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    Top mistakes made by builders

    In a cavity wall building, not butting the insulation very tightly against the blockwork in the cavity, due to snots of mortar, and making the insulation much less effective than it should be. Also leaving small arbitary gaps in the insulation. Not doing enough to make the house airtight -...
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    Eamonn Gilmores comments

    I'm not an economist. Nonetheless, I was a bit upset with Eamonn Gilemores comments that we don't need to make the 6bn savings in our budget. If he were in power, he would want to make fewer cuts. His rationale was to do with the fact that now we have the IMF loan, we don't need to make such...
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    What should we as a nation do to move forward?

    As an individual, you can help the economic situation by working hard, being productive, and contributing to GNP.
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    EU Bailout for dummies

    Just to Tone down the conversation a bit more, why dont the Irish Central bank press a button to print 70 billion ? Can the Irish central bank print money ?
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    Attic and cavity wall insulation top up

    Interesting for a house built in 2006 Did the house pass building regulations ? Did you get a certificate of compliance with the regs from your building professionals I guess if it had passed building regs, you wouldnt need to top up the cavity, there shouldn't be any gap anywhere, There...
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    Gas boiler vokera 15HE tripping circuit breaker

    the domestic fuse board will have MCBs and also may have RCDs. Most boilers wont be protected by an RCD (mine isn't), although every circuit in a house will be protected by one MCB. If it's the MCB (you'll probably have about 8 MCBs) , the problem is that more than the maximum allowed...
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    EU Bailout for dummies

    OK, just to get back on thread again can we agree that DB74 hit the nail on the head ? The EU bailout is nothing more than the government borrowing money at a better rate that they could borrow money from the markets. The downside is that there are conditions which may be enforced, like an...
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    EU Bailout for dummies

    Can someone explain in simple english what the potential EU bailout means......(if it happens) Is it a simple case that the EU will lend money to Ireland at a good interest rate ? Or is it a case that the EU will directly lend money to the Irish banks to keep them solvent (with no impact...
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    Retaining building professionals during build

    Some great advice, thanks I didn't consider that an architect would need to go on a course to get up to speed with the passive house standard. I was thinking architects would automatically know everything about the standard On reflection, this was just me being naive. It's obvious that a...
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    Retaining building professionals during build

    I agree, an architect rolling up his/her sleves is an inappropriate use of their time. That's a good list by RKQ, I shall make note of it. I'm trying to get my head around the process of building a passive house where the average level of quality in a build are simply not good enough, it...
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    Retaining building professionals during build

    I'm sold on the idea of retaining an architect and structural engineer during a self build In an ideal world, it would be great to have an architect and structural engineer on site at all times during a build, to iron out any problems before they happen, to supervise everything in real time...
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    How long to finish extension

    Nobody knows how big you extention is, or how many people you are employing to complete the remaining tasks, or if they are available to do the work, or how many days a week they can work, or if the trades will be working in parallel ? It's impossible for anyone to give an answer to your...
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    What big mistakes did the government make

    I suppose this sums it all up Tax receipts are around the same as they were in 2003, yet public pay and pensions have increased by 17 billion ............ http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/public-pay-pension-bill-has-risen-euro16bn-since-2003-2368677.html I'm trying to understand...
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    What big mistakes did the government make

    With the benifit of hindsight, there were lots of things the government could have done in the years between 2000 and 2007 to avert the economic problems we are in Taking hindsight out of the equation, what were the big mistakes the government made ? What were the policies which were made...
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    21 inch CRT 4:3

    Just to answer my own question. My television is 4:3. Most tv channels broadcast in 16:9 including rte, bbc, itv, sky news My tele does not use letterbox, instead it uses up the whole screen....which means it loses 1/4 of the picture, 1/8th to the left and 1/8th to the right For years...
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    Building regs, space heating requirements

    I've been familiarising myself with the regs for several weeks with a view to building a house in the future One thing I'm very interested in is space heating requirements i.e. 15kw/sq meter/ year as in the passive house standard I can't see anywhere in the building regs where space heating...
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    Computer Science or Mathematics BSc - job prospects?

    I work in IT. I started out by doing a non IT degree, and then a postgrad in computing......that was about 10 years ago. In the first job, people with computer science degree are at a slight advantage.....in the 4 year degree they will have been thrown in the deep with some complicated...
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    Computer Science or Mathematics BSc - job prospects?

    Zoe Id recommend you go on jobsites to check what salary employers are offering in IT and other maths related disciplines......that will give you a good idea I guarantee you, the vast majority of what you learn in a maths degree, you will not use again after graduating. Yeah, it'll still be...
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    21 inch CRT 4:3

    I've a retro TV from 2002 which cost very little, and it still works like new It's a 21 inch crt , 4:3 (not wide screen). It's worth about 10 euros, other people are throwing them out and getting 1080p LCDs and Plasmas The quesion is, when I pick up RTE or BBC, is some of the picture on...
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    ARF or not ?

    Thanks Are you sure it's possible to avoid the 1600 costs ? For my mothers AVC, 5% of everything she pays in from her salary is taken by Zurich......that's the way it has been ever since she set up the AVC years ago Cornmarket told me that Zurich will take 5% of a lump sum payment too...
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