Silverdale Water Line Repair

Water Line Repair in Silverdale: what to expect

What we expose in Silverdale is usually gray polybutylene from the 1980s or insert fittings with failed clamps: steel fails at threads, copper at fittings, poly at splits and clamps. Each gets the right transition. If what's in the hole under acreage out Anderson Hill Road is at the end of its life, we say so before we close it.

We've seen a split poly line with no warning on tight side yards full of irrigation near Clear Creek and pressure that drops when the sprinklers run by Silverdale Way. Both times the line was insert fittings with failed clamps, the ground was loose outwash on the Clear Creek flats, and the fix was water line repair done once.

Every water line repair job is pressure tested before backfill and tied in with brass or stainless rated for burial. Interior-grade fittings corrode in loose outwash on the Clear Creek flats; we've dug enough out from under tight side yards full of irrigation in Silverdale to know.

The repair is quick; getting to the pipe through a winter water table close to the surface is the work. Hand tools near a foundation, the mini excavator on acreage out Anderson Hill Road, spoils on tarps, a pump if the pit fills. Then a cut-and-couple on gray polybutylene from the 1980s, a test, and the surface back.

Pipe and soil in Silverdale

When we expose polybutylene in Silverdale we recommend replacing the whole run, because the material fails from the inside and a repair in one spot leaves the same pipe everywhere else. Whether the problem is a wet spot by the meter on a cul-de-sac off Silverdale Way or a dropped pressure reading at a commercial building near the mall, 360 Leak Finders answers 24/7 at (206) 354-9906.

Transition fittings for copper, brass and stainless buried-rated, pumps and the machine ride on every water line repair trip to Silverdale, because trench walls that slough near Dyes Inlet and insert fittings with failed clamps on 60- to 120-foot subdivision runs don't give second chances for a forgotten fitting.

What happens on site

Before we show up near Silverdale Way you should know the sequence. We pinpoint first. We expose and assess, which on Ridgetop and Island Lake cul-de-sacs is where dense hardpan up on Ridgetop sets the pace for transition fittings for copper. We open the ground, and water line repair is done.

Scope for water line repair here is three things: ground (dense hardpan up on Ridgetop), lot (Ridgetop and Island Lake cul-de-sacs), pipe (first-generation polyethylene that has gone brittle). The gear is the same each trip, transition fittings for copper included, and we say which of the three is driving the day before we start near the Kitsap Mall.

If you're near Clear Creek or Silverdale Way and you've noticed a split poly line with no warning, the odds are on insert fittings with failed clamps in loose outwash on the Clear Creek flats. That's a job for water line repair, not a guess with a shovel.

Around Silverdale

From Silverdale Way to Bucklin Hill and out around the Kitsap Mall and Anderson Hill Road, water line repair is regular Silverdale work. Our home base; we schedule Ridgetop and Island Lake cul-de-sacs so you aren't waiting a whole day.