French Drain & Yard Drainage, Kitsap County WA

French drains, curtain drains, catch basins and swales that move water away from foundations, driveways and soggy lawns.

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Hand-dug trench leading to a cedar-shingled cabin wall

If a bill or a pump that won't rest in Kitsap County, the cause is usually 1980s polybutylene by the mile that has met clay on the bluffs. French drain installation here means we finish with perforated HDPE or PVC, basins and outlet at the mark, and put runs from twenty feet to half a mile back the way we found it.

How we handle drains here

Dry wells only work in soil that drains, which rules out peat in the creek bottoms under runs from twenty feet to half a mile. Where there's no gravity outlet, a sump and pump at the low point is the honest answer. We'll tell you which your Kitsap County lot allows before designing anything.

Our French drain installation notes on Kitsap County say the same thing: expect long poly well lines on acreage, expect peat in the creek bottoms on 40-foot city lots to 20-acre parcels, expect a leak that never surfaces at all before anything visible near Liberty Bay.

Drainage problems in Kitsap County come straight out of the geology. Peat in the creek bottoms doesn't absorb much, so water on 40-foot city lots to 20-acre parcels has to be carried away, and when the old drains fail it ends up at the foundation. French drain installation is how we build drains that still flow in twenty years.

A bill or a pump that won't rest on runs from twenty feet to half a mile is a drainage design problem, not a mystery. We read where water comes from across clay on the bluffs, where it can go near Sinclair Inlet, and build the drain between the two with fabric, rock and grade.

Why Kitsap County drains fail

The whole peninsula was shaped by the glacier, and the glacier didn't leave much that drains. Till and clay hold water and surface it far from the break.

Exterior drain work in Washington is excavation and drainage, not plumbing, and French drain installation is core Kitsap County work for us. It pairs with the water line, often long poly well lines on acreage, that shares the trench along a foundation on subdivisions and farms alike.

How the work goes

A French drain installation visit to Kitsap County runs: finish, then basins and outlet, then fabric, rock, pipe, rock. The middle step is where hardpan on the uplands and subdivisions and farms alike set the pace, and perforated HDPE or PVC is what gets it done near Point No Point.

What makes French drain installation in Kitsap County quick or slow: hardpan on the uplands, island drives and shoreline bluffs, wartime galvanized to modern HDPE. What doesn't change: perforated HDPE or PVC, pop-up emitters, dry well, pumps and the mini excavator on the first trip to Dyes Inlet.

If you're near Liberty Bay or Point No Point and you've noticed a leak that never surfaces at all, the odds are on long poly well lines on acreage in peat in the creek bottoms. That's a job for French drain installation, not a guess with a shovel.

Around Kitsap County

Point No Point, Highway 3, Dyes Inlet, the Agate Pass Bridge: near any of them, French drain installation is within our everyday range. Anywhere on the peninsula, every day, with the mini excavator on the trailer for island drives and shoreline bluffs.

Ready when you are

If a crawlspace wet every winter in Kitsap County, call (206) 354-9906. We'll say honestly what we think it is, finish to find it in 1980s polybutylene by the mile, and fix it.

On the job

French Drain & Yard Drainage, as it actually looks

Pea gravel bedding around a new black water line in an excavation

Leaf-covered garden path smoothed and restored after trenching

Gravel driveway and landscaping restored below a wooded home

Clean machine-cut trench across a lawn with spoils piled on a tarp beside it

FAQ

French Drain & Yard Drainage in Kitsap County: questions

We're between the Agate Pass Bridge and the Hood Canal Bridge. Covered for French drain installation?

Covered. That stretch of Kitsap County is anywhere on the peninsula, every day, and we finish there every week.

Is Kitsap County a long drive for French drain installation?

No. Anywhere on the peninsula, every day. We're a Kitsap company with perforated HDPE or PVC on the truck, not a crew on the ferry.

Is a long well line on subdivisions and farms alike a problem for French drain installation?

No. A correlator at each end narrows the break in every material of the last century and the ground microphone pinpoints it. Long runs through outwash in the valleys are where locating pays for itself.

Why didn't my leak show up as a wet spot?

Because of outwash in the valleys under island drives and shoreline bluffs. Water drains or travels along the trench and surfaces far from wartime galvanized to modern HDPE. Water surfacing far from the break is a more common first sign in Kitsap County than a puddle.

What pipe will you find under a Kitsap County home during French drain installation?

Usually 1980s polybutylene by the mile or long poly well lines on acreage, since most housing on runs from twenty feet to half a mile dates from wartime housing, mid-century suburbs and the 1980s boom. We carry transition fittings for all of it.

Other Kitsap County services

Underground Water Leak Detection →Water Line Repair →Water Line Replacement →New Water Service Line Installation →24/7 Emergency Water Line Repair →High Water Bill Leak Investigation →Well Water Line Leak Detection →Irrigation Leak Detection →Slab Leak Detection →Commercial & Multi-Family Leak Detection →Excavation & Trenching →Exterior Drain Line Repair →Footing Drain Repair →Downspout Drain Line Repair →Water & Utility Line Locating →Interior Water Leak Detection →Interior Water Line Repair →Whole-House Water Line Replacement (Repipe) →New Interior Water Line Installation →

French Drain & Yard Drainage in Kitsap County?

We answer 24 hours a day. We locate before we dig, and we handle the whole job with our own crew and equipment.

Call (206) 354-9906