Removing lower hive body in winter

[reedyfork]

In my switch to an all-medium setup, I have one last remaining deep hive body (on the bottom) that I need to remove and retire. My plan was to wait until this winter when they were generally broodless and the cluster had moved up into the two mediums above it, and then pull off that bottom deep. A secondary benefit would be shrinking their space for the remainder of the winter into the two mediums...

Any flaws to that strategy, provided I do it on a decently warm day? I was targeting the Dec 21 timeframe when I would be doing my OAV treatments.

[Jacobs]

Seems like a reasonable plan to me--as long as the bees cooperate and don't stay down in the hive.

[Linda]

Too funny, I am going from all mediums to adding deep bodies. Only one hive accommodated my plan this summer.

[frank]

I am using 8-frame mediums only including nucs. Though there are more frames to go through when doing an inspection, I like the ease of swapping frames between brood boxes and supers and there is only one type of frame to purchase.