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Hi circus, Several months ago the local energy company offered an attractive rebate for various energy saving applications. I had already made a down payment to an old-timer to blow in insulation in my attic. When I asked him if his company was on the list to qualify me for the rebate, he told me it wasn't because he couldn't afford the bond the city required. He told me that if I got bids from the companys on the city's list of acceptable contractors I'd see where my rebate money was going to come from. That merely supported what I had already told my wife. While they were doing the job, the contractor's employee told me that most local insulation companies were newer, owned by younger guys, used new state-of-the-art equipment, drove better vehicles, did a larger volume of business and therefore were forced to employ basically anyone they could get. They did the job for just a little more than it would have cost me for the materials to do it myself, did a better job than I could have, and took care of details (at no extra cost) that I wouldn't even have known to do. So this is the parallel of VaTom's advice. Quality work, like quality equipment, is much more important than any whiz-bang scheme the government is going to come up with. All the best, Stan
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