Water Line Repair in Lofall, WA

How we do water Line Repair here

The repair is quick; getting to the pipe through hardpan a foot down on the uplands is the work. Hand tools near a foundation, the mini excavator on parcels along Highway 3, spoils on tarps, a pump if the pit fills. Then a cut-and-couple on brittle 1970s polyethylene, a test, and the surface back.

Waterfront on Hood Canal near the Hood Canal Bridge, 200- to 400-foot poly well lines below, bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore around it: that's the Lofall version of water line repair, and a power bill that climbs is the usual first clue.

Lots here are waterfront on Hood Canal, and the run from the meter is the owner's. Kitsap PUD or a private well's responsibility ends at the meter. That private line through roots and till along Pioneer Way is exactly what water line repair covers, from where we call in locates to where we expose and assess.

A well pump cycling all night on parcels along Highway 3 usually ends with a brass coupling where brittle 1970s polyethylene split. We bed the repair in gravel rather than hardpan a foot down on the uplands, pressure test before backfill, and the trench line disappears instead of settling for five years.

What's in the ground in Lofall

Long poly well lines from the 1970s and 80s that have gone brittle. 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.

We transition HDPE replacements pulled in one piece to new pipe with the right fitting: dielectric where metals meet, buried-rated compression on the plastic side, tracer wire alongside through roots and till along Pioneer Way. Then we expose and assess on acreage along Lofall Road and the surface goes back.

The job, step by step

Three steps carry most of the weight on acreage along Lofall Road: call in locates, open the ground, expose and assess. Near Vinland that has meant working pea gravel bedding around beach deposits below the bluff and HDPE replacements pulled in one piece; the sequence doesn't change, the hours do.

Small farms off Pioneer Way over beach deposits below the bluff is a different water line repair day than a flat lot in sand. We bring transition fittings for copper, pea gravel bedding and the machine, and tell you up front whether galvanized on canal-side cabins is going to make it a long one near Hood Canal.

From the Hood Canal Bridge to Vinland the pattern holds for water line repair: 200- to 400-foot poly well lines, bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore, waterfront on Hood Canal, and an owner who noticed a power bill that climbs first.

Lofall coverage

Our water line repair calls in Lofall cover Vinland, Pioneer Way, Hood Canal and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, about half an hour north of Poulsbo, and we answer 24 hours a day with transition fittings for copper on board.