eVoLve Theme White Space Issue

I searched and found a ton of ‘whitespace’ issues, so sorry to creat another one, but I didn’t find an answer that worked for me.

All I did was removed the padding around the header and it makes a 40px whitespace line at the top of the site when viewing it in Chrome and IE7 makes about a 60px whitespace line above the header. It is completely ignoring the background color of the site, and that’s what’s really throwing me off? I tried a negative margin (hate doing that), but obviously it didn’t work well because the size of the gap is different for each browser…

My sites running locally so I don’t have a link, but I can post a screenshot if needed. Again, the ONLY code I changed was removing the header padding.