Then there is the Puget Sound winter. Sheltered compared with Hansville but still exposed to wind across Liberty Bay in winter storms. King tides push water into the lowest crawlspaces and drains on the peninsula. The December 2022 freeze and the January 2024 cold snap caught the older houses' uninsulated crawlspaces and exposed hose bibs. At about 35 to 40 minutes from Port Orchard up Highway 3 and out State Route 308 from Port Orchard, Keyport is a regular line on our schedule, not a special trip.
Why hydro jetting is a little different in Keyport
Rainy season in Keyport fills parking lot catch basins with needles, gravel and silt. We jet storm lines for local businesses and multifamily properties before the November storms and after the first flood, basin to basin, so the lot drains the way it was designed to.
Start with the homes. Keyport is a compact village of early-1900s through 1950s houses built for torpedo station workers, with a handful of newer homes squeezed onto the waterfront. Small lots, short setbacks, and plumbing that has been patched for a century: galvanized supply, cast iron drains, and additions with whatever pipe was on hand.
Local conditions that affect hydro jetting in Keyport
Ask a Keyport homeowner what goes wrong with plumbing here and you will usually hear a version of this: Side sewer roots and offsets in the village's older clay lines
Many Keyport homes are on private wells, and a well cannot feed a jetter for long. Our truck carries its own water supply, which is the difference between a thorough jetting and a job cut short when the pressure tank runs dry.
Here is a Keyport detail that changes how we approach the job: Frozen hose bibs and crawlspace lines in the recent cold snaps
Wooded lots around Keyport send fir, cedar and maple roots into any sewer joint that leaks a little water. Jetting with a root nozzle removes the fine hairs a cutting head leaves, and the camera afterward shows where the roots got in so you can plan a repair or a cleaning schedule.
Signs Keyport homeowners call us for hydro jetting
Worth a call
- Grease smell comes up through a kitchen drain even after cleaning
- A parking lot catch basin overflows during heavy rain
- Sand or silt keeps settling in a floor or yard drain
- A plumber told you the only fix was replacement, and you want the pipe cleaned and filmed first
- The same kitchen or main line has been cabled more than once in the past year
How we handle hydro jetting in Keyport
Expect a Keyport hydro jetting call to go like this: describe the history, inspect the access and quote, camera the line when the pipe is in question, jet from the downstream end, verify and show you, then set a schedule if the line needs one. If the plan changes mid-job, we stop and re-quote rather than surprise you on the invoice.
Read the full step-by-step for hydro jetting →
Keyport neighborhoods and areas we serve
Whether you are near Liberty Bay and Port Orchard Bay and Naval Undersea Museum or further out toward South Keyport and the Brownsville road or Virginia Point, Keyport addresses get the same arrival window and the same flat price.
Hydro Jetting questions from Keyport
Is hydro jetting safe for the old pipes in my Keyport house?
When the pressure and nozzle match the pipe, yes. On older cast iron or any line with unknown history we run the camera first so we are not jetting a pipe that is already broken.
Do you offer scheduled jetting for Keyport businesses?
We do. Restaurants, apartment complexes and commercial lots in Kitsap County use us for quarterly or semiannual grease line and storm drain service, with records kept for each line.
Will you show me the pipe after jetting in Keyport?
On main lines we run the camera afterward and show you the footage. You see the clean wall and anything that still needs attention, which keeps the conversation about repairs honest.
Do you bring the jetting truck to Keyport?
Yes. Keyport is inside our regular service area, and the jetting rig travels anywhere in Kitsap County with its own water on board.
How is jetting different from snaking?
A cable bores a hole through the blockage. A jetter cleans the inside wall of the pipe with high-pressure water and flushes the debris out. Snaking is faster and cheaper for a simple clog. Jetting is the fix for grease, scale, silt and lines that keep clogging.
Our 200-plus Google reviews come from Kitsap County neighbors, many of them in and around Keyport. Read a few before you call; they say more about how we work than we could.