Wet crawlspace in Rollingbay, WA

The likely causes here

In Rollingbay we check downspouts dumping at the foundation before anything else, because a soft spot on a long gravel drive is how it shows up here. A 2,000-square-foot roof sheds over a thousand gallons in an inch of rain. Clay that shifts rigid pipe makes the signs misleading, so we confirm rather than assume.

Next: 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. With slopes above Rolling Bay under long drives through second growth, the symptoms can look identical to the first cause, which is why the meter test and the locate matter.

Finally, 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. Worth five minutes before anyone digs till on the island interior.

What to check first

Footing drains and curtain drains with gravity outlets are routine; dry wells don't work in this ground.

Do this before anyone digs till on the island interior in Rollingbay: note which side of the crawlspace the water enters from. Walk the house in a hard rain and watch every downspout. It takes minutes and it tells us whether the problem is on beach lots at Manitou Beach or inside the house.

The fix in Rollingbay

The repair side is footing drain repair. On interior acreage off Sunrise Drive that means excavate the foundation, then outlet in Bainbridge clay on the Murden Cove slopes where the problem actually is, then restore. If what we expose is lines under shared drives at the end of its life, we say so with the pipe in your hand.

From Sunrise Drive to Valley Road and out around Murden Cove, wet crawlspace is a regular Rollingbay call for us. About forty minutes via the Agate Pass Bridge, and emergencies on long drives through second growth dispatch immediately, any hour.