[DaddyG]

Same thing happened to me. Four roof surfaces all ran off in one spot. Gutters fixed the problem.

[Sherry8bal]

Originally Posted by Accidental1

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.

[vintageogauge]

Originally Posted by Sherry8bal

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.

And the good thing is gutters are one of the bargains available down here, so much cheaper than up north.

[villagetinker]

We added gutters to the front of the house only, due to staining on the driveway. The rest of the house has no gutters (4000 sq. ft. of roof) and we do not have any washouts or ruts. The house is going on 7.5 years old. We did have some recent problems due to the recent large amount of rain, but this was in the area with gutters, the pop-up drains were located in an area that could not handle the additional rainfall, so $500 to relocate the drains and re-sod the lawn in that area.