This is the hotel's way of giving something back to the local community. When they bought the hotel, the pool was one of the best for miles around (mainly due to the fact the nearest pool is a 30 mile round trip). Now it's merely a pool. There are a few regulars who come in at 6.59am, hang around reception until dead on 7am, before going in for a dip. OK, as I've said the next pool is a 30 mile round trip away, but this pool is hardly the best.
I mentioned previously that, when I started at this hotel, the boiler died and left the pool in a rather cold state. A quick call to the engineering department* soon sorted that out. Once the boiler was fixed and the system was switched back on again, the machine which regulates the amount of chlorine to be pumped into the water decided, at that point, to take an overdose. Overnight, it pumped one thousand litres of chlorine into the pool. The "Leisure Staff" (I think, personally, they take that term too loosely at times) forgot to check the pH levels of the water during the day. When the other night manager checked it, some twenty-four hours after the boilers had been switched back on, the pH levels were off the scale. Nobody had bothered to check the chlorine box to see if it was; a) switched on or b) distributing the correct ratio of chlorine:water. The top dogs were called, at considerable expense for the company, to sort out the problem. A short while later, everything was back to normal.
Until this morning.
The main generator, which supplies the power for the pool and regulates the temperature of the water and air in the leisure centre is a little bit off. Normally the water temperature sits at around the 30 mark, when I checked it last night, it was double this at bang-on 60.0
"That sounds lovely and warm," thinks I. So I walk over to the edge of the pool and plunge my hand into the water. Wrong, the water is barely tepid. If that's 60 degrees, then the UK must be constantly suffering a heatwave. Last night, the pool was constantly pumping in the chlorine again, but the results on the tests this morning showed no change.
Off tonight, but back to the madness on Friday. I can't see this job lasting much longer, to be honest. Not with so many other tempting positions out there.
* - A retired gent with a hammer and scary fascination of lightbulbs, especially energy-saving ones.
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It sounds like this place could do with being demolished and having someone start again.
Is it the machines which regulate the temperature/pH which you're getting the readings from?
I'd rather they just demolished it and left it like that.
The main machine shows the air and water temperature, but the pH and two other readings are done manually. There is a machine to do this...
...but it's broken.
Now there's a surprise :)
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