Our new stove seemed to have a problem with leaking smoke and heat out of the top right burner in the back. After a few minutes of research we found out this is normal and all stoves have this vent hole to prevent explosions, but our old one never seemed to leak any smoke.

It only took about 10 minutes to take the old grid thing out and make room for it in the new vent hole, which seems to have stopped the leaking smoke problem.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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