Lofall Footing Drain Repair

Drainage in Lofall

Find the outlet first. On small farms off Pioneer Way 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 Lofall Road, a test pit at the uphill corner through bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore shows which.

1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms left Lofall with galvanized on canal-side cabins on parcels along Highway 3. In beach deposits below the bluff the first sign is a power bill that climbs, sometimes a pressure tank that won't hold, rarely a puddle, which is why footing drain repair starts by listening.

Exterior drain work in Washington is excavation and drainage, not plumbing, and footing drain repair is core Lofall work for us. It pairs with the water line, often galvanized on canal-side cabins, that shares the trench along a foundation on waterfront on Hood Canal.

Bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore pushes groundwater at the foundation all winter. On Lofall's sloped lots the uphill walls are the problem, and a curtain drain above the house often beats opening the whole perimeter. We diagnose first, excavate only what needs it.

Why Lofall drains fail

French drains with real outlets, regraded swales and footing drain replacements make up most of the drain work. We'll show you what we find and give you an honest comparison.

A pressure tank that won't hold on parcels along Highway 3 is usually water with nowhere to go in beach deposits below the bluff. Footing drain repair gives it somewhere: we diagnose, we remove and replace, and we restore with an outlet that actually discharges.

How the work goes

Three steps carry most of the weight on waterfront on Hood Canal: diagnose, remove and replace, restore. Near Hood Canal that has meant working sump basins where needed around roots and till along Pioneer Way and brittle 1970s polyethylene; the sequence doesn't change, the hours do.

Scope for footing drain repair here is three things: ground (roots and till along Pioneer Way), lot (acreage along Lofall Road), pipe (HDPE replacements pulled in one piece). The gear is the same each trip, filter fabric and clean included, and we say which of the three is driving the day before we start near the Hood Canal Bridge.

Parcels along Highway 3 near Vinland, galvanized on canal-side cabins below, beach deposits below the bluff around it: that's the Lofall version of footing drain repair, and a power bill that climbs is the usual first clue.

Around Lofall

From Hood Canal to Highway 3 and out around the Hood Canal Bridge and Port Gamble, footing drain repair is regular Lofall work. About half an hour north of Poulsbo; we schedule acreage along Lofall Road so you aren't waiting a whole day.