bobbi: Cleyeras are prone to leaf spot. Is it branchs or is it on of the several cuttings that growers put in the container? If it is Branches you may have some root die back problems. Art

We get small orders rattling around in a huge box, as some others have said. You should have seen the box when my wife ordered a Japanese thimble! I don't recall ever getting a broken or leaky package. Guess we've been lucky. But Anglophilia, I'm a jam maker and seedless raspberry sounds wonderful. I'm going to have to try that....I mail jam to family out of state and they always get new tea towels with it because I put each jar inside a sealed zip bag within a second sealed zip bag with a paper towel or two. Then I wrap tea towels around each jar and rubber-band them. I use a box small enough to fit snugly. It doesn't look like a professional packaging job, but it protects everything and insures against messes.

JuneKnow...When I clean them with a damp sponge, moisture collects in the crevice between the trim and the door face. But the paint is also coming off too easily and there are a few places where it has chipped off. I stripped the stain off and painted my old cabinets, and didn't have this problem.

Moi? Who is "he"? I don't think the difficulties of vent duct size increases can be clear without more information. Your 6-inch duct rises straight to the roof? If there are no joists, rafters, or inconvenient plumbing in the way of growing the hole radius by an inch, then hole sizes just need to be enlarged and a new roof cap used. Anyway, I don't think the duct is your issue. The issue is how greasy air is treated by the hood. That peripheral slot scheme leading to undersized mesh filters seems to me to add a lot of restriction such the the blower might pull air through unintended paths in the sheet metal causing grease condensation where it isn't wanted. The leak might be amenable to being sealed, but I myself would upgrade. Upstream in this thread the flow rate is given as 585 CFM. With the peripheral slot and mesh filter design, I'd be surprised if more than 300 CFM were actually passing into the hood. A 6-inch duct has a sectional area of 0.2 sq. ft. So 300/.2 = 1500 ft/min, right in the middle of the recommended range of duct velocities. An 8-inch duct would be a bit too large for this case. A proper baffled hood of this overall size, however, with a blower sized to provide the desired 90 ft/min through the entire hood entry aperture, might be best served with an 8-inch duct. I suggest the following experiment. Take a pan with some peanut oil in it and heat to the vapor point of the peanut oil. Observe whether the hood is actually collecting all of the vapor. Compare behavior with windows and doors shut to operation with at least one window wide open. What is the nature of your make-up air 'system'?