Kingston, WA

Kingston is a ferry town with a small core near the terminal and Highway 104, surrounded by wooded acreage where the service line from a Kitsap PUD meter at the road to the house can run three, four or five hundred feet through second-growth fir and salal. Those long runs are the whole story of leak detection here. A break in the middle of a 400-foot polyethylene line under a gravel driveway will not surface in winter because the ground is already saturated, and it will not surface in summer because the outwash drains. It shows up on the PUD bill, or as a pressure drop, or not at all until the line fails completely.

We locate those breaks from the meter end with acoustic equipment, using a correlator across the run to narrow the position and a ground microphone to pinpoint it, and we dig only at the break. On a driveway that may mean one neat excavation and a cut-and-couple repair. On a line that has failed twice already it may mean pulling a new continuous HDPE line with the mini excavator, which is often cheaper than the third and fourth spot repairs would be.

In the Kingston townsite and along Appletree Cove the lots are smaller and older, and we see copper and galvanized lines on homes from the 1950s through the 1970s. Those tend to fail at fittings and at the point where the line enters a crawlspace. We handle those the same way: locate, confirm, open the ground, repair, restore. Everything is done by our crew with our equipment, and we clean up like it's our own yard.

North Kitsap gets overlooked by companies based in Tacoma or Seattle. We're on the peninsula and we come when you call. 360 Leak Finders, (206) 354-9906, around the clock.

Leak detection in Kingston

Kingston's acreage lots along Miller Bay Road, Indianola Road and South Kingston Road have the longest runs in North Kitsap short of Bainbridge, and the hardpan under them stays saturated all winter. A correlator across the run and a ground microphone at the correlated spot is how those get found. Near the ferry terminal the lots are small and the lines are old.

Water line repair and replacement in Kingston

Most Kingston replacements are long continuous HDPE pulls under gravel driveways through second-growth fir. Near town it's copper and galvanized repairs at foundations and fittings on 1950s to 70s homes. We stage pipe on the trailer because the nearest supply house is a long way from the north end.

Exterior drains in Kingston

Kingston's till plateau holds water, and the Appletree Cove and Miller Bay shoreline lots take runoff from above. Footing drains and interceptor drains are routine here. On the beach lots the water table is close and drains need gravity outlets to the beach side.

Excavation in Kingston

North Kitsap hardpan with roots and the occasional boulder. Long gravel driveways that have to stay passable for the homeowner. We bring the mini excavator on every Kingston call and plan the trench so you can still get to the house.