Loft Insulation

[bystander]

You've never heard of insultion-tape?

[bystander]

[Christian McArdle]

Wrong, I'm afraid.

Christian.

[PoP]

I did an OU course several years ago and the end result would have been a BA. Has this changed?

PoP

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[Christian McArdle]

Yes. The preponderance of scientific, engineering or arts units determines if the result is a BA, BSc or BEng. There are also named degrees that require you to complete specific named courses. You can get a BA (Honours) History if you take A220, A221, AA312, AA303 and a few other options, for example.

Christian.

[PoP]

Okay, thanks for that. I started a BA course in the early 80's - did one year (M101), figured it was too hard investing the amount of time required and trying to build a career at the same time.

Now that the career is a fond memory maybe I should think again.....wonder what the yearly fee is? I seem to recall it was about £600 20 years ago.

PoP

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[Christian McArdle]

There is no yearly fee. Each course has a cost which varies with the resources required to teach and examine it. Arts courses are cheaper than science ones. Cost compare very favourably with normal universities last time I looked.

Christian.

[stuart noble]

When I was trying to get IT work, all I got offered was wallpapering. Now that I'm an odd job man people have started asking me to do Access databases. Weird eh? I'm currently doing one for a CORGI fitter so I'll make damned sure I overcharge him and leave lots of loose ends so that he can leave me ansaphone messages that I won't reply to.

[PoP]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:33:04 -0000, "stuart noble" databases. Weird eh?

IT jobs were as common as rocking horse pooh last year. It seems to be picking up again now - I am getting a constant stream of IT agencies asking if I'm available to take on work.

I really don't want to go back to sitting behind a keyboard 5 days a week. I may be earning a lot less than I was, but my quality of life has improved substantially.

PoP

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[Will]

I noted that the negative loss (ie gain) from upstairs to downstairs via the floor/ceiling, whilst initially noted, then became shown as an actual loss:-

^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^

So this becomes = 5279 W

And this = 11.6Kw

Now 56%

Just for accuracy's sake!

[Andy Hall]

Most of the radiator manufacturer calculator programs deal with internal losses but not internal gains - they ignore them.

Generally though, the amount is small unless one has deliberately large temperature differences between rooms.

For radiator sizing purposes it is probably better to ignore that heat gain happens anyway and go for a more conservative approach. Of course the radiator manufacturers sell a larger radiator as well. Perhaps that's why they take this approach to the calculations.

.andy

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[Neil Jones]

I noticed that after I posted but I followed Andrew Gilligan's example and kept quiet until after the enquiry :-)

[IMM]

Did you get the main bits wrong too?

[Neil Jones]

downstairs

Which main bits?

[IMM]

The bits which matter, just like Gilligan. Gilligan has now been banished to an Island.

[Neil Jones]

In that case, no.

[IMM]

Then you have no need to resign. The fat slob should have been sacked.

[Neil Jones]

sacked.

That's handy - I'll tell my boss...

[IMM]

Keep it above board, like Blair did, and no problems.

[PoP]

When can we expect your resignation? ;)

PoP

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