My school has BOTH a central timer/programmer AND thermostatic radiator valves – surely I can achieve everything a HouseHeat system can give me without needing to install HouseHeat?
Installing a HouseHeat system will in most cases still reduce your energy consumption and save you money on your heating bills! If your boiler switches off fully at night, the school can become uncomfortably cold during the night hours. Heating and energy experts often say that if the heating system is shut off completely or reduced to a very low level, it can actually take more energy to warm the school up again than if the heating system is simply turned down a few degrees. This is because the walls, floors and other structures in a building become ‘cold-soaked’ and need a lot of heat energy to warm up again. The critical temperature is typically around 14 degrees Celsius. Below that temperature, it will take more energy to warm up the cold heating system and cold premises than if the heating system had been running continuously. So switching the boiler off completely at night may save you very little. A HouseHeat system in comparison allows you to automatically turn the thermostat d
