From the Narrows bridge landing to the head of Wollochet Bay, this stretch sits between our shop and the harbor — right on the daily route.
Wollochet is the peninsula’s first exit off the Narrows: Point Fosdick’s condos and ramblers near Olympic Village, the older bay-front houses down Wollochet Drive, Cromwell’s waterfront cottages at the end of the road. It sits squarely between Fox Island and downtown Gig Harbor, which puts every Wollochet address on the route the truck runs anyway.
Much of Wollochet went up in one long wave from the late 60s through the 80s — single-story houses with laundry in the garage, original 240-volt dryer circuits and, increasingly, second-generation appliances chosen by a second or third owner. Garage laundry here fights damp winters and cold concrete: stiffened seals, weeping hoses, corroded terminals. The visit inspects the whole water path on garage machines, because garage faults cluster in the wet half of the washer.
Point Fosdick’s condos run stacked and compact laundry pairs behind closet doors, with ventless dryers whose condensate paths nobody told the owner about. The bay-front homes trade that problem for salt — condensers pitting, hinge steel rusting, connectors greening. Two different maintenance briefings, both delivered with the repair rather than sold separately.
ZIP, address, and what the machine is doing — Neil calls back with a real window.
Seventies and eighties houses, condo stacks and bay-front salt give Wollochet its own three pages.
Wollochet’s dryers live in garages. The single-story houses that went up from the late 60s through the 80s put the laundry pair beside the car,…
Read the Wollochet page →A Wollochet washer usually stands on garage concrete next to a hose bib that has not been touched since the Carter administration. Cold, damp and…
Read the Wollochet page →Wollochet runs its refrigerators the way its houses were built: a kitchen unit in a rambler alcove framed for a smaller 1970s cabinet, and a garage…
Read the Wollochet page →Hoses and seals stiffen on unheated concrete — the Wollochet garage signature. Routine repair, and the notes name which rubber the next winter will go after.
Lint packing the heat exchanger and a sluggish condensate pump, nearly every time. A deep clean and a timed test load bring the cycle back, and Neil leaves the cleaning interval written on the machine.
Ten minutes from the shop on a normal morning, and Wollochet is on the truck’s daily line between the island and the harbor. Same-day slots are realistic on weekdays.
Minutes down the road from the island shop, on the line the truck runs every day. Morning calls usually land same-day windows.
Call (564) 221-8289Phone, ZIP, address and what the machine is doing. Neil calls back with a window.