Lofall, WA

Lofall is the rural stretch of North Kitsap between Poulsbo and the Hood Canal Bridge: acreage parcels along Lofall Road, Pioneer Way and Highway 3, small farms, and a strip of homes on the Hood Canal shoreline. Most homes out here are on private wells or small Kitsap PUD systems, and the water line from the well house or meter to the house routinely runs two to four hundred feet through dense glacial till. When one of those lines leaks, the first sign is usually a well pump that cycles constantly or a pressure tank that never holds, not a puddle.

We locate on well systems the same way we do on utility lines, from the pressure side with acoustic equipment and a correlator, and we can usually tell whether the problem is in the buried line or back at the pump and tank before anyone digs. If it's the line, we pinpoint the break and open the ground there with the mini excavator. On hardpan that is slow digging by hand and fast with a bucket, which is why we bring the machine on every Lofall call.

For lines that have failed more than once, or old polyethylene that is brittle and cracking, a continuous HDPE replacement pulled in one piece is often the better long-term answer than a third spot repair. We'll show you what we find and give you an honest comparison. Along the Hood Canal waterfront the lots are older and the lines are shorter, but the bluff clay holds water and the beach deposits drain, so acoustic locating is still the only reliable way to find the break.

Lofall is a long way for most companies. Call 360 Leak Finders at (206) 354-9906 and we'll head north with the gear to find it and fix it on the same trip.

Leak detection in Lofall

Lofall is well country. Locates start at the pressure tank, we isolate the buried line from the pump and the house, and then it's a correlator across a 200- to 400-foot run through hardpan and a ground microphone at the correlated spot. The Hood Canal waterfront lots are older and shorter.

Water line repair and replacement in Lofall

Long poly well lines from the 1970s and 80s that have gone brittle. Where one has failed before we recommend a continuous HDPE replacement pulled in one piece with the mini excavator. Waterfront cabin lines are galvanized and copper transitions.

Exterior drains in Lofall

Till uplands that hold water, small farm parcels with ponding, and Hood Canal bluff lots with seeps. French drains with real outlets, regraded swales and footing drain replacements make up most of the drain work.

Excavation in Lofall

Hardpan, roots and long runs on acreage. The mini excavator comes on every Lofall call because hand digging a 300-foot run through till is not a reasonable plan.