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- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Path: sparky!uunet!hobbes!rogerv
- From: rogerv@sco.COM (Roger Vortman)
- Subject: Re: DIY blown-in insulation
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:44:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.214410.9368@sco.com>
- References: <1992Nov16.194242.10998@adobe.com> <14200035@hpmwga.sr.hp.com>
- Sender: news@sco.com (News admin)
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- > Before you do it yourself get a bid (or 3) from insulation contractors.
- > You might also check w/PG&E and see if there are any rebates. I have
- > found that contractors can do insulation installed for what you can buy
- > the stuff for. Also if there are rebate from Pg&e they probably won't
- > honor them for doityourself.
- > This is my expirirence with contrating a new home. Retrofitting an existing
- > one may be different.
-
- We are PG&E customers, and got a $100 EGIA rebate when we got some
- insulation blown in. In order to get the rebate you had to pick from
- a list of approved contractors to do the installation...which was fine
- since the one that we were going to use was on the list, anyway.
-
- However, it seems like if you think that you can do a good job, and can
- save more than $100 over using a contractor, then you should consider
- doing it yourself. But first find out what a contractor would charge
- just to see if it is worth your while.
-
- Oh, and the rebate offer goes through December of this year, "or until
- the money runs out"...
-
- -Roger
-