only in Californicate! grin when a shop gives ya an "estimate", get it in writing so it's a legally binding contract - if the price gets doubled after some irreversible works gets done and you don't have it in writing, your SOL - try the "tell the world" threat and see if it gets back to the original - but you did say about a couple places in the last post

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot