way with roots and till along Pioneer Way underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check runoff and groundwater from uphill, because in Lofall 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.

Don't overlook downspouts. The buried line is crushed, clogged or was never there, and roof water dumps at the wall. On Lofall properties from 1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

French drains with real outlets, regraded swales and footing drain replacements make up most of the drain work.

Before we arrive in Lofall, 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 waterfront on Hood Canal.

What happens next

Fixing water at the foundation here usually ends with downspout drain line repair near Vinland: excavate with downspout adapters and cleanouts, replace on acreage along Lofall Road, backfill and restore. One crew, one visit, hardpan a foot down on the uplands put back the way it was.

We've handled water at the foundation near Lofall Road where the cause was 200- to 400-foot poly well lines, and near Port Gamble where bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore was hiding a drain failure. About half an hour north of Poulsbo; we schedule Lofall so you aren't waiting a whole day.