Footing Drain Repair, Keyport WA

Drainage in Keyport

Find the outlet first. On shoreline lots at Virginia Point the original daylight pipe is buried or crushed, so the drain fills and overflows into the crawlspace. If it isn't flowing in a hard rain near Brownsville Highway, a test pit at the uphill corner through till on the Keyport Road approaches shows which.

A Keyport owner near Virginia Point usually describes a shared-system complaint from the whole street, and what we find after footing drain repair is poly on the Brownsville Highway parcels that met beach deposits at Virginia Point under small, tightly packed village lots.

Outlet first. With damp shoreline ground on Liberty Bay under small, tightly packed village lots, a drain can't rely on infiltration; it needs daylight downhill, a storm connection, or a sump. Footing drain repair starts by finding that outlet, because without one there is no drain.

The water service line shares the trench along the foundation, and in Keyport it's often short runs failing at foundation entries. With shoreline lots at Virginia Point open we'll say what it's made of and what shape it's in. Fixing both while till on the Keyport Road approaches is already moved saves a second dig.

Why Keyport drains fail

Footing drains on the oldest homes are often nonexistent or long since crushed. Because the village sits on a shelf of till and beach deposits with a clay layer under it, the ground along the shoreline stays damp enough that a small leak never looks like a leak.

We bring the mini excavator, pumps, sump basins where needed and perforated PVC or HDPE on the first footing drain repair trip. Trenches in damp shoreline ground on Liberty Bay are opened to grade, not scraped by eye, and short runs on the peninsula grid goes back when the drain is in near Liberty Bay.

How the work goes

Before we show up near Virginia Point you should know the sequence. We diagnose. We excavate the foundation, which on larger parcels along Keyport Road is where a clay layer under the village shelf sets the pace for sump basins where needed. We remove and replace, and footing drain repair is done.

Scope for footing drain repair here is three things: ground (a clay layer under the village shelf), lot (larger parcels along Keyport Road), pipe (copper from the Navy station's later decades). The gear is the same each trip, sump basins where needed included, and we say which of the three is driving the day before we start near the Naval Undersea Museum.

Small, tightly packed village lots near Liberty Bay, poly on the Brownsville Highway parcels below, beach deposits at Virginia Point around it: that's the Keyport version of footing drain repair, and a shared-system complaint from the whole street is the usual first clue.

Around Keyport

From Virginia Point to Port Orchard Bay and out around the Naval Undersea Museum and Keyport Road, footing drain repair is regular Keyport work. Ten minutes up Brownsville Highway; we schedule larger parcels along Keyport Road so you aren't waiting a whole day.