French Drain & Yard Drainage, East Port Orchard WA

French Drain & Yard Drainage in East Port Orchard

A district bill that climbs on 1980s subdivision lots off Mile Hill is a drainage design problem, not a mystery. We read where water comes from across clay seams near Retsil, where it can go near Bethel Avenue, and build the drain between the two with fabric, rock and grade.

Around Retsil the typical French drain installation call is a crawlspace wet after every storm; around Mile Hill Drive it's water surfacing downhill on a sloped lot. Different symptoms, the same galvanized on Annapolis waterfront homes and till sloping toward Sinclair Inlet underneath.

Exterior drain work in Washington is excavation and drainage, not plumbing, and French drain installation is core East Port Orchard work for us. It pairs with the water line, often galvanized on Annapolis waterfront homes, that shares the trench along a foundation on mid-size lots along Bethel Avenue.

Near Bethel Avenue we've put interceptor drains across slopes above houses; near Village Greens we've dried lawns soggy from November to May. Yard drains, basins, swales and French drains are one toolkit, and on sloped lots above the inlet with clay seams near Retsil we usually use two or three.

Why East Port Orchard drains fail

Sloped subdivision lots above Sinclair Inlet with silted corrugated footing drains and downspout lines that end at the foundation. Those lines are forty to fifty years old now.

Water surfacing downhill on a sloped lot on sloped lots above the inlet is usually water with nowhere to go in till sloping toward Sinclair Inlet. French drain installation gives it somewhere: we lay out and trench, we fabric, rock, pipe, rock, and we finish with an outlet that actually discharges.

How the work goes

A French drain installation visit to East Port Orchard runs: lay out and trench, then fabric, rock, pipe, rock, then finish. The middle step is where hardpan on the Mile Hill plateau and mid-size lots along Bethel Avenue set the pace, and clean washed drain rock is what gets it done near Mile Hill Drive.

On the truck for East Port Orchard: clean washed drain rock, catch basins, yard drains, pumps, the mini excavator. Whether French drain installation is a morning or a day on older lots down toward Retsil comes down to hardpan on the Mile Hill plateau and whether the line is early poly on Jackson Avenue lots.

We've seen a crawlspace wet after every storm on sloped lots above the inlet near Retsil and water surfacing downhill on a sloped lot by Mile Hill Drive. Both times the line was galvanized on Annapolis waterfront homes, the ground was till sloping toward Sinclair Inlet, and the fix was French drain installation done once.

Around East Port Orchard

Older lots down toward Retsil near the Veterans Home or South Kitsap High, hardpan on the Mile Hill plateau or not, French drain installation gets the same crew and the same equipment. About twenty minutes across the inlet, day or night.