Footing Drain Repair, Tracyton WA

Footing Drain Repair in Tracyton

A district bill with no visible cause every winter on sloped waterfront lots on the inlet is a footing drain complaint nine times out of ten. We open dense hardpan on the plateau to the footing, replace the drain in fabric and rock, and give it an outlet that works near Riddell Road.

Mid-size lots on the Tracyton Boulevard grid near Olympic High School, lines running uphill from the beach road below, clay with groundwater along Tracyton Beach Road around it: that's the Tracyton version of footing drain repair, and water on Tracyton Beach Road is the usual first clue.

Exterior drain work in Washington is excavation and drainage, not plumbing, and footing drain repair is core Tracyton work for us. It pairs with the water line, often lines running uphill from the beach road, that shares the trench along a foundation on bluff parcels with natural seeps.

Dense hardpan on the plateau pushes groundwater at the foundation all winter. On Tracyton'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 Tracyton drains fail

On the plateau it's the usual silted corrugated footing drains and downspout lines ending at the foundation. Service lines from Silverdale Water District meters at the road are usually copper or polyethylene from the 1960s through the 1980s, and they tend to fail at fittings and at the house entry.

A wet bank that may or may not be a leak on mid-size lots on the Tracyton Boulevard grid is usually water with nowhere to go in clay with groundwater along Tracyton Beach Road. Footing drain repair gives it somewhere: we remove and replace, we excavate the foundation, and we backfill with rock with an outlet that actually discharges.

How the work goes

Remove and replace comes first; excavate the foundation follows, and on bluff parcels with natural seeps with seeps and springs in the Dyes Inlet bluff it's usually the longest part; backfill with rock finishes. That's footing drain repair from Dyes Inlet to Tracyton Boulevard, with sump basins where needed on hand throughout.

On the truck for Tracyton: filter fabric and clean, sump basins where needed, pumps, the mini excavator. Whether footing drain repair is a morning or a day on plateau lots near Olympic High comes down to seeps and springs in the Dyes Inlet bluff and whether the line is galvanized on the older waterfront cabins.

Homes near Olympic High School date from 1950s-to-1980s ranch homes and waterfront cabins, which usually means lines running uphill from the beach road. Add clay with groundwater along Tracyton Beach Road and mid-size lots on the Tracyton Boulevard grid, and water on Tracyton Beach Road is how most people end up needing footing drain repair.

Around Tracyton

Plateau lots near Olympic High near Tracyton Boulevard or Fairgrounds Road, seeps and springs in the Dyes Inlet bluff or not, footing drain repair gets the same crew and the same equipment. Minutes from our base, day or night.