Elouise Lingerie is a shop in Buckden, Cambridgeshire selling high-class ladies lingerie, swimwear and nightwear. In 2008 their manager was considering changing their old gas boiler, which was over ten years old, for a new combi boiler. At the same time she wanted to install a system that turned on the heating only when they needed it. "We had a 24-hour time clock so the heating was still running on Sundays when the shop is not open," she explains. "Staff don't remember to switch off the heating when they go home, and of course it's cold when they come to work on Monday. Sure, we could have installed a seven day clock, but that doesn't handle holidays or other times when the shop is closed," she adds.
HeatingSave's Building Energy Management System was installed at the same time as the new combi boiler. The HeatingSave controller is linked to the shop's PC. The heating pattern diary is set up in advance, with bank holidays and shutdown periods entered into the diary, in much the same way one would use a desk diary.
The manger says the thing she likes most about HeatingSave is the way in which it automatically works out the latest time to switch on the heating each day by using the outside temperature and how warm the building is. Since installing HeatingSave, Elouise Lingerie reckon they have saved around 36.5% off their fuel bill.
The manager is effusive in her praise of HeatingSave:"I can't understand why all shops and offices don't use HeatingSave. There must be thousands of premises in the country that still have their heating blazing away on Public Holidays and days when there's nobody there."