Hivernage

Brian was up early this morning. He left me in bed with a cup of tea, which was a very relaxing start to the day. It was all a bit grey and cold, but the ‘pool man‘ was finally coming to close the pool for winter, so he wanted to go and make sure everything was ready for him. It did feel quite late to be doing it, certainly later than we’d closed it before, but they seemed to prefer to keep it open and cleaned through Autumn until the temperature had dropped sufficiently.

Brian had readied all the floats, and given everything a final clean before the process of wintering the pool began. Firstly the ‘hivernage’ chemicals were added, the pump was decommissioned and drained, and the floats were linked across the pool. This all needed to happen to prepare it against the sub zero temperatures that we would often experience between December and February.

Finally all was completed and the winter cover was rolled on. To think we were sitting up here in t-shirts only two weeks ago.