Just before moving onto fourth street, I had my first experience with the patio. It was early Summer and I hadn’t spent to much time on the patio yet since the weather wasn’t that great yet. It started to rain and then the thunder and lightning came in. We were tucked into a spot where the wind wasn’t blowing at us that much and so we were safe.

Pretty soon, I noticed that there was water running down the wall of the garage that should have been protected by the patio cover. The water should have ran off the garage, onto the patio cover, to the gutter, and then down the drain. I quickly realized that the water was running right down the wall and eventually by a electric socket and this scared me a bit. The stereo was unplugged and after the storm lightened up, we made our way inside.

The patio cover was partially missing at one and and the structural supports for it was less then I would have liked (see image at right). Once summer came around, I wasn’t focused on getting things fixed with a wedding, honeymoon, and merging houses.

Fall came and on Labor day weekend my family helped re-roof the garage. The area between the patio and garage roof was covered with roofing materials and leafs and that stopped the water. This allowed water to flow down there instead of continuing down the cover. What was left of the cover was removed