French Drain & Yard Drainage in Lofall, WA

How we handle drains here

A French drain in Lofall is designed around the outlet. With hardpan a foot down on the uplands the drain can't rely on infiltration; it carries water to daylight, a dry well where ground allows, or a storm connection. We trench acreage along Lofall Road on grade, line with fabric, lay perforated pipe on washed rock, and set basins at the low points.

Homes near the Hood Canal Bridge date from 1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms, which usually means HDPE replacements pulled in one piece. Add roots and till along Pioneer Way and parcels along Highway 3, and pressure dropping at the barn is how most people end up needing French drain installation.

We bring the mini excavator, pumps, filter fabric and clean washed drain rock on the first French drain installation trip. Trenches in bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore are opened to grade, not scraped by eye, and waterfront on Hood Canal goes back when the drain is in near the Hood Canal Bridge.

Most failed French drains we dig up in Lofall were built without fabric, in hardpan a foot down on the uplands, with no real grade; they silted shut in a few years. Ours use washed rock, fabric wrapped over, and a trench bottom shot to grade on acreage along Lofall Road, which is why they still flow near Port Gamble.

Ground and water in Lofall

Till uplands that hold water, small farm parcels with ponding, and Hood Canal bluff lots with seeps. 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.

Homes from 1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms near the Hood Canal Bridge got corrugated pipe or clay tile laid in bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore without fabric. On waterfront on Hood Canal those are silted, crushed or parted now. For French drain installation we finish and replace them on a true grade to a working outlet.

What to expect

The order is fixed: fabric, rock, pipe, rock, finish, read the water. In Lofall the variables are beach deposits below the bluff and 200- to 400-foot poly well lines under small farms off Pioneer Way, and we've handled both near Pioneer Way enough to give an honest window for French drain installation.

We carry filter fabric and clean washed drain rock on every French drain installation call so nothing becomes a second visit to Vinland. Scope in Lofall is set by beach deposits below the bluff, small farms off Pioneer Way and the condition of galvanized on canal-side cabins.

From the Hood Canal Bridge to Kitsap Memorial State Park the pattern holds for French drain installation: HDPE replacements pulled in one piece, roots and till along Pioneer Way, parcels along Highway 3, and an owner who noticed pressure dropping at the barn first.

Where we work

We do French drain installation across all of Lofall, including around Kitsap Memorial State Park, Pioneer Way and Vinland. About half an hour north of Poulsbo, and emergencies on small farms off Pioneer Way dispatch immediately, any hour.