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Old 01-30-2021, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Accidental1 View Post
Just bought a new home and noticed some puddling of water on my garage floor yesterday after Wednesday nights rain. Is this common? Also, my home doesn't have gutters all the way around and I noticed while shopping for the home that that seems to be an upgrade. Can anyone explain why gutters around the house isn't the standard down here?

Thanks for all of the responses and after reading them I realized I wasn't very descriptive about where the water is. It was scattered about on the floor probably 1/2 dozen places (all away from the garage doors and none near where the car was parked). There is no obvious damage to ceiling or walls. I believe all locations were near the contraction joints in the floor.
With all the rain we get here, you MUST HAVE gutters. Otherwise you will end up with ruts all around your house where the water drips off the roof and then water pools up where you don't want it to.