Hansville: Why Is My Crawlspace Wet Every Winter?

Why this happens in Hansville

The most common cause we find in Hansville is a silted or outlet-less footing drain. Corrugated pipe laid in native soil without fabric silts shut in a few decades, and the daylight outlet is usually buried or crushed. On the Driftwood Key lagoon community with till and roots on the Hansville Road uplands underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check groundwater from uphill, because in Hansville it explains a real share of wet crawlspace calls. On sloped lots in Port Orchard, Manchester, Enetai, Tracyton and Bainbridge, water perched on the hardpan moves downhill toward the house all winter.

Don't overlook a leaking water service line. If the crawlspace is wet with no rain, or wet in August, or wet on the side facing the meter, do the meter test. On Hansville properties from 1950s beach cabins expanded over decades it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

On the uplands it's till that holds water and footing drains that have silted shut on 1970s to 90s homes.

Before we arrive in Hansville, three things you can do: walk the house in a hard rain and watch every downspout. Do the five-minute meter test to rule the water line in or out. Find the footing drain outlet and see whether it's flowing. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us backfill with rock faster on acreage off Hansville Road.

What happens next

Fixing wet crawlspace here usually ends with footing drain repair near Hansville Road: backfill with rock with sump basins where needed, restore on Point No Point and Twin Spits cabin lots, diagnose. One crew, one visit, beach sand right at the water table put back the way it was.

We've handled wet crawlspace near Buck Lake where the cause was shallow lines under 1950s cabins, and near Foulweather Bluff where gravel at Point No Point was hiding a drain failure. About forty minutes to the north tip; we schedule Hansville so you aren't waiting a whole day.