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Saxondale

Saxondale

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Compressing it will reduce its effectiveness because it's all about the air pockets and compressing the insulation compresses the air pockets.

This study says compression from 270mm down to 100mm roughly halves the effectiveness

www.npl.co.uk/news/squashed-loft-insulation-50-per-cent-less-effective

The risers will be worth the cost over a long enough time period. How quick the payback period is depends on how much compression you're planning to do.

Cheers The Moose. I probably will get the risers, i just resent paying loads of money for some bits of moulded plastic.

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Buce

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Can anyone recommend somewhere in Leicester where I can buy a suit? I'm not a suit kind of guy, and it'll only see the light of day for funerals and weddings, so I'm not looking for something wildly expensive, but neither do I want something that looks 'cheap'.

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Rincewind

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I got  mine from a charity shop for a tenner. It had a London taylor label and I expect taylor made. It was from a shop on Granby Street and they  said the shop next door donates end of range stockT

Obviously I was lucky on this occasion but like you Buce I will only wear it on the odd occasion and do not jet off overseas on business trips twice a week in which case only the best you can afford will do.

Anyway I do not mix with the crowd that would examine the quality of a suit or judge a person on that criteria.

I am off now to meet an unsavory lot down at the Kings for a night of poker.  :)

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Jon the Hat

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I got  mine from a charity shop for a tenner. It had a London taylor label and I expect taylor made. It was from a shop on Granby Street and they  said the shop next door donates end of range stockT

Obviously I was lucky on this occasion but like you Buce I will only wear it on the odd occasion and do not jet off overseas on business trips twice a week in which case only the best you can afford will do.

Anyway I do not mix with the crowd that would examine the quality of a suit or judge a person on that criteria.

I am off now to meet an unsavory lot down at the Kings for a night of poker.  :)

 

I think you have missed the point of a tailored suit Ken.  They are never end of range, because they are made to order.

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sphericalfox

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He's expecting you to be offended by him implying you're slightly rotund. Jacamo make clothes for big people.

 

I've got a nice new Ben Sherman three-piece flannel suit. Outrageously chav but I look adorable.  :blush:

 

I'm not expecting him to be offended at all. When Jacamo began first advertising the fella they used looked exactly like Matt. I made that joke then, and hoped it was a runner. He's just playing coy.

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Not necessarily the best place for careers advice, but I'm at a bit of a dead end and fairly bogged down by work to properly look into uni degrees.

 

I study history, politics, German and maths at A-level, currently in year 12. Don't want to do anything in maths, history degree doesn't interest me, politics does interest me but I don't want to be a politician really and have been told I'm too nice for PPE  lol  German is a language I want to become fluent in, but a pure language degree isn't really something I want to do. Really in the future I'd like to be working in something like the Foreign Office, using language skills and political knowledge to work for the government, but not as a politician. However that is just one fairly narrow aspiration and I'm lost as to what else to really look into. Any suggestions on what sort of uni courses would be good to be looking into, or what routes there could potentially be into what I want to do?

 

Use next summer to research it all properly and find what actually interests you, as long as you do something you actually like at a very good uni then it doesn't really matter much what you study (Oxbridge, LSE, UCL, Imperial and Warwick leaves pretty much anything open to you, Nottingham, Bristol, Durham, Bath etc are the next best). 

The Foreign Office is ridiculously hard to get into, having a language is extremely useful but you don't have to do it as a language and most unis offer free language courses anyway. My roommate went to an event for Foreign Office careers as that what he came with an interest in doing and they said the languages they look for most are French, Arabic, Mandarin and Farsi but yeah German, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese etc are obviously good as well. 

 

If you were to do PPE then make sure you actually want to do all three subjects, eventhough most places you drop one after the first year. I do Government and Econ at LSE and my I can't stand the module I do on Political Theory, basically it's just the history of political philosophy and the earlier stuff in particular is really of no interest. It's made me realise how much of a struggle I'd have found the philosophy element of PPE because I don't enjoy it. Thankfully as it's 1st year it doesn't matter, only my top 3 modules count and they're average out to make up 1/9 of my final degree so as long as I don't fail it then it's fine. It's still quite doable being as I scraped a 2.1 in my first essay, despite not doing any of the reading and cobbling together an essay at the last minute using google.

 

You don't even begin to realise all the things you can do and all the avenues open to you. Just looking on my CareersHub at some summer internships and there's a load of things I hadn't thought about or different firm specialisations that I didn't even know about, I guess uni is about discovering a whole host of different things in everything anyway. I've realised myself that I'd rather do Asset Management than the Corporate Finance (Mergers and Acquisitions) aspect of banking which I came with the intention of applying for. Opening my eyes to all the aspects of Consulting has also changed things a bit. I mean they're ridiculously competitive still so we'll see what actually happens.

 

All unis have different niche courses that you won't find out about tim you start delving deeper but as has been mentioned things like IR or a joint honours with a language might be of interest, similarly course structures are different so you might actually really like a History course at a couple of unis despite thinking you don't want to do history

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