Quick diagnostic
HUF 135,000 + VAT
list price: HUF 190,000 and up + VAT
- Exterior and interior thermal imaging
- Annotated thermal image catalogue
- A–B–C findings list with HUF/season estimates
- 10–15 page PDF, 45-minute walkthrough
Retail · supermarket
Entrance, roof, refrigeration: where does your store lose heat?
In a supermarket heating, ventilation and refrigeration have to be looked at together: waste heat from the display cabinets helps heat the store, while the entrance exchanges air all day. A night-time thermal survey shows what each defect costs per season and what to fix first.
01 / The situation
Where do problems usually sit?
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Entrance and air curtain
Thousands of people walk in. An under-performing air curtain, or a vestibule inner door left open, causes the largest single air exchange, and customers feel it.
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Flat roof
Wet flat-roof insulation loads cooling in summer and heating in winter. The cause of a leak is rarely visible from above, but it often shows on a thermal image.
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Refrigeration and heating together
Waste heat from cabinets and the plant room reduces heating demand, so the value of a defect can only be estimated knowing the whole system.
02 / What we typically find
What we typically find
Typical items in this type of facility. Which of them exist in your building is what the survey shows: we do not promise defects.
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Entrance air curtain, vestibule
Weak airflow, poor setting, an inner door left open. Often cheap to fix, quick to pay back.
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Rear dock door
Missing bottom seal, perimeter gap on the delivery side.
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Shopfront-to-wall junction
Open joints where the glazing meets the solid wall.
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Wet flat roof
Wet insulation patches near drains and roof penetrations.
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Parapet, thermal bridges
A thermal bridge along the roof edge that conducts heat out over a long run.
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Plant room, pipework
Missing pipe insulation, condenser and plant-room surroundings. Here we typically give qualitative observations, not exact figures.
03 / Worked example
What can an item like this be worth? Example, October 2026 prices
The example: Supermarket / retail unit. 50 x 36 m (1,500 m2 sales + 300 m2 back room), 5 m high, 20 C, condensing gas boiler + AHU with heat recovery, vestibule entrance with air curtain, 1 rear dock door. Refrigeration waste heat enters only through the lower 12 C balance temperature. Medium case: Dock-door and staff-door seals faulty, entrance air curtain under-performing, 24 m of shopfront-to-wall junction open, 45 m2 wet flat roof, 40 m parapet thermal bridge.
- Estimated loss per season, medium case
- 760,000 HUF
- Cost of fixing all items
- 1,900,000 HUF
- Payback if only the quick (A) items are fixed
- 8 mo
- Survey price at the pilot rate, + VAT
- 275,000 HUF
Prio.ItemLossFixPayback
A Entrance air curtain under-performing (residual 0.28 -> 0.60) ≈ HUF 170,000/season ≈ HUF 45,000 ≈3 mo
A Shopfront-to-wall junction open (24 m x 3 mm) ≈ HUF 150,000/season ≈ HUF 110,000 ≈9 mo
A Rear dock door: perimeter seals (10.7 m x 6 mm) ≈ HUF 65,000/season ≈ HUF 90,000 ≈17 mo
A Staff door threshold / side gap (5 m x 4 mm) ≈ HUF 19,000/season ≈ HUF 30,000 ≈19 mo
Heating cost of the fault-free baseline: ≈ HUF 7,400,000/season; the defects of the medium case add 9.3%.
Energy price basis: Hungarian business gas, net, 9 October 2026: central 40.4 Ft/kWh, range 32.1–56.9 Ft/kWh. The forward curve implies lower prices in the following years.
Estimate – not a guarantee. Figures are model-based and actual values may differ.
04 / Pilot offer
For the first 10 facilities: pilot prices for the 2026/27 heating season
3D package
HUF 275,000 + VAT
list price: HUF 390,000 and up + VAT
- Everything in the Quick diagnostic
- Interactive 3D heat map in your browser
- Loss breakdown per building element
- Action plan with payback, 60-minute meeting
Limited to the first 10 facilities. Quick diagnostic up to 2,000 m², 3D package up to 2,500 m²; travel within 80 km (free up to 40 km). Orders by 31 January 2027, surveys by 31 March 2027, weather permitting.
Our recommendation
What fits a store?
For a 1,500–2,500 m² store the 3D package gives the most: roof, entrance and rear side in one model, item by item in HUF. For chains we give 10% off for three or more sites.
- Cold store / cellar module: HUF 45,000 + VAT per room (up to 300 m²)
- Electrical cabinet screening: HUF 12,000 per cabinet with a package
What we ask in return
- Written consent to an anonymised case study (sector, size band, region; no name, logo or address). You approve the final text.
- A 30-minute feedback interview, and a follow-up call after six months on which fixes were done.
Same scope and quality as a list-price order. The price does not depend on what you say in the feedback.
05 / How it works
Three steps from quote to fix list
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Step 1: Briefing and quote
We ask about size, heating or cooling system and energy price. You get a fixed written quote.
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Step 2: Night-time survey
We survey at night after closing. Entrance and roof images are taken from outside; for the interior and plant room the store manager accompanies us.
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Step 3: Report and walkthrough
PDF report: for each item the location, likely cause, estimated loss with a range, fix suggestion and priority. Raw files and a walkthrough.
06 / Common questions
What people usually ask
Will it disturb trading?
No. The survey is done at night after closing; the interior needs a short walk-round.
I have several stores. Is one report enough?
Each site gets its own report, and defects are comparable between sites. For three or more sites we give 10% off.
Does this replace an energy performance certificate?
No. That is a statutory document issued by a person authorised to do so. Our survey provides something else: the location and the HUF value of the loss.
07 / Honest limits
What we do not do
- We do not rate refrigeration energy use or cabinet efficiency; we flag only visible thermal differences.
- The cause of a leak cannot be determined from a thermal image alone; we recommend a check before repair.
- Savings materialise only after the fixes are done; we do not guarantee them.
08 / Get a quote
Request a quote for this type of facility
Tell us the type, location and approximate size of the facility. We reply by the next working day at the latest. The request is for business purposes: we serve companies and organisations.