“One thing I learned from Sophie (too late in my case!) but most KD do not allow the extra (3" each side I believe) width between upper cabinets/capture space above the cook top.” Partim - Sumac is talking about the ideal width of a hood over a cooktop or range. If you have a 30” cooktop or range, ideally the hood should be 36” wide (3” overhang on each side) to capture smoke and grease that would otherwise escape on the sides. However, that is for an ideal situation. When you have a small kitchen like the OP’s, every inch of upper cabinet space is valuable and you may not want to forego that cabinet space for the wider hood. In that situation, a 30” hood over a 30” cooktop/range is fine. Especially if you have upper cabinets abutting the hood to help corral the smoke/grease. Where you can otherwise gain capture of smoke and grease with your hood is front-to-back. Many lower-cost hoods are only 20” deep front-to-back, which means your front burners aren’t covered. Try to find a hood that is 24” deep, or, if that is out of your price range, no less than 22” deep.

Sounds like time to call in a professional plumber to check everything out.

He gets six and 3/4 days and I get 1/4. I am watching Milk Street even as I type- I intensely dislike this Chris guy. Outside of his serial marrying, affair divorce thing he has going (what women?) he is snide and abrasive. Why are all his co-cooks so short? He tastes a dish somewhere-fabulous! Marvelous! takes it back and makes some sort of bizarre not the same dish. His thing. I neglected to say I am not a Hallmark channel fan but I don't have much opportunity to object to it. PBS, oh mercy. What has gone wrong there? All we get is athon-ing. They are telling us that we are going to get TWO Whole Weeks of no fundraising. Oh GEE. If I send money I get to watch them beg for money. Do they feed it to chickens? We get rerun shows when we get shows and the occasional spate of new stuff shown back to back as late as midnight(?) like glutting on it and don't tell me they don't have ads. They show many of the same ads as mainstream TV plus the special ones for kitchen equipment etc for the cooking shows. Hmmmm. Add a couple more and call it good. Seems like a death spiral as they compete with streaming. Sorry for the diversion. Back to Hallmark-it is the visual version of romance novels so popular with so many. soothing I suppose.

Fuse sockets have a spring tab contact that is similar to a light socket. It is subject to corrosion over time and can sometimes lose its "spring". The high, constant draw from a heater may have increased the heat at the fuse and it didn't handle current as well. Removing and replacing it may have wiped off some of the corrosion and/or made up for any lack of tension on the center contact. If you can completely turn off that circuit, you can use a standard soft pencil eraser to clean off the tab in the socket and the center post on the fuse. It doesn't sound like much of a fix, but it often works very well. Bruce