Tag Archives: beehive

Having made some underfloor entrances (UFEs) with solid floors, I thought I’d do the same thing with my mesh floors. There wasn’t a huge amount of difference between the two types other than the need to cut the mesh back … Continue reading →

Crownboards today. I’m still looking for reasonably-priced perspex to use for clear crownboards, but need a few in hand just in case I don’t find any in time. I have plenty of 5.5mm ply and realised that a set of … Continue reading →

At last! I finally finished rebuilding my last roof today (for the moment, at least). Oddly the last one had an aluminium sheet roof covering rather than the more common rusty galvanised steel. This whole process has taken far longer … Continue reading →

On to the last one now. I assembled the sides this afternoon, but need to find something suitable from my scrap pile for the battens inside. Pleasingly for all five roofs I’ve managed to salvage the roof cover and inner … Continue reading →

I can’t say that it was pleasant working outdoors, not even in the relative shelter of the workshop, today. I had to move the car mid-morning and even then it was telling me that the outside temperature was only 5°C. … Continue reading →

Despite the “excitement” of the morning, I was able to get a little done in the workshop today, planing down the timber for the sides of another roof, building it and fitting the internal battens. Didn’t quite get as far … Continue reading →

I collected the kit from my dead-out tree colony this afternoon. As I lifted the roof off its sides fell off. It all felt a bit Laurel and Hardy 😀 I’d used some fairly tired hive parts though as the … Continue reading →

Not really a repair, more a complete rebuild given that the metal cover and the sheet of plywood underneath it were the only things that were worth keeping, but this morning I finished gluing/nailing it all together so now there’s … Continue reading →

This evening I finished gluing together the new sides of the first of four beehive roofs that I have to repair. It doesn’t look too bad I think, considering the lump of scrap that I started with. Hopefully tomorrow I … Continue reading →