Steamy!!

Take an icy cold changing room in the middle of winter. Throw in a couple of football teams after a hard fought game, and hose them down with steaming hot water. After they are de-mudded and scrubbed up, turf them out again, for the last one of them to turn off the light – and the ventilators – and watch the fuggy clouds condense on the thin, uninsulated, concrete block walls. That’s a recipe for disaster. And that’s what we have in the changing rooms on the Memorial ground.

That’s all going to change, though, as we are in the process of replacing the simple extractor fans with state-of-the-art heat recovery extractors. They don’t just extract the stale and muggy air from the rooms whilst they are occupied, but can sense the level of moisture content in the air, and switch the fans on to deal with it. They are designed to reduce condensation, and its after-effects – incipient damp patches causing mould and rot. It doesn’t smell nice, either.

The heat recovery extractors have been purchased from Kair, (tech details here) specialists in heating and ventilation equipment, as part of the maintenance programme for the Memorial Ground by Williton Parish Council who are Trustees of the ground. We are also looking to do some major refurbishment of the tractor shed over the next year, or to replace it altogether with a new one.

DC