My husband is looking but not finding daytime work.. :( My mom is anything but frail, I weigh her every morning to make sure she's not gaining weight, she's been up and down.. Right now she's at 213 pounds.. Yep, she's 85 years old.. Remember though, she had colon cancer surgery before we moved, she uses that as every excuse as to why she can't move.. Oh, also, she fell the night before we moved. She's got a torn rotater cuff on her right shoulder.. So, yes I do more then my share around here.. I have to brush her hair everyday cause she can't lift her arm over her head.. It's the good thing we never had kids, just the husband and the dog and the mom is more then enough for me right now, and I'm no youngster anymore either..

I am on natural gas and when I started playing with the air shutter I found that they needed to be almost all the way open to maybe a little closed to get the perfect flame and no lifting. While you really had to close the air shutter almost completely to get a orange/wobbly flame and smoke. I found that the rest of the adjustments gave a blue flame. However, there was lifting or what I will call blending of the flames. For example, on most of the burners, when the port was 50-75% closed, the inner most ring would be a wider fuzzy flame that did look like it was lifting but would meld together. When you got a little shy of full open, I found that this gave the most individual tight flames on each port. While adjusting up and down a quarter turn didn't at first seem to make much of a difference, I noticed lifting on some ports. You also can feel the difference in heat output on high as well. The tighter the flames got and no lifting on all ports, I could feel a noticeable change. I also found that by doing this when its dark out and can turn off/down the lights its much easier to see the flame. Sort of like Trevor's video. What might look like a nice flame can turn out to really be lifting under regular lighting. Although, I adjusted I am not sure if mine is OK or not. I haven't had a chance to re-simmer yet. Thus, not sure if I did it right yet ;).

I was planning on writing a follow up after the kids get in bed. I just spent 1.5 hrs with our cab maker (love him) so I didn't have time before dinner. I'll be back soon!

Not a pro, but can share my thoughts. We have both orange peel and smooth walls. The textured hides the imperfections. Not so with the texture. Is it a starter home or forever home? Kids, tricycles, pets? Just something to think about. It’s personal preference.