Can this be fixed

[csgray]

We went and looked at a house for sale and one thing that really turned my husband off was this situation: Someone had decided to enclose a space of the garage which, from what I can tell, had formerly been under about 6 feet of overhanging roof, covered but open. In order to enclose the space to make a laundry area they put a 24 foot long wall under the VERY END of the overhang and poured a slab for a floor, the gutter is literally against the edge of the wall. There are signs of water intrusion on the inside of this wall at the base, and the gutter even lacks a downspout. The garage is plenty big but this newly enclosed space now contains the newer hot water heater and the pump, and the washer and dryer are wired and plumbed inside the new wall. The pump and hot water heater are located against the 6 foot long end wall closest to the house.

My question is this: how can this be fixed without spending a fortune? How outrageous would it be to just remove the new water stained wall and put the washer and dryer on the opposite wall, which would once again be the outside wall of the garage with a 6 foot overhang. I think it was a bad idea to put in the wall, is it unreasonable to just undo the mistake and put things back the way they were? Guestimates on labor time involved to basically just move things over and take out a wall, or is there another solution? I can't think that a gutter right against the wall with no eave at all can be a good thing in Puna. Kona maybe, but not Puna.

Mahalo for any free advice on this.

Carol

[billy]

Yes, what you can do is put 9 ft rafters along side the other rafters and let them stick out 3 ft and then move gutter out to there and install the roofing. might not be to code but sounds like maybe its not anyway.you can spend 500.00 or 5000.00 to move it all back to the other side.

[csgray]

Mahalo, Billy. That seems like a doable solution.

Carol

[Kapohocat]

Hey billY what do you think if she extended the gutter down to a french drain or hydrostatic line and diverted the water away from the slab altogether?

Catherine Dumond
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[csgray]

I thought about that, but part of the problem is the fact that the roof goes out past the wall 1 inch at most, which is why the gutter is attached to the wall. I think I remember that it looked like someone had tried to caulk the space between the gutter and the roof at one point. My guess is there is as much water running behind the gutter as into it when we get heavy rains. I would love to go look at it in the rain, but we sure haven't had much of that.

Carol