Legal Question in Construction Law in California

Re: Patio enclosure problems(?)

Do you have any heat out there? And I don't mean heat that might flow in from an adjacent room. You need a heater that has been properly sized to account for the heat loss the room will suffer to avoid the condensation. Patio enclosures, almost by definition, are rarely thermally efficient so it may be very expensive to heat that room and use it in the Winter. If the room isn't heated, though, any warm moist air that is introduced during the day from the house will always condense on the cold glass and even the walls if they get cold enough during the night as the room cools down.

Nor is a patio enclosure designed to significantly cut down on noise. Many people don't realize it, but even highly efficient dual glazed windows are only marginally better than single glazed windows at cutting down noise. Most of the noise reduction that comes from upgrading from single to dual glaze comes from the superior sealing of the new units. If you were looking to significantly reduce outside noise, you'd have to specifically design for this problem. It often means having to get triple glazing with proper spacing and seals. This can be frightfully expensive. I suppose there may be patio enclosures that do this, but I've never seen one. What I'm telling you is that it sounds as though you're asking your patio enclosure to do things that it was never designed to do. Thus, verifying that you got the product you bought may do you no good since that product was never designed to do what you really wanted.